Why did fbdev replace radeon in xorg.conf?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sun Aug 27 19:40:12 UTC 2006


Clyde E. Kunkel (clydekunkel7734 at cox.net) said: 
> Wow, did a rawhide update today catching up two days worth and on reboot 
> got a double blurred screen at what looked like 640x320 resolution.  On 
> an alternate terminal looked at xorg.conf and saw that in the device 
> section that radeon had been replaced by fbdev.  Fixed and restarted X 
> and all was well.
> 
> What changed this?  Will file a bz, but against what?  There was no 
> mention of an xorg.conf change during the update and a review of the 
> yum.log doesn't show anything except several mesa component updates and 
> compiz update.  Would one of those change xorg.conf?

Start with kudzu, we can go from there. What arch, hardware, etc?

Bill




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