On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 02:07:08PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > William K Helbig Jr wrote: > >Firstly a minor typo in the third paragraph of the About Firmware section of > >Chapter 3 in the SVN version of the BLFS book. The line reads “firmware > >files > >can be accessed vau wget”. That probably should be ”firmware files can be > >accessed via wget”. > > I'll update that at the next commit. > > >Next a comment/question about Firmware for ATI video chips. The method > >shown in > >this chapter shows making the radeon driver a module but when I do this then > >boot the resulting system two things happen. First, no Penguins! Second, and > >more importantly, the login prompt does not appear until I hit the enter key. > >The system seems to work properly otherwise, meaning I have an active > >framebuffer device that I can write to and see a response. When the firmware > >is > >built into the kernel everything functions as expected. > > > >The nuts and bolts of my system: > > LFS-systemd 7.7 > > AMD A10-7850K APU > > Kaveri [Radeon R7 200 Series] > > Oland XT [Radeon HD 8670 / R7 250] An APU (KAveri) plus a separate video card (Oland XT) ?
> > > >The question is, Since this behavior is not a show stopper is it a problem I > >need to be concerned about, or is it just the way things want to work? > > I don't have any ATI video cards so I can't really help there. Perhaps Ken > may have some ideas. > > -- Bruce > Just finished building all of Xorg (BLFS-style instead of my normal reduced build) using gcc-5, I'm a little short of resources here for looking things up (only one xterm, trying twm). For the login prompt, I assume that is something to do with systemd and I can't help - AFAICS it cannot know when the kernel has loaded the video firmware, but I can see that it might theoretically need to load some other firmware, e.g. for the network, and perhaps it is the total time to find and load which causes the problem. That seems unlikely, but I've no real idea. For the lack of penguins - yes, the A10-7850K needs a _lot_ of firmware, and by the time that has loaded they tend to have disappeared as the screen scrolled up. Even with the firmware built into the kernel, the penguins don't hang around for long. Building the firmware in should still be covered in the Xorg ATI driver in BLFS, but you seem to have covered that. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
