-----Original Message----- From: Darby Vicker [mailto:darby.vicker@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 12:24 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Radeon graphics problems with CentOS 6.6
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Darby Vicker darby.vicker@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, December 20, 2014, Darby Vicker darby.vicker@gmail.com wrote:
I thought about trying centos 7. But in the end that doesn't really help me since I'm trying to keep my current centos 6 installation working. I don't really have the time/energy to reinstall everyting under CentOS 7 right now.
I was able to get a 6.6 LiveCD built myself. The liveCD has the same problem - X doesn't work. I can boot the "Basic Video" option from the LiveCD and I can at least get to the desktop but there are several odd video problems when I do that. But I think that means that there is a genuine problem with Xorg on my hardware. Does anyone know who I should submit this bug to - AMD or Xorg?
Any other ideas for workarounds in the mean time?
The xorg ati developer doesn't think it's a driver problem.
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2014-December/026948.html
Any other ideas for tracking this down?
After a little more conversation with the ati developer, he thinks its a problem with the kernel.
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2015-January/026986.html
He is suggesting I get in touch with the people who maintain the CentOS kernel. What is the best way to do this? Submit a bug on https://bugs.centos.org?
Two things I think you should consider doing... 1) in your next post (and any bugs you open), include the `uname -a` of the last known to work correctly CentOS/RHEL kernel, and the `uname -a` of the first known to not work correctly CentOS/RHEL kernel and the respective versions of radeon &| flrgx drivers.
2) try out elrepo's el6 kernel-lt & kernel-ml and see if they work correctly for you. I suggest this, because for me it did workaround an issue with intel chips (I guess I need to see what it will take to get the elrepo folks to make just a back-ported intel driver from 3.17 [first known to work again, 3.16 does not]) . http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-November/147579.html
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