Re: CentOS on wildfire

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:14:01PM +0400, Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
> >
> I have almost all packages built 
> for AC3, but modular xorg doesn't work
> on my Radeon. :( I haven't had time to understand what could be wrong, 
> but all my attempts failed.

I have a strong suspicion that this trouble you are seeing is really
"generic" and not that much related to Alpha.  For one possible reason,
and a possible workaround, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194105

Check also
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5678
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5133
and related.

Actually versions you can find in the current rawhide are definitely
in a better shape than what is included in FC5.  Still a general
advice not to use 'ati' wrapper for a driver but 'radeon' instead
still holds and I still need an explicit configuration as described
in bz 194105 or my machine with Radeon 9500 is dead in an instant.

In any case searching at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/query.cgi
for bugs in xorg "Product" and with "radeon" string in comments
is producing quite impressive list. 1/2 :-)

   Michal