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Joost Roeleveld writes: |
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> On Thursday 26 August 2010 02:11:44 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > I think I just found the problem! I decided to give the open source |
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> > ATI drivers a try again, and replaced 'fglrx' by 'radeon' in my |
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> > xorg.conf. And all is fast now. Wow. I had already forgotten how |
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> > fast a desktop should be. |
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> > I'm not yet sure all is fine. On the first start, kwin crashed and |
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> > all windows were on the first desktop, this never happened before. |
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> > But it's working on the second login. I have no direct rendering, |
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> > Xorg.0.log shows (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed |
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> > (libdri too old). I had this before with xorg-server-1.7.7, now I'm |
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> > emerging 1.8.2. Stay tuned. |
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> > Wonko |
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> Ok, looks like your video-driver was using up too much resources. |
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> Either with all the desktop-effects or with something else. |
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I often had desktop effects turned off. |
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> I can't help further with ATI-issues as I don't use them myself. |
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> I do know that I need to change more then just the driver in my |
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> xorg.conf when using nvidie-drivers. Am wondering if your crashes |
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> occured because of a similar issue. |
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> Eg. the "dri" module is only for the ATI-driver and not for the |
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> open-source one? |
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I did not configure modules like dri in my xorg.conf, this seems tzo work |
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automatically. With ati-drivers, I got errors in Xorg.0.log about dri and |
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dri2 missing, apparently those come with the fglrx driver. With radeon, I |
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get messages that dr and dri2 are loaded. |
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So I only had to replace 'fglrx' by 'radeon' inthe device section. |
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And to reboot. Or something. At least it did not work until I did that. I |
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had loaded the drm kernel module by hand, so this was not the problem. |
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Whatever, I'm glad the radeon driver is runnign fine now, for the first |
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time after several tries. |
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Wonko |