I was not surprised to have to do a little extra to get it working – the FireGL V5200 support has required tweaking for many versions of Fedora.
I ran into the same issue as an NVIDIA install – bootup hung after installing XEN step 3 (this is a reboot to text X).
Some internet research indicates there are some Xen related radeon issues.
I was able to get past this step by modifying the NVDIA instructions as follows:
After bootup of failsafe and init 3 to get to a clean root environment download the radeonhd driver
Yum install xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd
Then do the X –configure step and modify the radeon driver to be a radeonhd driver
Add a nomodeset to the end of the first module line of the grub.conf for the Xen kernel (module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-7.pvops0.qubes.x86_64
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So, did you get the h/w accell working? E.g. can you enable "desktop
effects" in KDE or GNOME in Dom0?
joanna.
I tested under KDE and desktop effects seem to work.
Actually – I am very impressed with the system stability – for an Alpha release it’s rock solid.
Performance is also very good.