On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 00:43 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 22:41 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > What kind of RAID is it? > > SATA? SCSI? > > What chipset are you using? > > Motherboard? > > > > - Gilboa > > > > It has raid on the MOBO but I don't remember how we set it up originally > (way back when with Fedora 3). I don't remember if we used the raid on > the MOBO or did it via software. [snip] > 03:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 > [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) OK, it looks like a semi-software Silicon Image SATA RAID. I'd disable it and create a software RAID instead. (Better performance; can can be used on other machines; etc) > As I said previously, once I switched to the vesa driver, I get a 1280x > 1040 display. I looked at the X log when trying the radeon driver - I > don't see any problems - it correctly identifies the monitor as a Dell > P1110 and knows that it can do up to 1800x1440. But when using the > radeon driver with Fedora 8, the display looks like old analog TV with a > rolling, distorted screen that is unusable. (It works fine under Fedora > 7 and all the way back to Fedora 3). Can't help you there. I have little experience with AMD/ATI cards. I'd suggest you file a bug report in http://bugzilla.redhat.com . (And attach a screen shot - if you have digital camera - for good measure) > > I got nowhere with the ATI proprietary flgrx driver (from their web > page) but was able to install this via an rpm from livna. I did this > remotely so I won't be able to really try this driver until I go back to > the office on Monday. Good luck! - Gilboa
