radeonfb kernel switch no longer works?

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Thu Aug 11 14:47:55 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 15:11 -0400, sean wrote:
> On amd64 with radeon 8500, dmesg:
> 
> 
> Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda5 
> video=radeonfb:1024x768-32 at 100)
> Linux version 2.6.12-1.1437_FC5 
> (bhcompile at crowe.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.0.1 
> 20050720 (Red Hat 4.0.1-4)) #1 SMP Mon
> Jul 25 18:21:05 EDT 2005
> .............
> 
> This used to give console output at 1024x768. Even a couple 
> of weeks ago, maybe. Now I get a vga display.
> 
> Have the kernel switches changed?
> 
> sean

You have to load the module, as well, but as far as I know that's always
been true.

-- 
        Peter




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