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post #1 of 3
5/28/03 at 10:10am
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Has anyone gotten the boot logo to work with a ati readon 9000 mobility? I can't seem to get the thing to appear. Here is my .config stuff...

CONFIG_MTRR=y

#
# Console drivers
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
#
# Frame-buffer support
#
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB_LOGO_GENTOO=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y


(Have tried CONFIG_FB_RADEON=n also)

Is there something I'm missing or something else in my .config that could be interferring? On my old laptop I didn't need anything in my grub.conf for it to work so I do not have anything special in my current one.

I also notice that if I add vga=ask to my grub.conf and do a scan when prompted all I get is crappy resolutions (unlike my old laptop which BTW had a nvidia card).

I have a sager 8887 w/ P4-HT 3.06GHz 1G RAM
ati readon 9000 mobility R250 and I'm using the curent ati-drivers (2.9.12 (13/05-2003)) without any issues. For you Gentooers I'm using the latest gentoo-sources...kernel 2.4.20

thx for the help,
wally
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post #2 of 3
5/28/03 at 12:48pm
Before you try to get the logo to work, see if you can put in vga=775 instead of vga=ask. You may even want to make a new entry in grub.conf for testing so you will have something to fall back on. You should get a console at 1280x1024. This will determine if you have FB working correctly at all. In my kernel config I have VESA compiled in and Radeon compiled as a module. I believe Radeon support is still experimental for the mobile chipset, but VESA works great. This is for 2.4.21-rc2, but I have been using the same config since 2.4.20 and it has always worked. I'll attempt to get the bootsplash to work later and let you know if I run into anything weird.
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post #3 of 3
5/28/03 at 3:30pm
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thx

setting the radeon driver to module worked. both vga=775 and boot logo work now. Time to try out the bootsplash!

wally
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