https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27502
--- Comment #7 from Alex Deucher <ag...@yahoo.com> 2010-04-06 18:10:31 PDT --- (In reply to comment #6) > Based on Michael's comments, it looks like radeonfb and radeon can live > side-by-side, and radeonfb is needed for console access: > > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-May/000814.html before KMS, the drm coexisted with kernel fb driver since it didn't provide an fb interface itself. Now the drm is a real driver. > > I'd rather not blacklist radeonfb and loose console. > > Does the KMS support in 2.6.32's radeon driver allow console access without > radeonfb, and if so, is there anything special I need to do to use it? The drm provides a kernel fb interface for the console just like radeonfb. So it's a replacement for radeonfb and then some. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
