[F18][ATI Rage XL] Problems with install on ATI Rage XP video driver

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Apr 4 20:44:52 UTC 2013


On 04/04/13 12:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 20:38:14 +0100,
>    Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Okay a bit more info :-
>>
>> F17 Anaconda is running at the same descent resolution as F16.
>>
>> On F18 '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' is reporting VESA.
>>
>> I will try rolling an F19 ISO next just to rule out that its not a
>> transient bug.
>>
>> In parallel I will see if I can track down what is causing the problem.
>>
>> Any pointers are welcome.
>
> I vaugely remember some xorg drivers going away in F18. You might want
> to try yum list 'xorg*' on f17 and f18 and see if there are differences.

Yeah, that was the same thing I was remembering when I went poking 
through the list of driver packages in F18/F19. Sorry for not explicitly 
mentioning it. But indeed, I believe what's happened here is simply that 
we dropped the native driver between F17 and F18.
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