On 4/2/06, hansel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <hansel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My laptop (radeon 7500 CRT video) will not output video to a CRT. Text > (boot screen, text terminal) works. > > When an FC4 workstation with radeon 7500 RV200, dual head, installed (yum, > cron job) the newest kernel (2.6.16-1.2069_FC4), all X11 does is clone the > display. Rebooting to 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 solves this. > > It smells to me like an xorg configuration issue. The laptop (which is not > physically where I sit) has no explicit LCD/CRT reference. (The gateway > bios correctly says use both LCD and CRT for video.) The workstation > defines two screens, but does not use the framebuffer (there was no fb for > the radeon family when I initially set up this machine). The radeon > driver man page now refers to fb. > > On the other hand, the workstation issue did not appear until 16-1.2069 > and reverting a version makes it go away. > > I am not at the point of treating this as a bug, hence have not made a > bugzilla report, but I need to fix the laptop issue very soon (like, > very desirable to be done before Monday AM ). > > Thanks. > > Mark Hansel > You upgraded the kernel. Have you upgraded the ATI driver?
