Re: Radeon 9600 + 3.14 hang (black screen)

[Robert Fendt <rmfendt at web dot de>]

And thus spake Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net>
Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:05:30 +0200:

> Robert Fendt wrote:
> > Ok, I adapted my lunch schedule a bit and got the dmesg output (without
> > ChipID this time...). Long story short: yes, something causes an oops:
>
> I see you have vesafb loaded. I'd try without that first.
>
> If that doesn't help, I suspect a problem with the compiler you've used 
> to build the module, either a plain old bug or a version mismatch that 
> causes (possibly unexpected) ABI changes. Unfortunately the first lines 
> of your dmesg output got cut off so I can't tell which compiler was used 
> to build the kernel.
>
> Hmmm... is your kernel built with CONFIG_REGPARM=y? I haven't tried that 
> with kernel 2.6.7 and later and fglrx 3.12 and later.

The kernel was built with the same options as 2.6.8-1-k7, but with DRM
disabled. The compiler used for compiling both kernel and fglrx DRM module
was the current GCC 3.3 in SID, i.e., 3.3.5. 

As far as I can see, REGPARM is disabled in the kernel.

Regards,
Robert