Re: ATI Radeon 7000 and DRI
From: Alan (alan_at_clueserver.org)
Date: 05/31/04
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To: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:34:15 -0700
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 04:10, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Alan wrote:
>
> > I have a Radeon 7000 card on an Athlon system with a SiS motherboard.
> >
> > I installed Fedora Core 2 on it. X worked all through the install.
> >
> > When I rebooted the system, the screen goes black and the system hangs.
> > (Or at least X goes into a state I cannot get out of without a hard
> > reboot.)
>
> Can't you get to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 ?
Nope. X goes into an unusable state.
> I'm interested because I have an ATI Rage Mobility P/M card
> in my Sony C1VFK which will only work at DefaultDepth 8.
> Otherwise I get a black screen gradually shrinking to a white screen -
> but I can always get to a text console.
If I disable DRI I can 24 bit color.
> > If I comment out the dri line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it works fine, but
> > I do not get hardware acceleration.
>
> I tried this, but it had no effect in my case.
>
> It seems to me the Xorg "ati" driver is less than perfect.
I guess I have to bribe Keith Packard with sushi to get it work.
Sounds kind of fishy to me...
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