Greetings Folks! We have been hearing a lot lately about all the work on the radeonHD driver, but has any work been done on a kernel driver for better console output? From my experience, the console support has been atrocious. My X1950 card frequently produces garbled output and flickering before X kicks in and I can't get a resolution above 1280x1024. I would really like to see reliable support widescreen resolutions ideally 1920x1200. Is there any progress being made in this area and can we expect any working solutions in the near future?
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i have no problems on x1300 with vesafb. although the fonts are jagged (or blocky, whatever the right word is) when i use anything less than 1280x1024
vesafb-tng and svgalib doesn't work though :/ maybe when modesetting gets fully explored we'll see something decent in a form of a working kernel fb driver.
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Unfortunately, the uvesafb isn't much better for me. I have tried using it over the past few days, and I already got a boot screen once which had 2/3 of the screen covered with garbled characters and the remaining part filled with red color. Also, I am still stuck on a max res of 1280x1024. Sigh
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Originally posted by pawstar View PostGreetings Folks! We have been hearing a lot lately about all the work on the radeonHD driver, but has any work been done on a kernel driver for better console output? From my experience, the console support has been atrocious. My X1950 card frequently produces garbled output and flickering before X kicks in and I can't get a resolution above 1280x1024. I would really like to see reliable support widescreen resolutions ideally 1920x1200. Is there any progress being made in this area and can we expect any working solutions in the near future?
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