Why did fbdev replace radeon in xorg.conf?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 28 01:33:27 UTC 2006


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> Clyde E. Kunkel (clydekunkel7734 at cox.net) said: 
> > Wow, did a rawhide update today catching up two days worth and on reboot 
> > got a double blurred screen at what looked like 640x320 resolution.  On 
> > an alternate terminal looked at xorg.conf and saw that in the device 
> > section that radeon had been replaced by fbdev.  Fixed and restarted X 
> > and all was well.
> > 
> > What changed this?  Will file a bz, but against what?  There was no 
> > mention of an xorg.conf change during the update and a review of the 
> > yum.log doesn't show anything except several mesa component updates and 
> > compiz update.  Would one of those change xorg.conf?
> 
> Start with kudzu, we can go from there. What arch, hardware, etc?

In fact, I think I see why this may be happening. Will attempt to
get a fix in for tomorrow.

Bill




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