ATI graphics card driver

[James McKenzie]

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