On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Nicholas Syrotiuk
<syrotiuk@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions, Kelly.
First I stuck with the fglrx driver and added the two options to the
"Device" section of xorg.conf. Unfortunately this didn't seem to make any
difference to the video playback; i.e., it's still stuttering.
Then I tried both the RadeonHD and the Radeon drivers. The xserver starts
in each case (as expected) but direct rendering is disabled. Is there
anything I can do to enable direct rendering with either of these drivers?
Looking more carefully at the wiki, it looks like Radeon doesn't do
acceleration for your card, but RadeonHD should if it is > 1.2 (which is in
Testing). AFAIK, the DRI and RenderAccel options should make it work.
When you say direct rendering is disabled, did you determine that
with "glxinfo" or what?
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
Just found a post on Phoronix from a dev that said:
"if you have an HD2400 then the problem is simply that we don't
have video acceleration for your card yet, but we are working on it."
dated 08/27/20008
So the RadeonHD driver will not work even though the wiki says it
will, and cards above and below it are supported...
You could take your fglrx problem to the Phoronix forum. They
probably have the highest concentration of Linux graphics experts
anywhere outside of the Xorg dev mailing lists.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers