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From: pebolle(a)tiscali.nl
To: remotestar(a)live.com
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:38:44 +0200
CC: fedora-kernel-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Building kernel-2.6.31-0.190 rawhide in F11
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 22:08 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote:
> Build, instal and boot went fine, except radeon driver does not work.
> Radeon works just fine in 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i586, but not
> in 2.6.31-0.190...
That could be some sort of mismatch between that Rawhide kernel and the
F11 X Server you seem to use (Rawhide currently uses X.Org X Server
1.6.99.1). I'd try one of the following kernel command line options:
nomodeset
radeon.modeset=0
Those could be used to work around some issues with Rawhide's Radeon
kernel driver (or Rawhide's Radeon X module, or whatever) a few weeks
back. (It' s just a guess though. I hardly know anything about the way
the kernel and the X Server interact.)
Paul Bolle
Thank you Paul.
nomodeset was accepted as a boot arg. radeon.modeset=0 was not recognized as a valid boot
arg.
However, nomodeset did the trick. I now have X up under the auspices
of kernel-2.6.31-rc8.fc11.i586
Other observations:
after I edited the boot args and added the nomodeset radeo.moseset=0
and pressed b to boot, it took almost 3 minutes to get the login prompt.
Even after logging in, it took more than 1 minute to populate the screen with all my
icons: about 55 of them.
Also, starting up Firefox and thunderbird also took considerably longer.
Sorry for not providing an objective time value in terms of how much
slower they started - should have timed them !
To provide some comparison with other kernels:
2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i586 boots to the login prompt in 1.5 minutes.
2.6.29.5.191.fc11.586 booted to login prompt in 38 seconds.
On same dual boot machine, Windows XP boots to login prompt in
30 seconds.
Cheers,
MK
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