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On Sunday, August 23, 2015 2:25:47 PM walt wrote: |
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> On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200 |
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> bitlord <bitlord0xff@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: |
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> > > I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentioned it, so I just |
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> > > emerged |
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> > > it and (I think) made all the changes needed to reconfigure Xorg to |
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> > > use |
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> > > it instead of fglrx. |
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> > > |
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> > > Maybe I'm just too tired right now to think straight, but the error |
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> > > messages I see in Xorg.log tell me that my video chip is not |
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> > > supported. |
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> > For radeon (free driver) you need to configure more than Xorg, check |
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> > wiki article about radeon driver [1], It needs in kernel support, also |
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> > most cards especially "newer" (>=r600) need proprietary firmware. |
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> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon |
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> An excellent wiki page, thanks. It tells me that my video chip should |
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> be supported so I'll go back and follow all the steps this time. I'd |
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> like to avoid the proprietary ati driver if I can. |
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I had nothing but trouble with the free driver with a kabini APU. Hibernate |
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would give a black screen on resume. The "Dim screen after an inactive period" |
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(whatever it's called) would dim it further until the backlight turns off |
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everytime the period elapses. And a lot of programs like the adobe flash plugin |
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and other players, and games would show video that I may have watched even |
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days before but it's still on video memory when started. |
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The only problem I've had with the proprietary driver (which may be realted to |
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your problem) is that if you use a premptive kernel it causes a LOT of errors |
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to be written to the syslog which makes the desktop very unresponsive. That's |
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because it calls functions that should not be called with preemption enabled. |
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If that's your problem you'll see errors on the syslog and I posted a patch |
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that disables preemption before calling those functions. It's on a VLC bug |
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(cause at first I tought it was a VLC related) and I recently noticed that I |
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still get the errors if I switch between X sessions with CTRL-ALT-Fx so it's |
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incomplete but it makes things much better. I will update it and post it on |
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the right bug when I get around it. |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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