Re: ATI Radeon M10 woes

[Alex Deucher <agd5f yahoo com>]

--- Tim Currie <tim algernonsystems com> wrote:
> Hi!
>    I've posted about this before, but since the message was
> completely 
> ignored, I'm going to try again. I apologize for repeating myself,
> but 
> I've spent the last month trying to solve this myself, to no avail.
> 
>    I've got a shiny new Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop with an ATI Radeon 
> Mobility 9000 (M10 I think; lspci reports 0x4e50), running Red Hat
> 9.0. 
> I've managed to get XFree86 running with the VESA driver at
> 1600x1200. 
> I've tried a number of things to get it to run in the native mode of 
> 1920x1200, but with no success. I've googled it to death and found a 
> variety of seemingly hopeful suggestions, none of which have helped. 
> Some of the things I've tried include: adding custom modelines in the
> 
> display section and referencing them in the screen section; defining
> new 
> modes; installing various custom radeon drivers (including one or
> more 
> from Mike Harris' ftp); and screaming loudly at it (while this was, 
> admittedly, one of the less-effective solutions, it was more
> satisfying 
> than any of the others).
> 
>    The proprietary ATI drivers don't work at all. They install fine,
> but 
> when I attempt to start XFree86 the screen turns an unwholesome
> blotchy 
> grey and the computer locks up tight. This, by the way, is the same 
> thing that happens whenever I try ANY radeon-specific driver,
> regardless 
> of it's source.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can offer,

You may want to try a newer RPM, or a binary snapshot. mobility 9000 is
actually M9. M10 is the mobility 9600, it's r300 based, so no
opensource 3d. M9 has opensource 3d support.

DRI snapshots are available here:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download

newer RPM's are available from redhat.

Alex

> 
> -Tim
> 
> -- 
> Proprietary software is like petrified wood. It used to be alive, but
> then it was fixed in time and put in a box. GNU/Linux software, in
> contrast, is alive, always changing and improving. I love that it's
> more a process than a product.
>                         - Pamela Jones, groklaw.net
> 
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