[Test-Announce] Call for testing: F14 Alpha RC3/RC4 with Radeon graphics adapters

Patrick Lists fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Thu Aug 12 22:24:03 UTC 2010


On 08/13/2010 12:04 AM, François Cami wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Patrick Lists
> <fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl>  wrote:
>> On 08/12/2010 10:43 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 22:35 +0200, François Cami wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK here on RV410 (Radeon X700 Pro, R400 family), using KMS.
>>>> I will be testing older cards (Radeon 7500, FireGL 8800) as time permits.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Francois! Jerome mentioned he has a reproducer now, a specific
>>> monitor, but the testing is still useful to help us figure out how wide
>>> the impact of this is.
>>
>> Just tested the boot.iso you mentioned earlier on an Acer laptop
>> (TM6465WLMi) with an ATI X1300 videocard and it fails miserably when X
>> is started. The screen becomes totally greenish it first fading to
>> something more white.
>
> What happens when you add radeon.modeset=0 on the CD command line?

I see this twice. Don't know if that's relevant but just in case:
Detecting hardware
Waiting for hardware to initialize
Detecting hardware
Waiting for hardware to initialize

Then it wants to start X, screen goes black, flickers a couple of times 
and then the kernel crashes.

Pictures here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pjl/tmp/20100813_001.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pjl/tmp/20100813_002.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pjl/tmp/20100813_003.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pjl/tmp/20100813_004.jpg

Regards,
Patrick






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