Radeon driver on FC6 x86_64 working (against monumental odds, :-) !

[David G. Miller]

Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:

> At long last I managed to convince the radeon driver to use my mode
> line, and running at 58Hz instead of 61Hz seems to vastly improve
> my flickering problems. Full story at:
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8790
>
> My brief diversion over to the fglrx drivers only produced even
> worse bugs:
>
> http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=37
>
> I'll have to try using it for a more extensive period of time, but
> things that always triggered the flickering before only do it
> occasionally now, and the screen stays stable most of the time,
> so I'm hoping that the fun time I had digging through the X server
> source code, backtracking from each error, deducing what magic
> gibberish in xorg.conf would convince it to skip that check, then
> getting the next error and doing ti again and again will pay off.
>
> Documentation? We don't need no steenkin documentation, we got
> source code  :-) .
>
> And now, the "config free" FC6 xorg.conf file is my largest and
> most elaborate one ever!
Tom, any chance that you could post your system specs?  In particular, 
your video card, motherboard or system brand, and monitor type?  I found 
some info in the referenced bug reports but it would be nice to have a 
complete record here.

BTW, I didn't have any problems at all getting my laptop working with 
the radeon video driver (Radeon Xpress 200M video card) and x86_64 so 
I'm kind of curious what characteristics of your system made life so 
difficult for you.  I wonder if it has something to do with your monitor 
not reporting correctly.

Cheers,
Dave

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