ATI graphics card driver
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 21 15:32:58 UTC 2005
David Curry wrote:
> James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> David Curry wrote:
>>
>>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>
>>> Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in
>>> the FC3 distribution.
>>>
>>> See http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/r128.html
>>>
>> Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the Rage
>> 128 with r128 as the selected driver. However, when I attempt to
>> compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up to
>> either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build r128
>> support as a module. Does anyone have a working kernel with r128
>> support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working kernel
>> with r128 support built-into the kernel?
>>
> You should not need to take any extra steps to compile in support for an
> ATI r128 based video card when installing FC3 or FC2. The card should
> be detected during installation of FC3 and the appropriate X.org driver
> installed. My ATI Radeon 7000 video card was detected and appropriate
> support included along with the rest of FC2 when I installed the system
> from distribution CD isos.
>
David:
Try suspending and unsuspending. X goes nuts and starts to consume
every CPU cycle it can if you stay in VT 7. Switching out to a text VT
(1-6) drops X to a reasonable level, but switching back to VT 7 starts
the cycle over, if I leave the video driver as a module. If I compile
in the video driver, this does not happen.
I found a D600 (yes it is a Dell) script, but the user tries to xinit
screen 1, not 0. I think the only solution is to crash X and then bring
it back up after suspending (which defeats completely the reason I want
to suspend in the first place.) The other side is that I can as stated
in other messages, use the Radeon driver supplied by Fedora and suspend
and resume. However, I get hit with the power consumption bug in those
drivers.
--
James McKenzie
With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2
and ibm-acpi .1
Need a home for my .rpm
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