m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Still trying to get it running. Updated CentOS 7, ATI video card, trying to use the radeon driver, and, using the previous kernel, X appears to come up, but gdm fails; with the 514 kernel, X fails to start.
And here's a twist: I just rebooted, with radeon.modeset=1 on the kernel line... and for no reason I know of, I get *six* logs, Xorg.[0-5].log. Does this suggest anything to anyone? I can't imagine it's trying to start X six times....
Never mind folks. You'll love this: I figured I'd try the proprietary drivers. I d/l that, rsync it onto his machine, init 3, start to install - it's an actual rpm, and it complains it conflicts with the kmod-fglrx. So, I uninstall that. I clean up /etc/X11 to pristine, and then - I was on the previous kernel, the one that cured mad COW, because X at least tried to come up with that - decide to reboot to the current, 514 kernel, and run the install against that.
So I reboot (from my desk, having done all that remotely, and a couple minutes later, over my cube wall, I hear, "shall I just log in?"
With kmod-fglrx, it had come up, without the proprietary drives, both monitors active, all is wonderful.
AAAARRRGHGHGHGGHGH!!!
Season's greetings to all, and *please*, may the next year be better than the old.
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