[CentOS] Radeon graphics problems with CentOS 6.6

Tue Jan 6 14:17:09 UTC 2015
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane <todd.denniston at navy.mil>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darby Vicker [mailto:darby.vicker at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 12:24 AM
> To: centos at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday, December 20, 2014, Darby Vicker <darby.vicker at 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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