Regression: radeon x600 text console font not restored

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 08:33:19 PDT 2005


On 9/12/05, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 12.09.2005, 10:26 -0400 schrieb Alex Deucher:
> > On 9/12/05, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > I am pretty sure, the culprit is the WITH_VGAHW change from Aug 26. The
> > > modular build doesn't define that macro yet, so the VGA font restore is
> > > disabled at compile time. Since the vgahw module seems to be compiled
> > > unconditionally in the modular build, it's probably safe to define
> > > WITH_VGAHW unconditionally. I'm just not sure where would be the best
> > > place. I've added -DWITH_VGAHW to AM_CFLAGS
> > > in .../xf86-video-ati/src/Makefile.am and that fixes the problem for me.
> > >
> >
> > I just installed the monolith from cvs on my PC and text restoration
> > is flakey now as well for me (vga console).
> 
> Did you regenerate the Makefiles? Make sure that radeon_driver.c is
> compiled with with -DWITH_VGAHW on the gcc command line. Does the
> Xorg.0.log contain any messages about loading the vgahw module?
> 

I suspect that may be the problem.  I'll double check tonight.

Alex

> >
> > Alex
> 
> Regards,
>   Felix
> 
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