2012/9/14 Fabio Erculiani <lx...@sabayon.org>: > Danilo, > let me see. What fix I was supposed to implement to have HD4xxx working? > Complaints about non-working hardware should be filed upstream, not to > the distro. > However, in this case, upstream clearly told me that non-KMS setups > are NOT supported anymore.
Fabio, I am NOT complaining about that. I was just reporting. Clearly stating "too bad, this is not possible to fix" is enough for me. > Accept the trade-off for now. On certain hardware you are required to > do boot arguments trickery on Linux. While unfortunate, this is how > life goes. Yep. Shit happens. > My decision to enable KMS by default has also been affected by > upstream decisions. And I agree with that. I was thinking we were going that way also for S10, that's why I was expecting that card to work and I reported. But now I got that this will happen with kernel 3.6. As I said, it's just a lack of coordination among testers. > Simple Fabio Q&A about fglrx vs radeon: > Is there anything I can do? Not much. > Does this suck? Yes it does. > Is there anything I can do given it does suck? Not really. > What I've been always willed to do? Provide the best OOTB experience I can do. > What can't I do? Miracles. > What do other distros do? Enable KMS by default and force people to > use "nomodeset" > Are there other distros hitting the same issues? Yes, there are > Does this suck (2)? Yes it does > Will the situation improve in future? Yes, once I enable KMS > What can we do in order to support HD4xxx and fglrx users? Write a > "knowledge base" and provide the release announcements with > AMD-related boot tricks. > Are you willing to write simple directions that I can append to the > release announcement, about how to make this hardware work? (Say: > remove vga=xxx, append radeon.blah, etc?) Yes, I will collaborate. Can anybody confirm that removing vga=791 makes the system boot? Joost? You had a HD4870, right? -- Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini Site: http://www.danilopianini.org/ Phone: +39 320 41 36 573 Skype: dany.sk
