Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Bill Wohler wrote:
> In case there are still folks out there that like me have xserver-xorg
> 6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze up if you had
> an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is well.
>
> I share the sentiments that the upgrade was a non-event for such a
> major upgrade (at least now that the problems exposed with the early
> reports have been fixed). I went into aptitude, unheld xorg-xserver,
> hit U, and then g. Although I was expecting to have to apt-get install
> -f a few times, I didn't have to run it once!
>
> I have:
>
>   IBM ThinkPad t40p
>   ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
>   Debian etch
>
> I haven't seen any strange behavior in a few days now. I believe I
> read that the ATI fixes were applied to Xorg 7.1, but it appears that
> the these fixes were also applied to xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.5.8.0-1
> which is available to Debian users of Xorg 7.0.
>
> My thanks and appreciation go out to the X Strike Force.
>
>
> A couple of notes:
>
> 1. glxgears missing
>
> The fix was to install mesa-utils.

  do you have 3D hw acceleration working? I thought it's not working or 
VERY experimental in free ati driver

> 2. The courier fonts were ugly.
>
> The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf (I'm assuming with a proper font
> path). I did not have to resort to the workaround presented in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367593

  some of my fonts look prety ugly too, how did you figure out what the 
proper font path is? Whatever was there after dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg?

  TIA,

	erik