ATI Radeon 7000 and DRI
Jim Cornette
jim-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Jun 4 02:50:04 UTC 2004
xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
>On Friday 04 June 2004 01:37, Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
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>>>Modifying the GRUB bootup line to get rid of "rhgb" and substituting
>>>"3" (don't know if this is necessary?), gives me a (real fast!) text
>>>bootup. Logging into a regular user and then typing startx -- -nolisten
>>>tcp pops me into X/KDE no problem; but ONLY if the "load dri" is
>>>commented out. If it is present, then it locks up just like the
>>>graphical boot.
>>>
>>>I am going to try the .411 kernel from testing/arjan tonight and see if
>>>this fixes anything... Something weird with how the X server is called
>>>from the boot sequence?
>>>
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>>The 411 version kernel might not work at all for GUI. There is supposed
>>to be a later version out, with the correction of the introduced bug. I
>>believe the next kernel number is 419.
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>Oh boy, it sure didn't... much much worse... can't get into X at all now... X
>server bails.
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>The kernel I see in arjan is now 414... Does this have a fix?
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>>Jim
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>>>>http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=707 is the bug report I
>>>>have added to it. Add more useful data to it if you have it. I would
>>>>love to see this fixed.
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I believe the fix was in the next version. I think that I pulled from
memory the wrong rev number (419). 414 is probably correct.
If you want to check the fedora-test-list archives, it was a recent
discussion. It should be easy to find the discussion, even without a search.
Jim
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