On Saturday 2006-03-18 12:40 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > L. David Baron wrote: > >I just installed FC5t3 x86_64 on a brand new desktop machine with a > >Radeon X300SE, and ran into two issues that seem more likely related to > >that than anything else: > > > >(1) Neither the installer, nor system-config-display once the installer > >had finished, were able to configure xorg so that it would start. > >However, I was able to do it manually by doing "modprobe radeon" and > >then rerunning system-config-display (which in turn writes out an > >xorg.conf that causes xorg to modprobe radeon by itself). This suggests > >to me that something along the way (I'm not sure what) should have done > >a "modprobe radeon" to bootstrap the whole thing, but didn't. (And > >perhaps does for other cards.) > > Ok, that doesn't make much sense to me at all. Dave disabled the radeon > kernel DRM module support for all R300+ chips due to it causing X to > hang when DRM loads if "Load "dri"" is present in the xorg.conf - > regardless of wether or not we actually ship the r300 DRI module. > > So, loading the radeon module by hand should technically have no effect > on R300 hardware unless I'm missing something. Well, it did. Should I file a bug somewhere? > Re-reading the beginning of your email, I see you're claiming to have > just installed FC5test3. All of these problems were present in > FC5test3, but have either been fixed since then, or worked around, to > the best of my knowledge. You shouldn't be reporting any bugs or > problems to bugzilla or the lists until after you run "yum update" and > update everything to the latest software. That is true after installing Oops, forgot to mention that I did update and reboot before rerunning system-config-display. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ > Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation
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