[CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

SilverTip257 wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Patrick Lists <
> centos-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> > Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19
>> >  box. I updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be
>> >  supported any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620).
>>
> I have a system running Fedora 19 that has a RV620 video card in it.  It
> is using the radeon video driver and working just fine.
>
> ~]$ modinfo radeon | egrep -v 'firmware|alias|param'
> filename:
> /lib/modules/3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko
> license:        GPL and additional rights

3.11.4-201? From my reinstall, I have 3.11.1-200 and 3.11.6-200. No 201,
and no new update (I just did that as I saw this).
>
> Here's what I've got on a system I'm running.
>
> ~]$ lspci -vv -s 01:00.0 | egrep 'VGA|Kernel'; xrandr -q
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
> RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
>  Kernel driver in use: radeon
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192
> DIN disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DVI-0 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
> axis) 473mm x 296mm
>    1680x1050      60.0*+
>    1280x1024      75.0     60.0
>    1440x900       75.0     59.9
>    1280x960       60.0
>    1360x768       59.8
>    1152x864       75.0
>    1280x720       60.0
>    1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0
>    832x624        74.6
>    800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2
>    640x480        75.0     72.8     66.7     60.0
>    720x400        70.1
> DVI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Ok, so two things: first, do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Second,
what's your kernel line in grub look like? Oh, and for the third of two
questions, do you have radeon blacklisted, or nomodeset, anywhere?
>>
>> > The thing that drives me crazy is, when I reinstalled the whole
>> > system, whatever video driver the installer used for graphical install
>> > *worked*. So: does anyone have any idea a) what driver that uses, and
b) how to
>> > force grub2 to use it (or do I also need to do this to the initrd)?
>
> So you're seeing problems with the splash/loading screen?

You've added a ! where there was none. No, the graphical install displays
*perfectly*.

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