Fred Derf Veteran Posted April 25, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 25, 2004 For those that have been following this forum for a while... I had problems with vga=791 not working with 2.6.1, 2.6.3, 2.6.4 but it seems to be finally fixed with 2.6.5-1 I still have the minor issue of the mouse not responding for a few seconds after X loads. On some previous 2.6.x kernels I would lose the mouse entirely but I haven't been using 2.6.5-1 long enough to know if that will happen here. This does not happen in 2.4.25. Sound and everything else works too (I had lost the sound after one of my own self-compiled kernels). My current 2.6.5-1 kernel is using a Debian precompiled image for 686. My video card is an ATI Radeon 9000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 tadaaaa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 interesting. vga=791 has worked for me with all 2.6.x kernels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted April 26, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2004 interesting. vga=791 has worked for me with all 2.6.x kernels. It must be a bug with the Radeon 9000 then because I tried recompiling my own kernel with video overlay on and off. It seemed to be magically fixed in 2.6.5-1 for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 It must be a bug with the Radeon 9000 then because I tried recompiling my own kernel with video overlay on and off. It seemed to be magically fixed in 2.6.5-1 for me. Maybe it is the radeon 9000. Did you try vesa vga? I have a radeon mobility 7500 and while the radeon framebuffer does work, the vesa is much more stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted April 26, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2004 Maybe it is the radeon 9000. Did you try vesa vga? I have a radeon mobility 7500 and while the radeon framebuffer does work, the vesa is much more stable. Yea, I said video overlay but I probably meant framebuffer support. No, I didn't try vesa vga because that mode is usually not optimed for the chipset. I'd rather have ugly text in text-only mode than lower performance in GUI mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 mouse not responding when x loads, do you have dma enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted April 26, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2004 mouse not responding when x loads, do you have dma enabled? Hard disk DMA? It is enabled in the BIOS. I do get a DMA warning when Linux boots but I think that has to do with a CD-ROM drive that isn't DMA enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Yea, I said video overlay but I probably meant framebuffer support.No, I didn't try vesa vga because that mode is usually not optimed for the chipset. I'd rather have ugly text in text-only mode than lower performance in GUI mode. The framebuffer for the console has nothing to do with the acceleration in X. I use vesa in the console and I have full drm with radeon in X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Hard disk DMA? It is enabled in the BIOS. I do get a DMA warning when Linux boots but I think that has to do with a CD-ROM drive that isn't DMA enabled. yea harddisk dma, check hdparm /dev/hdX, if its not enabled you may need to compile the correct mobo chipset in your kernel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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