--- On Sat, 9/12/09, Tom Horsley tom.horsley@att.net wrote:
From: Tom Horsley tom.horsley@att.net Subject: some late radeon test good news To: "Fedora Test List" fedora-test-list@redhat.com Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 1:20 PM Didn't have time to fool with system on the official ATI test day, but I have just gotten some vastly improved results with the latest rawhide updates on my system with the radeon 7200:
It actually boots without nomodeset and radeon.modeset=0 (previously some sort of kernel stack trace would happen and the system would go all non-responsive).
And, once X starts, it is using the right screen resolution (1920x1080) without an xorg.conf file.
I don't think it is doing any mode setting even without the nomodeset boot parameter though, because everything is invisible till X actually starts - the BIOS is apparently selecting some funny mode to operate in which my samsung TV can't display via the hdmi connection.
If I hook it to the VGA connection on the TV, it doesn't work quite as well as vesa. It thinks it should use 1024x768, but vesa successfully picked 1280x1024 as the default. The screen mode it isin most of the time during boot is something like 720x400@70HZ (very weird).
If I try to run something like "neverputt", I get a warning that 3D is not supported, which isn't all that surprising, but at least 2D seems to be working well for the first time in a while on this ancient 7200.
kernel: kernel-2.6.31-2.fc12.x86_64 radeon driver: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-0.4.20090908git651fe5a47.fc12.x86_64 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]
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I have to say that at least for you there is hope :), but the nvidia noveaux is not faring that well. When I boot Fedora-12-Alpha-KDE spin or Fedora 12 Alpha DVD, I get errors and only see a white screen when X starts. I tried booting in level 3, and startx, but It bombs out and returns me to shell. I tried to save the messages, but the machine locked up and was unable to get the error messages :(, Card was an integrated Nvidia 6150 on an Emachines E1161-05
http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=ET1161-05
At home I am running Fedora 11 with nvidia driver with no problems, but I try to install rawhide on another identical machine and I get that I cannot install it. I will try daily spins when I have a chance to see if I can install rawhide on it and keep testing from there :)
Regards,
Antonio