looking for suggestions - radeon display bad

[alan]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 22:19 +0100, peter lesterhuis wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm thinking that the problem is the 'radeon' xorg driver.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone using this driver on Fedora 8 and happy with the display?
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I asked about it on the development list. Your description sounds about
>>> what I see. I use the radeon driver also.
>>>   My earlier reply below linked.
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-November/msg00355.html
>> I have the same problems with the radeon driver. Very bad display
>> quality. Text is almost unreadable because the letters are blurred and
>> misty.  I tried to adjust the resolution settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
>> but after a restart of x nothing has changed. xorg.conf seems to get
>> rewritten.
>> I installed livna's kmod-nvidia, but after this X won't start at all.
>> I never had this problem with fedora7.
>> Anyone an idea how to solve this?
>> Peter
> ----
> Why would you use the radeon driver if you have nvidia card? that
> doesn't make a bit of sense.

Might make more than you think.  Maybe it is and fails and defaults to the 
VESA driver.

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