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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 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 hardware' |
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problem. |
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