ATI graphics card driver

[akarl]

Hello all,

ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
info?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> Hello all,
>
> ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> info?

- Configure yum like described in 
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3

- Restart X

- Done

Hope this helps

CU
thl

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 19:10 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis:
> Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> > driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> > info?
> Configure yum like described in
>
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
> Than install the driver with the command:
>
> yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
>
> Restart X
>
> Done
>
> Hope this helps

This means of of course "Yes I have them successfully installed" using
this way ;-)

[akarl]

On lör, 2005-01-22 at 19:10 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> > driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> > info?
> Configure yum like described in
>
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
> Than install the driver with the command:
>
> yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
>
> Restart X
>
> Done
>
> Hope this helps
>
> CU
> thl
> -- 
> Thorsten Leemhuis

Thanks for the info. I still can't get it to work though. I followed
your instructions and when I rebooted I got a smaller screen with lower
refresh rate, so something obviously happened (if not the right thing).
Moreover `fglrxinfo' shows:

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)

According to the installation instructions from ATI, `OpenGL vendor
string' should not be Mesa if the driver is correctly installed. The
game Tux Racer is as slow as before and the mouse pointer is gone (in
the game). I then ran fglrxconfig, saved the XF86Config-4 file (should
really be named something like XorgConfig-4, right?) in /etc/X11 and
rebooted but it didn't solve the problem.

Any clues?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 19:55 +0100 schrieb August:
> On lör, 2005-01-22 at 19:10 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> > > driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> > > info?
> > Configure yum like described in
> >
> > http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
> > Than install the driver with the command:
> >
> > yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
> >
> > Restart X
> >
> > Done
>
> Thanks for the info. I still can't get it to work though. I followed
> your instructions and when I rebooted

Restarting X should normally suffice.
> I got a smaller screen with lower
> refresh rate, so something obviously happened (if not the right thing).
> Moreover `fglrxinfo' shows:
>
> $ fglrxinfo
> display: :0.0  screen: 0
> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)
>
> According to the installation instructions from ATI, `OpenGL vendor
> string' should not be Mesa if the driver is correctly installed.

Yes, this would be normal:

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9600 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)
> The
> game Tux Racer is as slow as before and the mouse pointer is gone (in
> the game). I then ran fglrxconfig, saved the XF86Config-4 file (should
> really be named something like XorgConfig-4, right?) in /etc/X11 and
> rebooted but it didn't solve the problem.

I would suggest you first remove the newly created X-Conf and get out
the old -- the one created by the fglrxconfig program sometimes makes
trouble. In case of need just move all current configs aside and
recreate with system-config-display

Try if it works. Then enable the driver using

/usr/sbin/ati-fglrx-config-display enable

Restart X. Look if it works now. If not send me the output of :

/sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx
grep fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears

The last command should list (besides others)
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0x05880000)

If not send me privately /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx
and /var/log/Xorg.0.log

HTH

CU
thl

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 22 January 2005 12:57, August wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed
> the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of
> any info?

URL please?  I have a 9200SE
> --
> August

[David Curry]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 22 January 2005 12:57, August wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed
> > the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of
> > any info?
>
> URL please?  I have a 9200SE
> > --
> > August

Go to http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html select linux x86 or x86-64 
and click on "go" button near lower right corner.

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 15:09 -0500 schrieb David Curry:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 January 2005 12:57, August wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed
> > > the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of
> > > any info?
> >
> > URL please?  I have a 9200SE

FYI: The open-source driver for your card already supports DRI.
> >
>
> Go to http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html select linux x86 or x86-64 
> and click on "go" button near lower right corner.

There you can download the driver, yes. But

- you need to compile a kernel module
- it does not compile with the current fedora update kernel
- it installs files in the system that are not managed by rpm (earlier
or later that can lead to problems?)
- it conflicts with a RPM from Core
- it puts evil things like

if [ $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ]
then
  if ! set | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
grep /usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules > /dev/null
  then
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  fi
else
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi

into you /etc/profile and will never remove them (AFAIK).

All things that don't happen with the package from livna ;-)

Cu
thl

[akarl]

