Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (600 mails)

[Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 Oct 2009 05:22:11 David C. Rankin wrote:
> On Saturday 10 October 2009 02:19:25 am Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 Oct 2009 00:57:11 Rajko M. wrote:
> > > On Friday 09 October 2009 01:53:37 Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > > > Wrong machine  ;-)
> > >
> > > Could be. I'm running M8 + Factory, but what I have forgotten is that I
> > > use xorg.conf while by default M8 doesn't. Try to run 'sax2 -m
> > > 0:radeon' and see if that solves problem.
> >
> > Nope seems it runs deeper than that after shutting the machine down over
> >  night it now will not boot init 5 only init 3  i  can then SOMETIMES get
> > X top run and KDE up but sure as i try to do anything it just bombs out
> > to the login .
> >
> > will have to try doing another zypper dup in a couple of days see if
> >  anything has been CORRECTED ! as it is plainly a failure to test
> > something to a reasonable standard  before it is pushed out .   11.0
> > still works ok so it is not an hardware problem  . this is not some
> > strange unusual machine it is a very common Compaq Presario V5030 sold by
> > the truck load
> >
> > Pete
>
> Pete,
>
>       Best you are going to do for your card is to go grab the latest radeonhd
> code from the git repository (and drm) and build drm and the radeonhd
> driver and install it. Simple enough. Just follow the directions at:
>
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd
>
>       Much better performance than the standard radeon or ati driver but still
> 600% poorer performance than the fglrx driver. Also heating is a problem
> with all drivers except the fglrx driver because the opensource drivers
> lack the proprietary downclocking and gpu powerdown of the fglrx driver.
> You will notice the difference on your palmrest...

Hi All 

well been away for a few days (no computers no phones  no noise no hassles  )
I have updated the lappy to to the RC1 still strange when booting  if i boot 
to init 3 log in as root then  run init 5 i can log into KDE ass user no 
problem and i seems to behave ok no konki crash  and the video driver (radeon) 
as supplied does not seem to be tooo bad ! bit snails pace but works .

However if i try to boot straight into graphics mode it freezes just after HAL  
and will not respond to anything but a hard reset , Cant find anything in the 
logs of use at all so ideas as to just how to go about trying to find out what 
is going on please ..

Pete .

(back in smelly dirty bad assed Briminghan for a while)

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