gnome shell compatible vga cards

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Hello,

I am wondering if:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 
2600 Series]

is acceptable for the new gnome shell?  It seems to work sometimes, and 
at other times not.  For example, it was working in rawhide (I could get 
a shell, anyway), but now it does not work, nor has it ever worked in 
F15Alpha TC1.

Is there a "better" vga card for the shell in the radeon series?  Is 
there an utility that can be run to check if the VGA card is supported 
in gnome 3.

TIA

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:15 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering if:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 
> 2600 Series]
>
> is acceptable for the new gnome shell?  It seems to work sometimes, and 
> at other times not.  For example, it was working in rawhide (I could get 
> a shell, anyway), but now it does not work, nor has it ever worked in 
> F15Alpha TC1.
>
> Is there a "better" vga card for the shell in the radeon series?  Is 
> there an utility that can be run to check if the VGA card is supported 
> in gnome 3.

It should work; if it doesn't, that's a bug. File it against
xorg-x11-drv-ati. I should probably set up a tracker for 'Shell doesn't
work' bugs. What happens when it fails? Do you get the fallback mode, or
an uglier failure?

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 02/14/2011 11:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:15 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am wondering if:
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD
> > 2600 Series]
> >
> > is acceptable for the new gnome shell?  It seems to work sometimes, and
> > at other times not.  For example, it was working in rawhide (I could get
> > a shell, anyway), but now it does not work, nor has it ever worked in
> > F15Alpha TC1.
> >
> > Is there a "better" vga card for the shell in the radeon series?  Is
> > there an utility that can be run to check if the VGA card is supported
> > in gnome 3.
>
> It should work; if it doesn't, that's a bug. File it against
> xorg-x11-drv-ati. I should probably set up a tracker for 'Shell doesn't
> work' bugs. What happens when it fails? Do you get the fallback mode, or
> an uglier failure?

Usually fall back in rawhide.  In F15Alpha tc1, mutter falls over. 
There is already a bz for the mutter failure.  Will test more after 
todays branched-report updates.

Thanks for the reply.

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

On 02/14/2011 06:59 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 11:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:15 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am wondering if:
> > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD
> > > 2600 Series]
> > >
> > > is acceptable for the new gnome shell?  It seems to work sometimes, and
> > > at other times not.  For example, it was working in rawhide (I could get
> > > a shell, anyway), but now it does not work, nor has it ever worked in
> > > F15Alpha TC1.
> > >
> > > Is there a "better" vga card for the shell in the radeon series?  Is
> > > there an utility that can be run to check if the VGA card is supported
> > > in gnome 3.
> >
> > It should work; if it doesn't, that's a bug. File it against
> > xorg-x11-drv-ati. I should probably set up a tracker for 'Shell doesn't
> > work' bugs. What happens when it fails? Do you get the fallback mode, or
> > an uglier failure?
>
> Usually fall back in rawhide.  In F15Alpha tc1, mutter falls over.
> There is already a bz for the mutter failure.  Will test more after
> todays branched-report updates.
>
> Thanks for the reply.

I'm experiencing with my i386 radeon hw..

Feb 14 19:05:22 localhost kernel: [  244.755020] mutter[2761]: segfault 
at bf8f7750 ip 04c3f32e sp bf8f2dc0 error 4 in r300_dri.so[4a90000+386000]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility 
Radeon X300]

JBG

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 19:20 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> I'm experiencing with my i386 radeon hw..
>
> Feb 14 19:05:22 localhost kernel: [  244.755020] mutter[2761]: segfault 
> at bf8f7750 ip 04c3f32e sp bf8f2dc0 error 4 in r300_dri.so[4a90000+386000]
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility 
> Radeon X300]

Definitely report that one then! You can report against mesa or
xorg-x11-drv-ati but make sure airlied is CCed in.

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:47 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Definitely report that one then!

Already have.. Already have via abrt I added that segfault info to the
report encase the coredump was not enough..
> You can report against mesa or
> xorg-x11-drv-ati but make sure airlied is CCed in.

Already identified an moved from mutter against mesa and assigned to
ajax...

JBG

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Adam Williamson  wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 19:20 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > I'm experiencing with my i386 radeon hw..
> >
> > Feb 14 19:05:22 localhost kernel: [  244.755020] mutter[2761]: segfault
> > at bf8f7750 ip 04c3f32e sp bf8f2dc0 error 4 in r300_dri.so[4a90000+386000]
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility
> > Radeon X300]
>
> Definitely report that one then! You can report against mesa or
> xorg-x11-drv-ati but make sure airlied is CCed in.

FYI I think this is the bug he's referring too....
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677368