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On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:10:28 +0200 |
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<wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote: |
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Kernel driver in use: radeon |
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Hi wabe. This whole radeon thing is so confusing I thought I'd mention |
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one more very confusing detail that I had to fix before I got the open- |
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source ati/radeon driver to work correctly: |
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First I tried starting my X session with no xorg.conf file at all. |
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That didn't work but of course I can't remember now what went wrong. |
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(That was already more than 24 hours ago :) |
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Then I generated an xorg.conf in the old way using 'Xorg -configure'. |
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That file didn't work right either. |
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Then I finally realized that the generated xorg.conf had, in the |
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Section "Device" section, this line: |
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Driver "radeon" |
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But that's not what we want. To use the open-source ati driver I |
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changed that line to read: |
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Driver "ati" |
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And that's when everything finally started to work perfectly. |
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One more thing that confused me: the xf86-video-ati package doesn't |
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install any kernel modules. It installs only these two files: |
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/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so |
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/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so |
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but to use those files you need that Driver "ati" line in xorg.conf. |
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<sigh> |
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