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Hello, |
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I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas about this. After some |
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tinkering around I've finally managed to get somewhat working |
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a setup with the xf86-video-ati (radeon) driver. |
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I am using a vanilla 2.6.30 kernel, xorg-server 1.6 and |
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x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.2. But I've tried many more |
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versions that range from stable to live builds of everything. |
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The results have been *exactly* the same, no matter which versions |
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do I consider. |
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The driver only works when I add this to my xorg.conf: |
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Option "DRI" "off" |
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According to the man page, dri should work with my card (and that's |
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why I have to explicitly disable it, indeed). I don't want fancy |
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cubes or stuff like that. My main concern about having dri off is |
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that xvideo doesn't work without it. 2d performance also sucks |
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which is definitely a bad thing. |
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When I have DRI on my screen is corrupted to the point that's |
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unusable, you can see it here: |
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http://jesgue.homelinux.org/other-files/foo.jpg |
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This is what you should see instead: |
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http://jesgue.homelinux.org/other-files/bar.jpg |
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This is the log: no errors, no nothing. It says it works nicely, |
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but it obviously doesn't. |
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http://pastebin.ca/1463295 |
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And my xorg.conf: |
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http://pastebin.ca/1463374 |
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Additional stuff: |
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# uname -a |
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Linux jesgue 2.6.30 #7 PREEMPT Fri Jun 12 01:26:58 CEST 2009 x86_64 AMD |
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Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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# lsmod |
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Module Size Used by |
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radeon 379392 0 |
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drm 184576 1 radeon |
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oss_usb 123220 0 |
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oss_audigyls 21792 0 |
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osscore 566436 2 oss_usb,oss_audigyls |
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nfs 172856 1 |
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nfsd 113384 9 |
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lockd 82000 2 nfs,nfsd |
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exportfs 5424 1 nfsd |
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sunrpc 218184 15 nfs,nfsd,lockd |
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sr_mod 16644 0 |
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# ls -l /dev/dri/card0 |
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crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 226, 0 jun 17 13:57 /dev/dri/card0 |
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So I haven't dri and I can't use xvideo. There are many more |
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annoying things about this driver. But this is the most |
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annoying one. |
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fglrx is worse with each release, and now once again I have to use |
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whatever version of xorg and the kernel they want. I am fed up with |
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this and that's why I'd like to migrate to either radeon or radeonhd. |
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But so far it's being a frustrating experience. Sometimes I think |
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that the only future for ati users is going to be the framebuffer :p |
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Thanks for reading and for any tip you can share :) |
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Jesús Guerrero |