Xorg - radeon & X700 no go?

Patrick fedora at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Thu Dec 8 11:28:41 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:15 +0000, Cam wrote:
> Patrick
> 
> > I installed rawhide from about 5 hours ago on an Acer Ferrari 4000 with
> > an ATI X700 and 1680x1050 screen. X was configured with the vesa driver
> > and 1400x1050 which looks a bit stretched in width. So I
> > edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replaced vesa with radeon in the driver
> > section. Did an init 3, modprobe radeon and init 5. The screen does not
> > show anything (stays black) while X seems to load.
> > In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see a lot of these messages:
> > drnOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card[0..254]
> 
> I'm not sure if it's helpful but have you tried commenting out dri in 
> the xorg.conf?
> 
> I'm trying a Dell Inspiron 6000 (1920x1200, 128Mb radeon x300) and there 
> was a hang at theater detect (or something), until I commented out dri. 
> Can't wait to get it working properly.

Thanks for the info. Unfortantely it did not help. Don't know if it's of
interest but I'm running with selinux=0

Regards,
Patrick




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