Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 250690
Video modes do not work properly with ATI ES1000/RN50 on RHEL3 U9
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:10 EST
Description of problem: When installing RHEL 3 Update 9 on an IBM x3650 (type 7979-AC1) server, the Radeon driver is selected but it does not produce a readable video output. (It is very "shimmery") Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): radeon_driver.c shows a release of 1.91 at the top of the file, but the date is from 2003. (The component is the version that installs standard with RHEL 3 U9.) How reproducible: Always reproducible Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RHEL 3 Update 9 Actual Results: When X Windows starts, there is poor (useless) video. Workaround is to use the Vesa driver. Additional info: This may be related to bug 189927; however, access to the bug is denied to me.
Created attachment 160555 [details] log file from XFree86
The attachment above is the XFree86 log file correpsonding to starting X Windows with the Radeon driver on the hardware and OS described in Comment #1.
Just to be sure -- could we get /etc/X11/xorg.conf as well, please?
Created attachment 207511 [details] Problematic (almost) XF86Config file Attached is the closest XF86Config I can find. I'm fairly sure that it's the same as the automatically-configured one with the exception that I've modified the driver to be "vesa" instead of "radeon". If necessary, I can probably generate another copy of the problematic config file using the display settings utility and selecting the default (i.e., automatically detected) values. (I no longer have ready access to the console.)
Of course, silly me, I am sorry, this is RHEL 3, so you have still good old XFree86.
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