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From: "Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@×××××.es>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] radeon driver, hd2600 card, no dri
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:20:50
Message-Id: 9ba5b78b9ed9e7e8f9763d6dcb471c1f.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org
1 Hello,
2
3 I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas about this. After some
4 tinkering around I've finally managed to get somewhat working
5 a setup with the xf86-video-ati (radeon) driver.
6
7 I am using a vanilla 2.6.30 kernel, xorg-server 1.6 and
8 x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.2. But I've tried many more
9 versions that range from stable to live builds of everything.
10 The results have been *exactly* the same, no matter which versions
11 do I consider.
12
13 The driver only works when I add this to my xorg.conf:
14
15 Option "DRI" "off"
16
17 According to the man page, dri should work with my card (and that's
18 why I have to explicitly disable it, indeed). I don't want fancy
19 cubes or stuff like that. My main concern about having dri off is
20 that xvideo doesn't work without it. 2d performance also sucks
21 which is definitely a bad thing.
22
23 When I have DRI on my screen is corrupted to the point that's
24 unusable, you can see it here:
25
26 http://jesgue.homelinux.org/other-files/foo.jpg
27
28 This is what you should see instead:
29
30 http://jesgue.homelinux.org/other-files/bar.jpg
31
32 This is the log: no errors, no nothing. It says it works nicely,
33 but it obviously doesn't.
34
35 http://pastebin.ca/1463295
36
37 And my xorg.conf:
38
39 http://pastebin.ca/1463374
40
41 Additional stuff:
42
43 =====================
44 # uname -a
45 Linux jesgue 2.6.30 #7 PREEMPT Fri Jun 12 01:26:58 CEST 2009 x86_64 AMD
46 Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
47 # lsmod
48 Module Size Used by
49 radeon 379392 0
50 drm 184576 1 radeon
51 oss_usb 123220 0
52 oss_audigyls 21792 0
53 osscore 566436 2 oss_usb,oss_audigyls
54 nfs 172856 1
55 nfsd 113384 9
56 lockd 82000 2 nfs,nfsd
57 exportfs 5424 1 nfsd
58 sunrpc 218184 15 nfs,nfsd,lockd
59 sr_mod 16644 0
60 # ls -l /dev/dri/card0
61 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 226, 0 jun 17 13:57 /dev/dri/card0
62 =====================
63
64 So I haven't dri and I can't use xvideo. There are many more
65 annoying things about this driver. But this is the most
66 annoying one.
67
68 fglrx is worse with each release, and now once again I have to use
69 whatever version of xorg and the kernel they want. I am fed up with
70 this and that's why I'd like to migrate to either radeon or radeonhd.
71 But so far it's being a frustrating experience. Sometimes I think
72 that the only future for ati users is going to be the framebuffer :p
73
74 Thanks for reading and for any tip you can share :)
75 --
76 Jesús Guerrero