Fedora Core 4 Test Update: udev-071-0.FC4.1

Kazutoshi Morioka morioka at at.wakwak.com
Thu Jan 26 01:59:29 UTC 2006


In order to use vesafb instead of radeonfb, I added kernel boot parameter
vga=0x301, and this problem was gone.

I also found that Matrox G450 which uses matroxfb shows same problem,
and workarounded with vga=0x301 too.

> New udev-071-0.FC4.1 breaks gdm login screen for PC with ATI Radeon.
> Many white and black vertical lines displayed whole screen.
> When I switch console to 1 and back to 7, login screen is displayed fine.
> It seems related to framebuffer console?
>
> I have two Radeon PC, one is laptop which has Radeon Mobility U1,
> another box has Radeon 7000/VE AGP card.
> Both of them shows same problem.
> The kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 and new udev show this problem too.
> Rawhide or FC5T2 do not show this problem.





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