On lör, 2005-01-22 at 20:15 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 19:55 +0100 schrieb August:
> > On lör, 2005-01-22 at 19:10 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > > > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> > > > driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> > > > info?
> > > Configure yum like described in
> > >
> > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
> > > Than install the driver with the command:
> > >
> > > yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
> > >
> > > Restart X
> > >
> > > Done
> >
> > Thanks for the info. I still can't get it to work though. I followed
> > your instructions and when I rebooted
>
> Restarting X should normally suffice.
> > I got a smaller screen with lower
> > refresh rate, so something obviously happened (if not the right thing).
> > Moreover `fglrxinfo' shows:
> >
> > $ fglrxinfo
> > display: :0.0  screen: 0
> > OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
> > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> > OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)
> >
> > According to the installation instructions from ATI, `OpenGL vendor
> > string' should not be Mesa if the driver is correctly installed.
>
> Yes, this would be normal:
>
> $ fglrxinfo
> display: :0.0  screen: 0
> OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9600 Generic
> OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)
> > The
> > game Tux Racer is as slow as before and the mouse pointer is gone (in
> > the game). I then ran fglrxconfig, saved the XF86Config-4 file (should
> > really be named something like XorgConfig-4, right?) in /etc/X11 and
> > rebooted but it didn't solve the problem.
>
> I would suggest you first remove the newly created X-Conf and get out
> the old -- the one created by the fglrxconfig program sometimes makes
> trouble. In case of need just move all current configs aside and
> recreate with system-config-display
>
> Try if it works. Then enable the driver using
>
> /usr/sbin/ati-fglrx-config-display enable
>
> Restart X. Look if it works now. If not send me the output of :
>
> /sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx
> grep fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears
>
> The last command should list (besides others)
>         libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0x05880000)
>
> If not send me privately /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx
> and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> HTH
>
> CU
> thl
>
> -- 
> Thorsten Leemhuis

Removed the XF86-Config* files from /etc/X11 and ran 
system-config-display. The hardware settings are correct; Samsung
SyncMaster 15GLi and ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. Chose to save the settings
anyway and ran

/usr/sbin/ati-fglrx-config-display enable

Restarted X, but there's no difference. Here is the requested output:

$ /sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx
fglrx                 225024  0

$ grep fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        Driver      "fglrx"

$ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0x00242000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00d84000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00cbb000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00de9000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00c90000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00b64000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00cb5000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00b4b000)

Thanks again for your help.

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:22, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 15:09 -0500 schrieb David Curry:
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Saturday 22 January 2005 12:57, August wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > > > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully
> > > > installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel
> > > > 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
> > >
> > > URL please?  I have a 9200SE
>
> FYI: The open-source driver for your card already supports DRI.

Yes, I know, I finally got it working just a week or so back.  But I 
was curious.  The site, or mozilla, is broken though, I had to hit 
the shift key to dl the drivers.rpm.

Thanks

[James McKenzie]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> > driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> > info?
> Configure yum like described in
>
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
> Than install the driver with the command:
>
> yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3

What video cards does this driver work with?  I have an older Thinkpad 
with a Rage 128 card in it.

James McKenzie

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 21:38 +0100 schrieb August:
> On lör, 2005-01-22 at 20:15 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 19:55 +0100 schrieb August:
> > > On lör, 2005-01-22 at 19:10 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > > Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> Restarted X, but there's no difference. Here is the requested output:
>
> $ /sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx
> fglrx                 225024  0

The kernel-module is loaded but unused -- did you get this info while X
was running?
> $ grep fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>         Driver      "fglrx"

Driver activated.
> $ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears
>         libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0x00242000)

And correct librarys are found. Does grep -i
'Load.*dri' /etc/X11/xorg.conf show:

Load  "dri"

If not add it to the modules section.

Wondering still whats wrong. Are you sure your Xserver
uses /etc/X11/xorg.conf (look in the head of /var/log/Xorg.0.log)?

Please send me privately you /var/log/Xorg.0.log,
your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and the output of /sbin/lspci, /sbin/lspci -n
and dmesg (the last after at least once the X-Server started with the
fglrx drivers)

Thanks.

CU
thl

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 13:48 -0700 schrieb James McKenzie:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> > > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> > > driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> > > info?
> > Configure yum like described in
> >
> > http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
> > Than install the driver with the command:
> >
> > yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
>
> What video cards does this driver work with?  I have an older Thinkpad 
> with a Rage 128 card in it.

Nope, 8500 and up:
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.8.25.html

CU

[David Curry]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 13:48 -0700 schrieb James McKenzie:
> > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> > > > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > > > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> > > > driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> > > > info?
> > > Configure yum like described in
> > >
> > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
> > > Than install the driver with the command:
> > >
> > > yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
> >
> > What video cards does this driver work with?  I have an older Thinkpad 
> > with a Rage 128 card in it.
>
> Nope, 8500 and up:
> http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.8.25.html
>
> CU

Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in the 
FC3 distribution.

See http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/r128.html

[Paul]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:48 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> > > driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> > > info?
> > Configure yum like described in
> >
> > http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
> > Than install the driver with the command:
> >
> > yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
>
> What video cards does this driver work with?  I have an older Thinkpad 
> with a Rage 128 card in it.

If your intested in 3D, the current X-org drivers should support
acceleration via DRI
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATI?
action=highlight&value=CategoryHardwareVendor

I have a few systems at work with a couple flavors of R128 and 3D worked
under RH 7.3 if a bit buggy with some texture issues, so I would expect
them to function reasonably well now.

If your thinking on playing games it should be good enough for older
games like Quake 2 and Unreal.

