On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:49 -0800, alan wrote: > 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. ---- which is sort of why I put the call out to other xorg radeon users on Fedora 8 to find out if any of them got decent video. I did get livna's implementation of their fglrx driver to run and it improved things but radeon driver should have worked better out of box. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
