On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Patrick Lists <
centos-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I
> > updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported
> > any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620).
>
I have a system running Fedora 19 that has a RV620 video card in it. It is
using the radeon video driver and working just fine.
~]$ modinfo radeon | egrep -v 'firmware|alias|param'
filename:
/lib/modules/3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko
license: GPL and additional rights
description: ATI Radeon
author: Gareth Hughes, Keith Whitwell, others.
depends: drm,drm_kms_helper,ttm,i2c-core,i2c-algo-bit
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64 SMP mod_unload
signer: Fedora kernel signing key
sig_key: 4D:B8:EE:F4:45:2A:F1:A1:6A:E4:A4:DE:A7:8E:84:F8:5D:B5:14:7F
sig_hashalgo: sha256
parm: no_wb:Disable AGP writeback for scratch registers (int)
parm: modeset:Disable/Enable modesetting (int)
parm: dynclks:Disable/Enable dynamic clocks (int)
parm: r4xx_atom:Enable ATOMBIOS modesetting for R4xx (int)
parm: vramlimit:Restrict VRAM for testing (int)
parm: agpmode:AGP Mode (-1 == PCI) (int)
parm: gartsize:Size of PCIE/IGP gart to setup in megabytes (32,
64, etc) (int)
parm: benchmark:Run benchmark (int)
parm: test:Run tests (int)
parm: connector_table:Force connector table (int)
parm: tv:TV enable (0 = disable) (int)
parm: audio:Audio enable (1 = enable) (int)
parm: disp_priority:Display Priority (0 = auto, 1 = normal, 2 =
high) (int)
parm: hw_i2c:hw i2c engine enable (0 = disable) (int)
parm: pcie_gen2:PCIE Gen2 mode (-1 = auto, 0 = disable, 1 =
enable) (int)
parm: msi:MSI support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto) (int)
parm: lockup_timeout:GPU lockup timeout in ms (defaul 10000 = 10
seconds, 0 = disable) (int)
parm: fastfb:Direct FB access for IGP chips (0 = disable, 1 =
enable) (int)
parm: dpm:DPM support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto) (int)
parm: aspm:ASPM support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto) (int)
> Google says it's from 2007 which make it ancient in Internet years :)
> Afaict it's a FirePro / Radeon HD 3000 series and one solution is to use
> the proprietary Catalyst *Legacy* driver (< 13.1). The good folks over
> at elrepo.org have created kmod-fglrx-legacy for these old cards. I
> don't know if that's EL6 only or that they have one for F19 too.
> Alternatively check rpmfusion.org.
>
> Looking at the output of modinfo radeon the RV620 is mentioned. That
> suggests that it should work with the radeon.ko kernel driver. Is the
> PCI address of your card listed in the output of modinfo radeon? You can
> find it with 'lspci'.
>
Here's what I've got on a system I'm running.
~]$ lspci -vv -s 01:00.0 | egrep 'VGA|Kernel'; xrandr -q
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192
DIN disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 473mm x 296mm
1680x1050 60.0*+
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1440x900 75.0 59.9
1280x960 60.0
1360x768 59.8
1152x864 75.0
1280x720 60.0
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
DVI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>
> > The thing that drives me crazy is, when I reinstalled the whole system,
> > whatever video driver the installer used for graphical install *worked*.
> > So: does anyone have any idea a) what driver that uses, and b) how to
> > force grub2 to use it (or do I also need to do this to the initrd)?
>
So you're seeing problems with the splash/loading screen?
>
> Maybe it was using the vesa video driver. Iirc you can force that by
> booting the kernel with 'xdriver=vesa'. Or you could try 'xdriver=radeon'.
> For more info see:
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ch10s02.html#idm43623936
>
> If the vesa driver works fine, if necessary, you could create an
> xorg.conf which uses the vesa driver. Maybe you also need to blacklist
> the radeon kernel module if that gets in the way.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
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