This one time, at band camp, Luca Ingianni said: > Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2006 21:56 schrieb Ernest jw ter Kuile: > > Hi all, > > > > Since upgrading from xorg 6.8.x to 6.9 I don't have any hw acceleration > > anymore (actually, if I had any). > > > > Moving anything around the screen or scrolling is horribly slow right > > now, and I can't get back to 6.8 (I deleted the corresponding .deb files > > I had) > > The radeon driver didn't really take the transition to 6.9 well, it seems. > This made quite a few people (including me) unhappy. > In my case, dualhead has ceased to work. According to the log, the second > monitor is detected, and immediately afterwards radeon states there is no > second monitor and turns the port off. > > Same as you, I see those DRI messages, but I can't tell if they were there > in 6.8.2 as well. > > So, I'm afraid I can't help you with your problem, but I suppose the radeon > driver will be worked on already. I've temporarily switched to fglrx, but > I'm not happy with it at all. We just have to wait, I guess. There is an open source project for the r300 driver (r300.sourceforge.net) and it looks like it has already been merged with xorg CVS. I understand 7.1 is due out in April or so, so hopefully all of our Radeon problems will go away then. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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