Q re /usr/share/hwdata files

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
>  >On Friday 04 April 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>  Humm, I think I'm talking to myself here.  Please don't call the guys in the
>  white jackets just yet.
>
>  >>On Thursday 03 April 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>  >>>On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:52:26PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>  >>>> I note, in mucking around in the yumex database, that there is no
>  >>>> radeonhd.xinf file in xorg-x11-drv-ati or in  xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd.
>  >>>
>  >>>That would be a distribution issue, not an xorg one.
>  >>
>  >>Oh?  You are saying there is one if I build from src?
>  >>
>  >>>> I'm attempting to see if I can figure out how to restore my tty1 console
>  >>>> when I exit x.  As it is, the video totally stops and the monitor shuts
>  >>>> down when I exit x now.  No consoles are available of the 6 default
>  >>>> ones. The only action I tried so far is to blindly type reboot, or the
>  >>>> vulcan nerve pinch on ctl-alt-del.  It may be possible to re-'startx',
>  >>>> and I will try that the next time I reboot.
>  >>>
>  >>>And that sounds like radeonhd failing to reprogram the mode correctly on
>  >>>exit, which you're not going to solve with any number of configuration
>  >>>files. Have you tried radeon, to see whether it's a general bug or one
>  >>>specific to a driver?
>  >>
>  >>Once, x refused to start.  It is installed.  Was I miss-configured?
>  >>
>  >>Thanks.
>  >
>  >I must have been, your question prompted me to remove the hd from radeonhd
>  > in the .conf, stop x and type 'startx'.  I'm running on it now, but tvtime
>  > and such is still dead.  glxinfo says dri is still foobar too.  And, TBT, I
>  > can't see any difference in how the two different drivers are actually
>  > working. glxgears still says about 350.  I'll save this and see if I have a
>  > tty1 when I quit X now, brb.
>  >
>  >Short answer, no.  But this was not a restart from a good screen either,
>  > which may make this test moot.
>
>  After a reboot, once x has been run on this 2400HD card, there will be no more
>  vga video until the next reboot, that mode is not being re-enabled at x
>  quitting time.  But with either driver, you can blindly restart x with a
>  startx just fine, and really fast, like maybe 2 seconds max.
>
>  Another bit of info, not directly related, but something to pass on here.
>  Because neither the radeon nor the radeonhd drivers support the video overlay
>  mode that stuff like tvtime and xine use, if there are any xine or gxine
>  plugins in the plugns dir for the beta firefoxes, they will turn into a
>  crash-o-matic monster, spinning their wheels at 0 cpu forever.

Sounds like an application bug.

>
>  Is this missing video overlay mode (and the dri too) being actively worked on?
>  Or has ATI not yet output the docs to allow it?
>

We are working on getting the 3D documents released for the r6xx
chips.  Once they are released it will take some time to add support
for textured video.

>  Is there an ATI based card that sells for under a big buck, available yet that
>  these drivers do fully support?

Every ati card except r6xx chips has support for Xv (either via
overlay or textured video or both depending on the chip).

Alex