On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 19:20:24 +0000, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Haven't had a chance to gather much data on this, but on a machine at home > with a fairly old radeon card (might be a 9200 or 9600, I can't look right > now), debian etch has no problem running the display with the xorg radeon > driver it has, but fedora 8 can't talk to the display. > > When I look at the log file, I see it believes that it should be talking > to DDC_VGA (which isn't connected), doesn't find a monitor (which makes > sense), and refuses to talk. > > The log when I boot debian doesn't mention VGA at all, but goes right > to the DVI connector and works fine. > > Just wondered if this rings any bells for anyone before I kill a > lot of time to examine it in more detail. I had a similar problem that was fixed by the version of xorg-x11-drv-ati in updates. The versions that have appeared in updates-testing since then have broken things again. So if the one in updates fixes things for you, you may want to save a copy somewhere in case it ends up being replaced by a problem version later.
