RC3 still NO GO with ATI

[He Rui]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 13:37 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 09:45 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 18:09 +0800, He Rui wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 02:28 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> > > > With the default driver of the basic video driver,
> > > > RC3 still goes to a blank screen using Core Duo
> > > > and ATU 5670 display card.  The keyboard still
> > > > seems to work but without a working graphics
> > > > it's  hosed.
> > > > 
> > > > As before, no text mode option is displayed.
> > > 
> > > Confirmed. Have to install with basic video driver. Is there already a
> > > filed bug for tracking?
> > 
> > That's not 'confirmed', you're seeing different bugs. Chuck says "With
> > the default driver of the basic video driver, RC3 still goes to a blank
> > screen..." The word 'of' is a pretty obvious typo for 'or', so for
> > Chuck, it doesn't work with radeon or vesa. For Hurry, it doesn't work
> > with radeon but does work with vesa. That's not the same bug.
> > 
> > Hurry's case sounds possibly like John Reiser's:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985
> > 
> > (note that in contrast to the initial report, later on John makes it
> > clear that with basic video driver, install *does* work, unless he hits
> > some other unrelated bug).
> > 
> > Chuck's would seem to be something different.
> 
> Actually, I've discovered a wrinkle here. The 'Basic video driver'
> option isn't actually working right. For Radeons, it will result in the
> installer using the 'radeon' driver, but with UMS not KMS, which will
> indeed have unpredictable results: it could certainly work for some
> people but not others.
> 
Ah, yes. As clarified, in my case, it's the 'nomodeset' working rather
than vesa driver when I selected 'install with basic video driver'.

Thanks,
Hurry
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