On May 31, 2004 02:34 pm, Alan wrote: > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 04:10, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > 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 ? > > Nope. X goes into an unusable state. Just to confirm this, I have three systems with ATI Radeon 7000 64MB AGP. Two of them sit on an ASUS P4S800D-E and I was having the same problem mentioned above. Commenting out the dri command in xorg.conf solved it. The other system though, is an Athlon64 on a K8V board, and there X works fine (i.e. I don't need comment out the Load "dri" command. > > 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 disable DRI I can 24 bit color. > > > > 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. > > I guess I have to bribe Keith Packard with sushi to get it work. > > Sounds kind of fishy to me...
