Including radeonhd in beta?

Fastie fastie81 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 14:47:11 UTC 2008


Hi.
Ok but can we get rid of the radeon driver then.
So when you install the system you get the vesa driver witch will let you at
lease boot in to X.
Chris


On Feb 12, 2008 2:39 PM, Christopher Brown <snecklifter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/02/2008, Fastie <fastie81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Yes I do agree. The radeon driver is worst. I had the same problem,
> after
> > installing the radeonhd driver everything worked fine.
> > May be a better move than sticking to the radeon driver.
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Feb 12, 2008 2:02 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > > I noticed (and it was pointed out here previously) that the radeonhd
> > > driver was not included in the alpha iso. I have an R530 based video
> > > card that ended up being handled by the radeon driver which then
> failed,
> > > so that X wouldn't start. I had to manually set the driver to vesa to
> > > get it to work. Due to some other problems I haven't had a chance to
> test
> > > the radeonhd driver (and won't get another chance until tomorrow), but
> it
> > > seems it could have hardly have been worse using it than what actually
> > > happened.
> > > In my opinion it seems like it would be better to include it than not
> > > (unless it causes problems for cards that are supported by the radeon
> > > driver).
>
> Nope, Radeonhd is a separate effort by Suse and will most likely soon
> be surpassed by ongoing RHT efforts. For more information see:
>
> http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=81
>
> audio and video available.
>
> Cheers
>
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