Sadda Teh wrote:
Hi all, just writing to say that on my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop (latest BIOS) with ATI Mobility M4 video the modular X vesa and r128 drivers do not work properly. When X is configured to use the vesa driver it comes up, but the picture is distorted (looks like 2 vertical desktops overlapping one another at various points, also colors are messed up). As for trying to use the r128 driver, X cannot even load when configured this way, it fails with an error along the lines of the r128_drv.so could not be opened. Has anyone else seen issues like this with the new modular X packages? Should I file bugs for these in x.org <http://x.org>'s bugzilla? Thanks.
I think that's a known bug in the r128 driver right now, which can be worked around by using the "ati" driver wrapper (which should work for all ATI hardware, by sub-loading the appropriate driver (atimisc, r128, radeon) after detecting what chip you have. We normally configure each chip to the specific driver for the chip, rather than using the 'ati' wrapper, as there were problems with the wrapper a very long time ago. Please post back to the list if this works around the problem for you. Any video driver lockups/corruption/problems or other core X server glitches, driver problems, etc. generally should be reported directly to X.Org, for the driver development team to be made aware of them, which accelerates bug fixes. http://bugs.freedesktop.org - in the "xorg" component. Hope this helps! -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
