Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 20:22 -0700, John Reiser wrote: Peter, how in general do you want to proceed where we have documented cases of graphics mode setting failure in grub2? Do you want individual bug reports for each affected bit of hardware? Downstream, upstream? What kind of info should

Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Jones
On 05/26/2012 10:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 19:00 +, Andre Robatino wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe at gmail.com writes: The problem is that grub2 selects inappropriate video modes for ATI cards The GFXMODE variable preselects a mode for grub2. I've had to do

Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 10:00 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 20:22 -0700, John Reiser wrote: Peter, how in general do you want to proceed where we have documented cases of graphics mode setting failure in grub2? Do you want individual bug reports for each affected bit of

Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 10:34 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: On 05/26/2012 10:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 19:00 +, Andre Robatino wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe at gmail.com writes: The problem is that grub2 selects inappropriate video modes for ATI cards The

Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-26 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 05/26/2012 03:43 AM, Allen Halsey wrote: I found xorg-x11-drv-r128-6.8.2-1.fc17.i686.rpm in the Fedora 17 repo. I installed it and rebooted. As before, I couldn't see the Grub menu, but eventually I was presented the graphical Welcome screen and the system runs well. How can I get the grub

Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 04:52 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: The problem is that grub2 selects inappropriate video modes for ATI cards This is too broad. Effectively grub2 tries to do modesetting, much the same as X will; it tries to figure an appropriate graphical mode for the card/monitor

Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-26 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/05/26 09:50 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: The problem is that grub2 selects inappropriate video modes for ATI cards This is too broad. Effectively grub2 tries to do modesetting, much the same as X will; it tries to figure an appropriate graphical

Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 19:00 +, Andre Robatino wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe at gmail.com writes: The problem is that grub2 selects inappropriate video modes for ATI cards The GFXMODE variable preselects a mode for grub2. I've had to do this for a Radeon card. I see this with a

Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-26 Thread John Reiser
Peter, how in general do you want to proceed where we have documented cases of graphics mode setting failure in grub2? Do you want individual bug reports for each affected bit of hardware? Downstream, upstream? What kind of info should be included? Thanks! What's not good enough about using