ATI graphics card driver

[James McKenzie]

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