radeonfb and xf86-video-ati 6.7.192

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/18/07, Jan Willies <jan at willies.info> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just switched to radeonfb because that gives me a nice 1280x800
> resolution while booting but I'm having trouble to startx afterwards.
> I'm with 2.6.22.6 and xorg-7.3 currently, my card is a RS480/XPress 200M.
>
> With those two options in menuconfig enabled, I have weird fullscreen
> color switches from white, black, red, green to blue. The system doesn't
> respond on keyboard/mouse anymore and I can only power it off by a sleep
> 2m && reboot workaround while starting X from another console.
>
> [X]     DDC/I2C for ATI Radeon support
> [X]     Support for backlight control
>
> logs:
> nothing special, see http://pastebin.archlinux.org/14715
>
>
> Without those options enabled but with kernel command line
> video=radeonfb:1280x800 I can startx and even move my cursor around (a
> watch on a black background). However, it doesn't go further, no xfce
> showing up.
>
> logs:
> mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
> tossed event which came in late
> mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
> tossed event which came in late
> [...]
>
> Won't the radeon driver work with radeonfb?

mixing the two (especially on XPRESS chips) is generally a recipe for failure.

Alex