Paul
> James McKenzie

[Markku Kolkka]

Thorsten Leemhuis kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 
22. tammikuuta 2005 22:22):
> you need to compile a kernel module
> it does not compile with the current fedora update kernel

This patch is required with kernel >= 2.6.10: 
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33798874

[James McKenzie]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 13:48 -0700 schrieb James McKenzie:
> > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
> > > > ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have
> > > > released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the
> > > > driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any
> > > > info?
> > > Configure yum like described in
> > >
> > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
> > > Than install the driver with the command:
> > >
> > > yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
> >
> > What video cards does this driver work with?  I have an older Thinkpad 
> > with a Rage 128 card in it.
>
> Nope, 8500 and up:

Thank you.  I just wanted to make sure that I'm current.  Guess that I am.

James McKenzie

[James McKenzie]

David Curry wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
> Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in the 
> FC3 distribution.
>
> See http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/r128.html

Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the Rage 
128 with r128 as the selected driver.  However, when I attempt to 
compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up to 
either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build r128 
support as a module.  Does anyone have a working kernel with r128 
support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working kernel with 
  r128 support built-into the kernel?

[David Curry]

James McKenzie wrote:
> David Curry wrote:
> > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >
> > Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in 
> > the FC3 distribution.
> >
> > See http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/r128.html
>
> Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the Rage 
> 128 with r128 as the selected driver.  However, when I attempt to 
> compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up to 
> either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build r128 
> support as a module.  Does anyone have a working kernel with r128 
> support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working kernel 
> with  r128 support built-into the kernel?

You should not need to take any extra steps to compile in support for an 
ATI r128 based video card when installing FC3 or FC2.  The card should 
be detected during installation of FC3 and the appropriate X.org driver 
installed.  My ATI Radeon 7000 video card was detected and appropriate 
support included along with the rest of FC2 when I installed the system 
from distribution CD isos.

[James McKenzie]

David Curry wrote:
> James McKenzie wrote:
> > David Curry wrote:
> > > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > >
> > > Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in 
> > > the FC3 distribution.
> > >
> > > See http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/r128.html
> >
> > Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the Rage 
> > 128 with r128 as the selected driver.  However, when I attempt to 
> > compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up to 
> > either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build r128 
> > support as a module.  Does anyone have a working kernel with r128 
> > support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working kernel 
> > with  r128 support built-into the kernel?
>
> You should not need to take any extra steps to compile in support for an 
> ATI r128 based video card when installing FC3 or FC2.  The card should 
> be detected during installation of FC3 and the appropriate X.org driver 
> installed.  My ATI Radeon 7000 video card was detected and appropriate 
> support included along with the rest of FC2 when I installed the system 
> from distribution CD isos.

David:

Try suspending and unsuspending.  X goes nuts and starts to consume 
every CPU cycle it can if you stay in VT 7.  Switching out to a text VT 
(1-6) drops X to a reasonable level, but switching back to VT 7 starts 
the cycle over, if I leave the video driver as a module.  If I compile 
in the video driver, this does not happen.
I found a D600 (yes it is a Dell) script, but the user tries to xinit 
screen 1, not 0.  I think the only solution is to crash X and then bring 
it back up after suspending (which defeats completely the reason I want 
to suspend in the first place.)  The other side is that I can as stated 
in other messages, use the Radeon driver supplied by Fedora and suspend 
and resume.  However, I get hit with the power consumption bug in those 
drivers.

[James McKenzie]

James McKenzie wrote:
> David Curry wrote:
> > James McKenzie wrote:
> > > David Curry wrote:
> > > > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in 
> > > > the FC3 distribution.
> > > >
> > > > See http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/r128.html
> > >
> > > Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the 
> > > Rage 128 with r128 as the selected driver.  However, when I attempt 
> > > to compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up 
> > > to either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build 
> > > r128 support as a module.  Does anyone have a working kernel with 
> > > r128 support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working 
> > > kernel with  r128 support built-into the kernel?
> >
> > You should not need to take any extra steps to compile in support for 
> > an ATI r128 based video card when installing FC3 or FC2.  The card 
> > should be detected during installation of FC3 and the appropriate 
> > X.org driver installed.  My ATI Radeon 7000 video card was detected 
> > and appropriate support included along with the rest of FC2 when I 
> > installed the system from distribution CD isos.
>
> David:
>
> Try suspending and unsuspending.  X goes nuts and starts to consume 
> every CPU cycle it can if you stay in VT 7.  Switching out to a text VT 
> (1-6) drops X to a reasonable level, but switching back to VT 7 starts 
> the cycle over, if I leave the video driver as a module.  If I compile 
> in the video driver, this does not happen.
> I found a D600 (yes it is a Dell) script, but the user tries to xinit 
> screen 1, not 0.  I think the only solution is to crash X and then bring 
> it back up after suspending (which defeats completely the reason I want 
> to suspend in the first place.)  The other side is that I can as stated 
> in other messages, use the Radeon driver supplied by Fedora and suspend 
> and resume.  However, I get hit with the power consumption bug in those 
> drivers.

All:

I decided to compile in R128 support and disable DRI in xorg.conf.  Now 
it appears to work.  I have to try suspending and hibernating.