Xorg 7.0 and radeonfb - a no-go?

[Jens Mayer]

Hi all,

recently I upgraded from the monolithic Xorg 6.8.2 build to Xorg 7.0, running 
Gentoo GNU/Linux and using it's masked ebuilds.

While Xorg 6.8.2 worked rock solid in combination with the kernel's radeonfb 
module for framebuffered virtual terminals, 7.0 doesn't - I get hard lockups 
after a while, sometimes directly after starting X, sometimes a few minutes 
later. 

Disabling radeonfb or using vesafb-tng solves this problem, but leads to slow 
or low resolution VTs. Is there something to take care of to have both 
running simultaneous, or is this not possible at the moment? 

I'm talking about the open source "radeon" driver with no DRM enabled. Kernel 
is 2.6.14 with swsusp2 patch 2.2-rc14 running on a Thinkpad T41p (ATI Radeon 
FireGL T2), most recent BIOS version.

Kind regards,
Jens

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