"nate" <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David G. Miller wrote:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "vesa"
> EndSection
[..]
> and the video card is (this is a single card that shows up twice in lspci):
>
> 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon
> X1300/X1550 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
any particular reason why your using the vesa driver on what seems to
be a fairly recent ATI card instead of the ATI specific drivers? Perhaps
the vesa driver doesn't work as well with power management(never used it
myself for very long).
I'd try the ATI drivers and see if it fixes the behavior, you'll probably
get much better performance at the same time, with perhaps a bit less
stability depending on what you do.
nate
It's what the install configurator came up with and the ati driver
doesn't work with this video card (output from startx):
...
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:4:0:1) found
(WW) R128: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:4:0:1) found
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
I like getting a new install stable and fully functional with open
source drivers before introducing perturbations like using a proprietary
display driver. That being said, I just installed the ATI proprietary
driver. So far the system is stable. I'll see whether the monitor
correctly goes to a low power mode tonight.
Cheers,
Dave
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