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walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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> mention one more very confusing detail that I had to fix before I got |
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> the open- 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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It's good to know that I'm not the only one with a week memory. Every |
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day I thank God for these little yellow post-it stickers. :-) |
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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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That's strange. What kind of GPU do you have? With my R7 250E I must |
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use "radeon" as driver in xorg.conf. IIRC I also used the same config |
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for my old GPU (Radeon HD4550). |
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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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That's ok. It's the same on my system. |
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BTW: I don't use any kernel modules at all. |
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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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Below you find my complete xorg.conf. Actually I don't know if my X |
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would also work without the device section. What I remember is that |
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I had trouble to get my keyboard working without the InputDevice |
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section. But this is some years ago. Meanwhile I have a new keyboard |
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and maybe I don't need a xorg.conf anymore. |
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I will test this soon, if I don't forget it. :-) |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Driver "kbd" |
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Identifier "Keyboard[0]" |
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Option "AutoRepeat" "500 2" |
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Option "Protocol" "Standard" |
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Option "XkbModel" "pc105" |
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Option "XkbLayout" "de" |
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Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Device" |
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Identifier "ATI-Card" |
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Driver "radeon" |
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EndSection |
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-- |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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