Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:05:54
Message-Id: 201011230231.25775.robin.atwood@attglobal.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon KMS driver - what benefits? by Mick
1 On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Mick wrote:
2 > On 22 November 2010 17:02, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net> wrote:
3 > > I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old
4 > > laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to
5 > > work all right and I get the right "render string" from glxinfo.
6 > > However, I thought it might enable compositing to work on the KDE4
7 > > desktop but there is no change. What's more, glxgears used to give about
8 > > 2200 FPS but now it's 50! So have I been wasting my time?
9 >
10 > Which xorg-server version are you using?
11
12 x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2.901 - everything is current.
13
14 -Robin
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17 Robin Atwood.
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19 "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
20 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
21 from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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