Request for Testing of Installer X Configuration on PPC

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 08:22 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 12:44 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > Apparently some radeon 7000s (I can't reproduce the 
> > regression on my radeon 7000 box) require the 6.7.0 clock setup to work, 
> > so I put back the patch we used with 6.8.1, which is what we have now.
> 
> What we have now will lock my laptop up hard. 6.8.1 with the same
> configuration works.
> 
> > David, thanks for building the RPMs with Bens patches and posting it in 
> > the bug, I've been meaning to do that.  If these patches work well, 
> > we'll included them in FC5, but I'm reluctant to change this much for FC4.
> 
> A relatively simple workaround for FC4 might be for rhpl to turn
> DynamicClocks _on_ for the Radeon -- perhaps only on PPC, or when it
> finds that the kernel has done so.

Put them ON unconditionally on ppc. I yet have to get a report of a
problem related to dynamic clocks on these. I'd be curious if your DELL
still crashes with my patches too btw.

Ben