Am Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:08:30 -0500 schrieb "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Guys, > > I almost had a heartattack tonight when I updated my laptop and X > died. I though "oh no, here we go again -- the intel story all over > again..." > > So far performance is fine with the new setup. To be honest, I don't > even know what driver is being used at the moment (I haven't had time > to check. I thought I would get this post out in case some other > radeonhd user is freaking out after update). I have captured the > following information and I'm making it available to the devs if > anyone is interested in what happened here. This laptop is an old > Toshiba P205d (Radeon RS690M graphics card). The information I saved > is: (hostname is alchemy) From what this site http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature says, KMS seems to not yet (fully) support your card. You should add radeon.modeset=0 and probably a vga or vesafb options to your kernel parameters in /boot/grub/menu.lst. As far as I read KMS for radeonhd cards is planned for kernel 2.6.32. Heiko
