On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Darby Vicker <darby.vicker at gmail.com> wrote:> On Saturday, December 20, 2014, Darby Vicker <darby.vicker at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I thought about trying centos 7. But in the end that doesn't really >> help me since I'm trying to keep my current centos 6 installation >> working. I don't really have the time/energy to reinstall everyting >> under CentOS 7 right now. >> >> I was able to get a 6.6 LiveCD built myself. The liveCD has the same >> problem - X doesn't work. I can boot the "Basic Video" option from the >> LiveCD and I can at least get to the desktop but there are several odd >> video problems when I do that. But I think that means that there is a >> genuine problem with Xorg on my hardware. Does anyone know who I should >> submit this bug to - AMD or Xorg? >> >> Any other ideas for workarounds in the mean time? >> > > The xorg ati developer doesn't think it's a driver problem. > > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2014-December/026948.html > > Any other ideas for tracking this down?After a little more conversation with the ati developer, he thinks its a problem with the kernel. http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2015-January/026986.html He is suggesting I get in touch with the people who maintain the CentOS kernel. What is the best way to do this? Submit a bug on https://bugs.centos.org?
On 1/5/2015 9:24 PM, Darby Vicker wrote:> He is suggesting I get in touch with the people who maintain the > CentOS kernel.that would be Red Hat, unless you're talking about the CentOS Plus kernel.... -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
2015-Jan-06 14:17 UTC
[CentOS] Radeon graphics problems with CentOS 6.6
> -----Original Message----- > From: Darby Vicker [mailto:darby.vicker at gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 12:24 AM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Radeon graphics problems with CentOS 6.6 > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Darby Vicker <darby.vicker at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday, December 20, 2014, Darby Vicker <darby.vicker at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I thought about trying centos 7. But in the end that doesn't really > >> help me since I'm trying to keep my current centos 6 installation > >> working. I don't really have the time/energy to reinstall everyting > >> under CentOS 7 right now. > >> > >> I was able to get a 6.6 LiveCD built myself. The liveCD has the same > >> problem - X doesn't work. I can boot the "Basic Video" option from the > >> LiveCD and I can at least get to the desktop but there are several odd > >> video problems when I do that. But I think that means that there is a > >> genuine problem with Xorg on my hardware. Does anyone know who I should > >> submit this bug to - AMD or Xorg? > >> > >> Any other ideas for workarounds in the mean time? > >> > > > > The xorg ati developer doesn't think it's a driver problem. > > > > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2014-December/026948.html > > > > Any other ideas for tracking this down? > > After a little more conversation with the ati developer, he thinks its > a problem with the kernel. > > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2015-January/026986.html > > He is suggesting I get in touch with the people who maintain the > CentOS kernel. What is the best way to do this? Submit a bug on > https://bugs.centos.org?Two things I think you should consider doing... 1) in your next post (and any bugs you open), include the `uname -a` of the last known to work correctly CentOS/RHEL kernel, and the `uname -a` of the first known to not work correctly CentOS/RHEL kernel and the respective versions of radeon &| flrgx drivers. 2) try out elrepo's el6 kernel-lt & kernel-ml and see if they work correctly for you. I suggest this, because for me it did workaround an issue with intel chips (I guess I need to see what it will take to get the elrepo folks to make just a back-ported intel driver from 3.17 [first known to work again, 3.16 does not]) . http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-November/147579.html Even when this disclaimer is not here: I am not a contracting officer. I do not have authority to make or modify the terms of any contract.
On 01/05/2015 11:26 PM, John R Pierce wrote:> On 1/5/2015 9:24 PM, Darby Vicker wrote: >> He is suggesting I get in touch with the people who maintain the >> CentOS kernel. > > that would be Red Hat, unless you're talking about the CentOS Plus > kernel.... > > >This is correct .. we rebuild the RHEL 6.6 kernel source code as is, if this is a kernel problem, we don't change it. But .. IF the kernel does NEED a change, then the CentOSPlus kernel would be the place where we have the ability to add patches and change something. We don't change the base OS kernel except to remove branding. AKemi Yagi is our CentOS Plus maintainer, and bug/patch requests can be entered here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4586 But, we do not provide technical support .. we have a community forum and bugs system to allow the community to discuss and solve problems. We will try/roll in patches (into CentOS Plus kernel) to try and fix problems if a solution is proposed by the community. However, we don't do the research or development. What I am trying to convey is that CentOS rebuilds upstream source code and provides resources for the community to solve their own problems. CentOS does not provide SLA level support. That is what RHEL is for. We will be glad to help the community find the problem, and feed back the fix upstream to Red Hat so they can fix it in RHEL and then we can roll it into our main OS kernel. And we will provide a temporary fix in the CentOS Plus kernel. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20150106/4f145487/attachment-0001.sig>