rawhide report: 20050912 changes

[Mike Chambers]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 15:40 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:16 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> 
> > When I boot with the kernels 1547 or 1549 and I get to the "Initializing 
> > Hardware" bit the display vanishes after "audio" gets printed and my 
> > monitor tells me that the frequency is out of range. The machine then 
> > continues to boot normaly an as soon as XOrg comes up everything works 
> > fine. When I shut down the machine again and it goes back to text mode I 
> > get the signal frequency out of range error by my monitor again.
> > Kernel 1530 did not show this behaviour (but does no longer work for me 
> > since USB and network devices no longer work after the latest rawhide updates).
> 
> Yep, same thing seen here.  I believe it has been mentioned on the
> beta-list (I brought this up, although not the out of frequency part but
> could be related), and might be due to kernel fb modules being
> loaded/unloaded, which Bill Nottingham says due to initscripts/whatever
> loading them and shouldn't.
> 
> Maybe Bill or DaveJ will chime in about it.
> 
> BTW, this is on a fairly less than year old machine, running PIV 2.8Ghz
> with ATI Radeon 9200 along with KDS 9 series monitor.

Here is what I found in dmesg taht might be of some help regarding the
radeonfb being loaded and causing the frequency out of range and
whatever else problem?

radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=275.00 Mhz,
System=275.00 MHz

I checked and radeonfb does seem to be blacklisted in
the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file.

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Everything is always harder, before it's easier!