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....
mark
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.
mark
Hey Mark,
never got this hard problems.
But:
Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM
OEM Cards sometimes needs a hack to be running on offical fglrx driver. Did it in the past on some HP rebranded ATI cards.
can you send lspcik, mine looks like -------------------------------------------------------------------------
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Tahiti XTL [Radeon R9 280X DirectCU II TOP] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29 Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at f7e00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?> Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [270] #19 Capabilities: [2b0] Address Translation Service (ATS) Capabilities: [2c0] Page Request Interface (PRI) Capabilities: [2d0] Process Address Space ID (PASID) Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon -------------------------------------------------------------------
You machine from a oem reseller ???.
Sincerely
Andy
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