Re: xorg 7.0 and Radeon 7500
Jay Estabrook wrote:
> Have you tried Xorg 7.0.x WITHOUT the radeonfb driver?
Tried that last night, and the bad news is it made only a slight
difference. "X -probeonly" (with the radeon driver specified in
xorg.conf) permanently blanked the display as before, but there was
no accompanying kernel "Oops". Machine was still functional as far
as being able to login remotely, but the console was dead (as verified
by numlock/capslock LEDs not working). When I tried firing up gdm
just for grins, that didn't kill the machine immediately: I could
examine the Xorg.0.log file and do a bit of poking around on the
system (via remote login) until I touched the console keyboard, at
which point the machine locked up hard -- reset switch required.
Also tried the extra framebuffer boot parameter to explicitly note
the CRT was attached to the secondary (VGA) connector, which likewise
made no difference in how the xorg.conf fbdev driver behaved. This
still seems to be the most promising approach short of downgrading the
X11 packages. I'll be trying a DVI <--> VGA adapter later today to
move the CRT to the DVI port. If that works, we can at least move
forward with working out the kinks in Xorg 7.0.X.
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