X Server want not start

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Mon Nov 19 03:20:58 PST 2012


On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 12:10 +0100, Silvio Siefke wrote: 
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:41:56 +0000 (UTC)
> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh at gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > If the kernel is configured correctly, "cat /proc/fb" should return
> > "0 radeondrmfb".
> 
> gentoo-desk linux # cat /proc/fb
> 0 ATI Radeon 4966

That looks like radeonfb, which conflicts with radeon KMS. You can
disable it at runtime by passing video=radeonfb:off on the kernel
command line, or at build time by disabling CONFIG_FB_RADEON.


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