Bug 692567

Summary:	FC15 Alpha
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	mikemc-redhat
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	15	CC:	airlied, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description mikemc-redhat 2011-03-31 15:24:20 UTC

Description of problem:

The display driver in the .38 kernel for AMD zacate chips (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion#.22Zacate.22_.2840nm.29) in FC15 Alpha is unusable.  The screen flickers white lines.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/test/15-Alpha/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/kernel-2.6.38-0.rc5.git1.1.fc15.x86_64.rpm


How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot FC15 alpha live cd
2. 
3.
  
Actual results:

Flickering unusable screen

Expected results:

Working screen

Additional info:

Loading the basic video driver option works.  Looks like upstream may have a fix for this: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?36649-Open-Source-AMD-Fusion-E-350-Support-Takes-A-Dive/page2  May be easy to incorporate for FC15.

Comment 1 Dave Airlie 2011-03-31 23:34:10 UTC

can you retry with a later fc15 kernel?

Comment 2 mikemc-redhat 2011-04-01 00:11:10 UTC

That would require installing fc15 i think.  Is there a way to load another kernel off a live cd?  Are there nightly live cd builds somewhere?

Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2011-04-03 18:57:39 UTC

> Are there nightly live cd builds somewhere?

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/current.html

Comment 4 Chuck Ebbert 2011-04-04 00:13:54 UTC

That patch was merged before 2.6.38 release.