Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

As you have seen, the "radeon*" and "radeondrmkmsfb*" drivers do not
attach on "r100" class devices.  They have been explicitly excluded
because early in the DRMKMS integration in NetBSD, they exhibited the
"(almost) black-on-black" video problem described in:

  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2015/02/20/msg026732

and later in the following PR:

  kern/49744: console is blank drm2/radeon

The suggestion for "radeonfb*" is interesting.  I see it's in the "ALL"
kernel, but not in "GENERIC" (not even as a commented-out device), so
you'd have to compile a custom kernel with it added to the config.

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