ATI graphics card driver
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 21 17:06:04 UTC 2005
James McKenzie wrote:
> 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.
All:
I decided to compile in R128 support and disable DRI in xorg.conf. Now
it appears to work. I have to try suspending and hibernating.
--
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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