I Just installed Fedora Core 5 (and all the package updates) on
pretty standard Dell box. I have an AGP Radeon 9200PRO video
card and it is giving me problems. My monitor is a Dell 2000
flat panel connected via DVI, there is nothing on the VGA port
of the graphics card.
With the default configuration, the X server will start up, but the
screen will continually blank at the xdm login screen. In fact it
is blank 99% of the time. If I disable dri in the X config file,
I can get the display to stabilize somewhat, but after I log in,
any window title redraw, or mouse refocus, or window scroll causes
the screen to blank again momentarily.
I have disabled all acceleration in the X config file using
Option "NoAccel" "true"
This gets rid of the screen blanking, but performance is terrible,
I tried various other config changes, but none of them helped.
This all used to work just fine with Fedora Core 4. It also works
reasonably well with KDE, it is gnome which appears to use the
features of X which do not work.
Some config file snippets:
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.5.7) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets:
....
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
(II) RADEON(0): initializing int10
(II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9200PRO 5960 (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5960)
(--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xf0000000
(--) RADEON(0): BIOS at 0x80000000
(--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kByte (64 bit DDR SDRAM)
(II) RADEON(0): AGP card detected
(II) RADEON(0): Color tiling enabled by default
......
(II) RADEON(0): BIOS HotKeys Disabled
(WW) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled, not initializing the DRI
(II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default
(II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1600,8191)
(II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1200) to (1600,1202)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1600 x 6989
(II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled
(==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
(==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1202)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1600 x 6986
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
(II) RADEON(0): No video input capabilities detected and no information is
provided - disabling multimedia i2c
(II) Loading sub module "theatre_detect"
(II) LoadModule: "theatre_detect"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/multimedia/theatre_detect_drv.so
(II) Module theatre_detect: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
(II) RADEON(0): no multimedia table present, disabling Rage Theatre.
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(==) RandR enabled
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Steve Lord
