[ltp] radeon framebuffer

[mukesh agrawal]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Joel Ebel wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with the radeon framebuffer?  I'm trying it
> on my T40 (2373-92U) with a radeon 9000.  I'm using 2.4.21-ac1 which has
> the right PCI ID's in it for this device.  It loads up fine, and runs
> pretty well, but there is an annoying flicker every few seconds,
> although the interval is irregular.  Any ideas why this happens?
> Anyhting I can do?  I may just have to go back to using the vesa
> framebuffer.  The VESA framebuffer works, but it is really slow, so I
> wanted to investigate the radeon framebuffer.  I haven't messed much
> with power management.  Are there any other problems with
> suspend/resume, etc. with the radeon framebuffer others have noticed?


I tried radeonfb (kernel 2.4.21-ac2) on a 2373-58U (radeon 9000, 32 MB,
1400x1050). Didn't notice the flicker, but only played with it for a few
minutes. Seems to have trouble with suspend/resume (display stays black,
with backlight on, after resuming).