On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:57 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> SilverTip257 wrote:
> > 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
>
> 3.11.4-201? From my reinstall, I have 3.11.1-200 and 3.11.6-200. No 201,
> and no new update (I just did that as I saw this).
>
I don't reboot my machine each time a new kernel is released.
And that machine just indicated it has updates (including that kernel
version). Updating packages as I write this.
So for two reasons I wasn't running the latest and greatest kernel.
> >
> > 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)
>
> Ok, so two things: first, do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Second,
>
No xorg.conf
> what's your kernel line in grub look like? Oh, and for the third of two
>
linux /vmlinuz-3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-rootfs ro rd.md=0
rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg0/swap rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us
vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=vg0/rootfs rhgb quiet
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> questions, do you have radeon blacklisted, or nomodeset, anywhere?
>
I do not have radeon blacklisted, nor do I have nomodeset.
If it's worth saying, I didn't have to fiddle with the display adapter or
any other piece of hardware when I set this particular machine up. As one
would hope, it was a hands off install (smooth and painless).
> >>
> >> > 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?
>
> You've added a ! where there was none. No, the graphical install displays
> *perfectly*.
> mark
>
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