Re: Some problems with a radeon 8500
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 15:32 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>
> If I kill the X server (by stopping gdm (/etc/init.d/gdm stop)) the
> fonts on the console (with radeonfb) become completely unreadable, if I
> restart X it's readable again.
This only happens when you stop X from the console, right? It's a known
long standing issue; it hasn't bothered anybody enough to track it down
though...
> A second problem, the 3D seems to skip a lot of frames (the dri is
> enabled). For example if I run a 3D screensaver, the screensaver
> blinks.
That's usually an application bug, it probably doesn't use double
buffering. In particular, the KDE screensavers were known for this for a
long time, not sure they're fixed even now.
> A last one, radeonfb seems to find 2 monitors
>
> radeonfb: Monitor 1 type CRT found
> radeonfb: EDID probed
> radeonfb: Monitor 2 type CRT found
> radeonfb: EDID probed
>
> I have two heads on the card but only one monitor connected.
Is this really a problem? :) The worst that should happen is that the
second connector uses a little more power.
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