Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Radeon 9000 on a linux 2.4.18 kernel.

[Ani J. <aj...@un...>]

Try patching your 2.4.18 with

http://gate.crashing.org/~ajoshi/radeonfb-0.1.6.diff.gz

(I forget which kernel I made this diff against, but it shouldn't complain
much.)


ani



On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

> Hello, ...
>
> I am trying to use a Radeon 9000 on my pegasos board, and had the same
> success with it as with the matrox millenium II i used previously. Well,
> it is even worse, since radeonfb doesn't even output a bit in the boot
> log.
>
> After a bit of thinking, i realize that this is quite normal, sine i
> have to use a 2.4.18 kernel, which knows nothing of the Radeon 9000,
> since it did not exist at that time.
>
> So, my questions are :
>
>   1) is it ok to just add the Radeon 9000 pci ids and whatever to the
>   2.4.28 kernel and hope it works. (Maybe not, but then the Radeon 9000
>   and the Radeon 8500 are supposed to be really similar).
>
>   2) Does anyone know how to check the pci ids of such a card from OF ?
>
>   3) Are the 2.5.x kernel working on powerpc, and if yes, is the
>   radeonfb driver ported ?
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.NET email is sponsored by:
> SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See!
> http://www.vasoftware.com
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-fbdev-devel mailing list
> Lin...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-fbdev-devel
>