ATI Radeon M10 woes

[Tim Currie <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!
  I've posted about this before, but since the message was completely 
ignored, I'm going to try again. I apologize for repeating myself, but 
I've spent the last month trying to solve this myself, to no avail.

  I've got a shiny new Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop with an ATI Radeon 
Mobility 9000 (M10 I think; lspci reports 0x4e50), running Red Hat 9.0. 
I've managed to get XFree86 running with the VESA driver at 1600x1200. 
I've tried a number of things to get it to run in the native mode of 
1920x1200, but with no success. I've googled it to death and found a 
variety of seemingly hopeful suggestions, none of which have helped. 
Some of the things I've tried include: adding custom modelines in the 
display section and referencing them in the screen section; defining new 
modes; installing various custom radeon drivers (including one or more 
from Mike Harris' ftp); and screaming loudly at it (while this was, 
admittedly, one of the less-effective solutions, it was more satisfying 
than any of the others).

  The proprietary ATI drivers don't work at all. They install fine, but 
when I attempt to start XFree86 the screen turns an unwholesome blotchy 
grey and the computer locks up tight. This, by the way, is the same 
thing that happens whenever I try ANY radeon-specific driver, regardless 
of it's source.

Thanks for any help you can offer,

-Tim

--
Proprietary software is like petrified wood. It used to be alive, but
then it was fixed in time and put in a box. GNU/Linux software, in
contrast, is alive, always changing and improving. I love that it's
more a process than a product.
                       - Pamela Jones, groklaw.net


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