X does not work with ATI based machines

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 5/13/09, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>
> Subject: Re: X does not work with ATI based machines
> To: "Antonio Olivares" <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 10:03 AM
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 07:56:49
> -0700,
>   Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Dear fellow testers,
> > 
> > I have updated to yesterday's updates.  Today X
> is broken on two machines(those with ATI cards :( ) 
> Will try to send specs and/or Xorg.log.?  to see if we
> can determine what is wrong.  Hopefully this afternoon
> or tomorrow morning I can send that in.
> 
> What kind of Radeon? My rv530 seems to be working pretty
> well. My rv280 has
> different problems with both modeset and nomodeset. However
> if I boot with
> modeset X works, but VTs don't. (For a while I couldn't see
> the password
> prompt for the luks password, but now it doesn't flake out
> until udev starts.)

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_808fc0dc-61b4-4f57-a41a-62cdc710058d

According to smolt it is an:

ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 2100 (wiki)
http://www.smolts.org/reports/view_device/Radeon%202100

All I see is blinking lights with it even with previous kernels :( 

Regards,

Antonio 
> 
> I am running more recent kernels than what is in the
> rawhide repo right now.
>