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On Dec 3, 2007 9:59 PM, Hemmann, Volker Armin < |
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volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007, Andrey Vul wrote: |
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> > I finally got X to work with fglrx and RTFMing said that radeonfb was |
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> > crashing my X. My question is why did radeonfb mess up X and fglrx? |
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> > If this is strictly kernel-related, I'll send this email to lkml. |
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> because two different drivers driving the same hardware never mixes. |
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> Is that hard to understand? |
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> radeonfb f*s around with the hardware behind the X drivers back and the X |
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> driver f*s around behind radeonfb's back. Both don't know what the other |
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> one |
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> does. Result: crash. |
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> That is not a kernel problem. This is a 'two drivers access the same |
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> hardware' |
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> problem. |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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And the solution is to use some generic framebuffer driver, like vesafb-tng |
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or vga. |
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- Mark Shields |
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