Comment 6 for bug 949288

I've made bugs that request radeonfb be built in (bug 779110) and bugs that request radeonfb NOT be built in (bug 596515) duplicates of this one. These are obviously opposing bugs, but this bug is about finding a setup that everybody is happy with.

From comments in bug 779110 it seems I have not made the intentions of this bug report very clear. As the title suggests the most imortant request is to build back in the ATI and radeon framebuffers. Building back in these framebuffers fixes suspend, lack of tty terminals and allows machines with rage 128 cards to actually use the r128 driver (unlike other architectures, for powerpc it expects the framebuffer to be there).

I've requested KMS to be on by default although the presence of radeonfb will stop this from working (bug 596515). It is very easy to turn off radeonfb so I don't see this as a problem. From kernels that have KMS turned on by default (e.g. lucid) it seems this solves a race issue when you do want to use it and this is why I have requested it. It will not have any effect in 12.04 until you turn off radeonfb.

Finally, the strange splash colours that I describe in the above comments are similar to those described in bug 564471 and so I don't want this bug to be distracted by them.