On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > Did the cursor work adequately on 2.6 in the past ?
> >
> Never. But I never used 2.6 much.
>
> > Which version of 2.6 are you now using, and which was your previous
> > working version ?
>
> 2.6.12.1.
>
> 2.6.0, 2.6.9, & 2.6.10 all showed the same thing.
>
So, this isn't a regression within 2.6.
> Next bit of spare time I'll stick the framebuffer back in. I have
> memories that
> 1. The radeon card responds strangely to the radeon module.
> 2. I have downgraded the monitor to a cheap/nasty type which may
> not do what the previous one did.
Perhaps try CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR and CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS with
CONFIG_FB_RADEON and CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C and make sure any other
framebuffers are not set. Apart from some junk in the early visual
output up to maybe 2.6.7, and a missing penguin around 2.6.9 or 2.6.10,
the radeon has worked well here as a console framebuffer during 2.6.
In xorg.conf, I use
Driver "radeon"
(not "ati", not "fb")
You may find that the bootargs I quoted for the radeon are wrong -
another box of mine uses video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - they both seem to
give me a 128x48 framebuffer console, at least when I don't use a
graphical login.
Ken
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