On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:16 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 11:03 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:16:17 +1100, Rodd wrote: > > > > > > xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd-1.3.0-3.15.20091112git.fc12 (FEDORA-2009-11518) > > > > Xorg X11 radeonhd driver for AMD GPG r5xx/r6xx Chipsets > > > > > > Fixes backlight issue, and other things. > > > > > Hmmm, I tried this build and it doesn't work for me. > > > > > > It seems to want to, but I just see lines down the screen and a large > > > square enmeshed in the screen where the cursor should be. > > > > > > Yes, I know I shouldn't be using radeonhd and that radeon is the 'one > > > true driver' but radeonhd has had some interesting power management > > > added to it and as a laptop user I'm keen to see if they extend my > > > (slowly) improving battery life and I'm also aware the pm in radeon > > > isn't great (or might be missing all together). > > > > > > So, this shouldn't be rolled out as far as I'm concerned, but how do I > > > say so? > > > > Leave feedback at http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates > > I saw you commented in the right place - > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-11518 > > but you should probably specify whether this is a regression, i.e., > whether you have the same issue with the radeonhd in the f12 release > repos. If you do, then that wouldn't really be a reason not to push the > update. I don't know whether it's a regression or not since I haven't used the radeonhd drivers for some time since someone told me that fedora is behind the radeon driver and to use this. I was just trying it as I was hoping the pm issues might be better. How long before radeon and radeonhd get merged? It seems ridiculous that we have parallel development of the very similar drivers. R. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
