[CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

Fri Oct 25 11:43:10 UTC 2013
SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:57 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> 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).
>

I don't reboot my machine each time a new kernel is released.
And that machine just indicated it has updates (including that kernel
version).  Updating packages as I write this.

So for two reasons I wasn't running the latest and greatest kernel.


> >
> > 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,
>

No xorg.conf


> what's your kernel line in grub look like? Oh, and for the third of two
>

linux   /vmlinuz-3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-rootfs ro rd.md=0
rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg0/swap rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us
vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=vg0/rootfs rhgb quiet
LANG=en_US.UTF-8


> questions, do you have radeon blacklisted, or nomodeset, anywhere?
>

I do not have radeon blacklisted, nor do I have nomodeset.

If it's worth saying, I didn't have to fiddle with the display adapter or
any other piece of hardware when I set this particular machine up.  As one
would hope, it was a hands off install (smooth and painless).


> >>
> >> > 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*.


>      mark
>
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