Bug 466042

Summary: ati driver preventing gdm startup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: medium    
Version: rawhideCC: mcepl, scmuser, xgl-maint
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Description Clyde E. Kunkel 2008-10-07 20:50:09 UTC 
Created attachment 319696 [details]
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Description of problem:
Cannot start desktop via gdm logon with xorg-x11-drv-ati

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-21.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot system
2. wait for gdm, never shows
3.
  
Actual results:
no gdm, blank screen, monitor indicates no signal

Expected results:
gdm

Additional info:
Same (probably) failure with FC10 beta during first boot.

Last working ati driver was xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-21.fc10.i386.rpm

Have to use radeonhd driver to get gdm to function. Radeon hd 2600 graphics card on ASUS P5k-E wifi mobo.

With ati driver, can get to a tty, and startx shows xserver is running.

Attaching a screen shot from fc10 beta firstboot, may have some info.

Hardware: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_c56eb702-9626-489a-ba78-14d9fa44cddc
Comment 1 scmuser 2008-10-08 03:46:40 UTC 
I have a Biostar TA780G M2+ motherboard and I get similar results.

i don't get gdm but a blank screen and after about 20-30 seconds I see Fatal IO error 11 (Resource Temporary Unavailable) and the system shuts down.

I was using F10 beta (x84_64). 

I'd actually bump this issue to "high" since this is a installation failure for most (?) ATI users.
Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-10-08 16:20:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 464896 ***