On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:16 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 11:03 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:16:17 +1100, Rodd wrote:
xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd-1.3.0-3.15.20091112git.fc12 (FEDORA-2009-11518) Xorg X11 radeonhd driver for AMD GPG r5xx/r6xx Chipsets
Fixes backlight issue, and other things.
Hmmm, I tried this build and it doesn't work for me.
It seems to want to, but I just see lines down the screen and a large square enmeshed in the screen where the cursor should be.
Yes, I know I shouldn't be using radeonhd and that radeon is the 'one true driver' but radeonhd has had some interesting power management added to it and as a laptop user I'm keen to see if they extend my (slowly) improving battery life and I'm also aware the pm in radeon isn't great (or might be missing all together).
So, this shouldn't be rolled out as far as I'm concerned, but how do I say so?
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I saw you commented in the right place -
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-11518
but you should probably specify whether this is a regression, i.e., whether you have the same issue with the radeonhd in the f12 release repos. If you do, then that wouldn't really be a reason not to push the update.
I don't know whether it's a regression or not since I haven't used the radeonhd drivers for some time since someone told me that fedora is behind the radeon driver and to use this.
I was just trying it as I was hoping the pm issues might be better.
How long before radeon and radeonhd get merged? It seems ridiculous that we have parallel development of the very similar drivers.
R.