Hi wxl, Not much help I know, but R500 appears to be well supported. <http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature> VGACON is odd. Any chance an extra onboard GPU is getting detected? lsmod show anything besides radeon like i915? Does dmesg | grep -i drm show anything interesting?
Str8 On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:56 PM, ∅ <[email protected]> wrote: > i think i just figured out the problem i've been having since quantal: kms > only on radeon. fallback to vesa has meant all sorts of problems like > completely corrupted video on return from suspend. i guess for whatever > resaon my Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV515/M54 [Mobility Radeon > X1400] [1002:7145] doesn't support it as: > $ dmesg | grep "kernel modesetting" > [ 2.364231] [drm] VGACON disable radeon kernel modesetting. > $ grep KMS /var/log/Xorg.0.log > [ 33.036] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. > so i guess i need to install catalyst. boo. this seems to be poorly > documented on the ubuntu wiki. there's supposed to be this page: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting > but it doesn't exist. > anyone else have any insight or thoughts before i go and install this > proprietary junk? > wxl > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:24:23 -0500 > Str8bs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Not sure if this is the proper list for this. >> >> Attached is my attempt at getting iMac G3's working with as few steps >> and typing as possible. If anyone thinks it wiki worthy, please feel >> free. I know some of it is in the PPC FAQ already. >> >> Also, X86 users with old cards hit by the removal of XAA >> (Rage,SIS,Trident,etc.) may find this workaround easier than removing >> the driver and falling back to Vesa. >> Create simple /etc/X11/xorg.conf >> ______________________________ >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "AnyWordThatAmusesYou" >> Option "NoAccel" "True" >> EndSection >> ______________________________ >> >> BTW, my current "lowest spec success" running Lubuntu 13.04: >> 1999 iMac G3 333 with a whopping 160 Meg of Ram. >> Needless to say it is slow with that little ram, but it runs and can >> browse the web. :) >> >> Regards, >> Str8 > > > -- > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
