--- On Sat, 9/12/09, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley(a)att.net> wrote:
From: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley(a)att.net>
Subject: some late radeon test good news
To: "Fedora Test List" <fedora-test-list(a)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]
--
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