radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:45:51 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:

> Did any version of radeonhd ever work for Radeon HD 3650?
> If so, how do I install it?

I don't know about the 3650, but my HD 2400 at work would
crash fairly often with the radeon driver on fedora 12
(I'm using fedora 13 radeon now, and so far no crashes).

On fedora 12 I did:

yum install xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd

(I think that was the name), then cobbled up an xorg.conf
file with this driver section:

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Option      "DRI" "off"
	Option      "AccelMethod" "shadowfb"
	Option      "NoRandr"
	Option      "UnverifiedFeatures" "off"
	Driver      "radeonhd"
EndSection

The radeonhd driver wouldn't work very well either, but at
least it had lots of options I could add to turn off
just about all acceleration and get stable 2D video.

Full details of my fedora 12 experience with this card
are in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541387