From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: I can't find any framebuffer/bootsplash for ATI cards. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.610 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora Core 3 Test 3. 2. Boot the system. Actual Results: 640x480 mode, vga=ask doesn't show higher resolution modes. Expected Results: 1600x1200 framebuffer with full colors. Additional info: lspci shows: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2] (rev 80)
radeonfb seems to be missing from initrd, that causes this.
framebuffers aren't set up by default to be loaded in the initrd; you can configure this if you so desire.
Is there an easy way of including them? What are the steps to take? I guess something with mkinitrd?