Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 07:18 +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On 27/11/09 06:08, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > Don't use radeonhd, the Fedora X team don't support it and never have.
> > I'm thinking it should reallyt be removed from the distro at this point
> > as it makes things worse rather than better.
> 
> If you do this, please consider having a radeonhd->radeon testing day 
> for people like myself - radeonhd works for me where radeon doesn't:

If the radeonhd maintainer would even add kms detection and refuse to
start it would help, the fact that with kms loaded, radeonhd cannot
work doesn't seem to have made it back into the Fedora package.

> 
>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492723
> 
> (I haven't yet tested with F12 final, it's on my to-do list - but the 
> various alphas/betas didn't improve matters)
> 
> I would have thought that the radeon driver capabilities should be very 
> close to radeonhd, some of these bugs should be easy to squash (he says ;).

Not at all, radeonhd has no kernel modesetting support and does a lot of
stuff in its own unique way. Please test an F12 LiveCD or something as
soon as you can and we'll figure this out. Anyone using radeonhd is only
causing themselves long term problems and I encourage them to switch to
radeon if they want any support going forward.

Dave.