Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X, still fighting [SOLVED]

2016-12-19 Thread Andreas Benzler
Hey Mark, never got this hard problems. But: Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM OEM Cards sometimes needs a hack to be running on offical fglrx driver. Did it in the past on some HP rebranded ATI cards. can you send lspcik, mine looks like

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X, still fighting [SOLVED]

2016-12-19 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Still trying to get it running. Updated CentOS 7, ATI video card, trying > to use the radeon driver, and, using the previous kernel, X appears to > come up, but gdm fails; with the 514 kernel, X fails to start. > > And here's a twist: I just rebooted, with

[CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X, still fighting

2016-12-19 Thread m . roth
Still trying to get it running. Updated CentOS 7, ATI video card, trying to use the radeon driver, and, using the previous kernel, X appears to come up, but gdm fails; with the 514 kernel, X fails to start. And here's a twist: I just rebooted, with radeon.modeset=1 on the kernel line... and for

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Andreas Benzler
Mark, as a side node take a look into /usr/lib/modprobe.d/ fglrx take a blacklist for the radeon driver in the past sincerely Andy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Andreas Benzler
Hallo mark, I have compiled nvidia, intel and radeon (amdgpu) into my system. You can take a look at it: http://centos.cms4all.org/repo/7/drivers/ I run my machine with the current stable kernel 4.8.15 http://centos.cms4all.org/repo/7/kernel/ For some tests i run winehq and other

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread m . roth
Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:08:52AM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I've tried removing the xorg.conf, and renaming >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf, which was there (I didn't put it >> there when I built the box a few months ago.) > > This makes me think it has

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:08:52AM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I've tried removing the xorg.conf, and renaming > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf, which was there (I didn't put it there > when I built the box a few months ago.) This makes me think it has the 3rd-party fglrx drivers

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread m . roth
Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Mark, > > On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 11:08 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I don't see any errors in dmesg or messages, and I've tried reinstalling >> xorg-x11-drv-ati, which gives me >> xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.1-3.20160215gitd41fccc.el7.x86_64. >> >> Does anyone

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Fri, December 16, 2016 10:08 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> A user running gnome came in this morning, clicked on the application >> menu... and it was much shorter than he expected. He could get to >> firefox, and googled about refreshing that... and found something

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Mark, On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 11:08 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I don't see any errors in dmesg or messages, and I've tried reinstalling > xorg-x11-drv-ati, which gives me > xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.1-3.20160215gitd41fccc.el7.x86_64. > > Does anyone have any ideas on this? I can't even get

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, December 16, 2016 10:08 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > A user running gnome came in this morning, clicked on the application > menu... and it was much shorter than he expected. He could get to firefox, > and googled about refreshing that... and found something that told him to > reboot. >

[CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread m . roth
A user running gnome came in this morning, clicked on the application menu... and it was much shorter than he expected. He could get to firefox, and googled about refreshing that... and found something that told him to reboot. And that's it: I cannot get X up, at all. I just get the "oh, no,