ATI Radeon 7000 and DRI

[Timothy Murphy]

Alan wrote:

> I have a Radeon 7000 card on an Athlon system with a SiS motherboard.
> 
> I installed Fedora Core 2 on it.  X worked all through the install.
> 
> When I rebooted the system, the screen goes black and the system hangs.
> (Or at least X goes into a state I cannot get out of without a hard
> reboot.)

Can't you get to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 ?

I'm interested because I have an ATI Rage Mobility P/M card
in my Sony C1VFK which will only work at DefaultDepth 8.
Otherwise I get a black screen gradually shrinking to a white screen -
but I can always get to a text console.

> If I comment out the dri line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it works fine, but
> I do not get hardware acceleration.

I tried this, but it had no effect in my case.

It seems to me the Xorg "ati" driver is less than perfect.



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