On Sunday 21 May 2006 12:08 am, BandiPat wrote:
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Bruce, I remember reading a blurb during the install about the Radeon cards. They are using a new radeon module this time that adds extra features, although not all cards support those features. If you are having trouble, did you try the radeonold module? That's suppose to bring things back.
sax2 -r -m 0=radeonold
I thought mine was going to need that at first, but my 9200 pro seems quite happy with the new module, in fact very happy from my fps readings.
Thanks.... I immediately went to try that.... but there is no radeonold module on the system. There's source for it in the kernel sources but no module was build apparently. So I tried to go back and boot 10.0 ( I had been running 10.1 and trying to put up with the crappy fonts at 1280x1024) Now 10.0 was hanging up too... as soon at it tried to go to level 5. Hmmm.... I didn't change anything, but both 10.1 and 10.0 share the same /home directory. Could it be that something is screwed up on my home directory now that prevents either system from starting graphics. I replace /home with a backup disk that I use that had a skeleton directory for my normal user. Went to init 5 (on 10.0) and it came right up! Ok, *most* things are working then on 10.0. I put my normal /home back and erase all the .DCOP* stuff, .Xauthority and .ICEauthority which were the only pertinent files that appeared to have changed in the last 24 hours. Went to init 5 again and I am back on 10.0 and 1600x1200. SOMETHING is drastically screwed up with graphics, or KDE or whatever on 10.1 and I don't think I am going to touch it again. If I do I am going to use a fresh /home partition and not let it mess with my normal /home. I thought for a minute that having /home messed up might be the problem in getting into 1600x1200 on 10.1 but when starting SAX2 from a CLI, it shouldn't have anything to do with anything on /home. So the graphics are messed up to start with. WHEW!!!!! I feel fortunate just to get back to 10.0 without having lost anything. It will be interesting to see how many other people suffer er, share the same fate with 10.1.