ATI driver for X.org 7.0.0?

[Ben Matteson]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:33 +0000, Ola Thoresen wrote:
> 2006-02-03 Andy Burns <fedora at adslpipe.co.uk> wrote
> > Ola Thoresen wrote:
> >
> >> On a related note, have anyone got either "radeon" or "ati" to work on
> >> an x86_64 lately?
> >
> > yes, been great 2D-wise for me since about X11R7RC4, on an rv370 card, I 
> > have to add a ChipId to force the hand of the PCI detection.
> >
> > I know that doesn't help you ... but you did ask ;-)
> 
> Doesn't help me with the problem, but at least it is not a general
> problem with ati under x86_64.
> 
> Did a bit more investigation now, and it seems like the machine itself
> is running (I can ssh in from another machine here), but Xorg is using
> 100% CPU.
> 
> The console is completely dead, even if I kill -9 Xorg the screen
> remains blank and the keyboard does not respond at all, so a reboot is
> needed to recover.
> 
> I'll see if I can find another solution, and maybe try to reinstall.
> This machine has been following rawhide/development for about a year
> now with nightly yum updates enabled (yeah - I like to live a risky
> life) so there might very well be some bits and pieces from a broken
> package laying around somewhere...

Hi,

Might this be the problem with the newer radeon driver that FC5 uses?
When I had this freezing problem, I had to comment out the DRI section
of the xorg.conf file, and everything worked fine ...

Ben