X does not work with ATI based machines

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Adam Jackson wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 18:02 -0600, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
>
> > I have an ATI 3650 card, and the kernel-2.6.29.3-140.fc11.x86_64 fails
> > to boot, but kernel-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.x86_64 works fine.. from
> > /var/log/messages I see this
> >
> > So, I would pull kernel -140 or issue a new one with the fix
>
> Can you test -128 and -129 from koji?  Those are the only two
> between -126 and -140 that have radeon changes, afaict.

  i'm currently running -129 and i can tell you that it doesn't work
with the current radeon driver.  to get a desktop, i have to boot with
"nomodeset" and use the "vesa" driver, which gives me only 1024x768
on my 1280x800 display.  i've been down that road quite a lot lately,
as i've mentioned before:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495208

  if something's changed lately so that it's worth testing upgrading
and trying again, i'm willing to give it a shot, but it wouldn't be
worth it if none of the enhancements or bug fixes tried to address
this issue.

rday
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