ATI Radeon 7000 and DRI

[Fred Nastos]

On May 31, 2004 02:34 pm, Alan wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 04:10, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Alan wrote:
> > > I have a Radeon 7000 card on an Athlon system with a SiS motherboard.
> > >
> > > I installed Fedora Core 2 on it.  X worked all through the install.
> > >
> > > When I rebooted the system, the screen goes black and the system hangs.
> > > (Or at least X goes into a state I cannot get out of without a hard
> > > reboot.)
> >
> > Can't you get to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 ?
>
> Nope.  X goes into an unusable state.

Just to confirm this, I have three systems with ATI Radeon 7000 64MB
AGP.  Two of them sit on an ASUS P4S800D-E and I was having
the same problem mentioned above.  Commenting out the dri command
in xorg.conf solved it.  The other system though, is an Athlon64 on a K8V
board, and there X works fine (i.e. I don't need comment out the Load "dri" 
command.

> > I'm interested because I have an ATI Rage Mobility P/M card
> > in my Sony C1VFK which will only work at DefaultDepth 8.
> > Otherwise I get a black screen gradually shrinking to a white screen -
> > but I can always get to a text console.
>
> If I disable DRI I can 24 bit color.
>
> > > If I comment out the dri line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it works fine, but
> > > I do not get hardware acceleration.
> >
> > I tried this, but it had no effect in my case.
> >
> > It seems to me the Xorg "ati" driver is less than perfect.
>
> I guess I have to bribe Keith Packard with sushi to get it work.
>
> Sounds kind of fishy to me...