Install using vesa fails with ATI X700

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 10:56 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 19:47 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:51 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 19:16 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Ugh I completely forgot to submit the info you asked for. Just had a
> > > > look and I can't figure out how to mount the USB stick. Can't even find
> > > > something similar to /var/log/messages so I know what the USB stick is
> > > > called. Can you please give me a hint?
> > > 
> > > Run dmesg?  Look in /proc/partitions?
> > > 
> > > If all else fails, scp works too.
> > 
> > I have attached a copy of X.log. Around line 515 you can see that the
> > tft panel gets detected as secondary which results in black screen.
> 
> This isn't using the vesa driver.  Were you expecting it to?
> 
> The real issue is that we seem to think you have no monitors attached,
> which is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231359 .
> I suspect the new radeon driver fixes it but I'm not sure; I'll have
> packages for testing later today.

Okay, so a day late, but:

http://people.redhat.com/ajackson/ati/

has a snapshot build of 6.6.191.  It seems to be working okay for me,
but I'd like confirmation from a few other people before rawhiding it,
there's been a lot of churn between 6.6.3 and now.

- ajax