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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: ATI graphics card driver

From: James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:06:04 -0700

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James McKenzie wrote:

David Curry wrote:
James McKenzie wrote:
David Curry wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in the FC3 distribution.
See http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/r128.html
Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the Rage 128 with r128 as the selected driver. However, when I attempt to compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up to either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build r128 support as a module. Does anyone have a working kernel with r128 support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working kernel with r128 support built-into the kernel?
You should not need to take any extra steps to compile in support for an ATI r128 based video card when installing FC3 or FC2. The card should be detected during installation of FC3 and the appropriate X.org driver installed. My ATI Radeon 7000 video card was detected and appropriate support included along with the rest of FC2 when I installed the system from distribution CD isos.
David:
Try suspending and unsuspending. X goes nuts and starts to consume every CPU cycle it can if you stay in VT 7. Switching out to a text VT (1-6) drops X to a reasonable level, but switching back to VT 7 starts the cycle over, if I leave the video driver as a module. If I compile in the video driver, this does not happen. I found a D600 (yes it is a Dell) script, but the user tries to xinit screen 1, not 0. I think the only solution is to crash X and then bring it back up after suspending (which defeats completely the reason I want to suspend in the first place.) The other side is that I can as stated in other messages, use the Radeon driver supplied by Fedora and suspend and resume. However, I get hit with the power consumption bug in those drivers.

All:

I decided to compile in R128 support and disable DRI in xorg.conf. Now it appears to work. I have to try suspending and hibernating. -- James McKenzie With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2 and ibm-acpi .1 Need a home for my .rpm