the rawhide radeon driver just plain doesn't work

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Monday 13 April 2009 01:27:51 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>   based on the grief i've been having over the last couple days with
>> the radeon driver (firefox locking up constantly, browsing certain
>> websites doing the same), i reverted back to a 1024x768 resolution
>> using the vesa driver and things seem to be working fine.
>>
>>   as a test, using the vesa driver, i browsed over to linux-kvm.org
>> and it displayed fine.  i switched to the radeon driver, logged out of
>> X, logged back in, browsed to that site and ... boom!  hard lockup.
>> switch back to vesa, no problem.
>>
>>   so, for the time being, i'll tolerate 1024x768 with a vesa driver
>> since it means i won't have to reboot every 10 minutes.  and i'll
>> watch for new developments with the radeon driver.
>>
>> $ rpm -q xorg-x11-drv-ati
>> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.1-10.fc11.x86_64
> FWIW Im running xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.1-10.fc11.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.29.1-54.fc11.x86_64
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.0-19.fc11.x86_64
> 
> and not having any issues. its stable with dual 20" lcds each at 1680x1050 
> 
> Dennis
> 
But what card?  Anything slightly older is being bypassed and left to 
rot (so it seems).

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G.Wolfe Woodbury