The radeon driver is still broken, and only works without acceleration (anything else causes hard lockup of the whole machine). Will Xorg 7.0.0R3 be available for rawhide ? - Erwin On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:22 +0100, Erwin Rol wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 02:44 -0500, 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. > > My Radeon locks the machine hard, meaning no network, no nothing, only > can press the reset/power switch. I have seen previous reports here with > the same problem, but there was talk about that AGP might be the > problem, but i have a PCIe card (01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI > Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] ). > That card worked fine with the old Xorg before the switch to mod-X. > > > 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). > > When i use the vesa driver i see things like that too. The icons of > applications have the wrong colors (looks like R and G and B are > switched) and they are also at the wrong place (shifted 20 pixels or > so). > > I am now running with the fbdev driver on top of the radeonfb this works > but is of course not optimal. > > > 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's bugzilla? Thanks. > > Well if it are really the same issues i dunno, but i sure have issues > with mod X. > > - Erwin > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
