Re: radeonhd on R5xx based card + dri very slow
On Thursday 19 February 2009 09:32:33 Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:43:17 +0100
> "Thomas Preud'homme" <thomas.preudhomme@celest.fr> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Yes, all of these is installed. I'm sorry in fact because I forgot about
> > this thread: I actually found what was the problem. ATI cards need an
> > additional option in xorg.conf in the section "Device":
> >
> > Option "DRI"
> >
> > For those who would seek for the same information, I attach my xorg.conf
> > to this email. As latest xorg now uses evdev instead of kbd, I attach my
> > working evdev config un hal. I don't know if it's a clean configuration
> > but it's a working one. By the way, I think there is a bug on
> > xserver-xorg because a reconfigure modify the xorg.conf for the keyboard
> > although this does nothing. Only modifications in
> > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi have made xorg
> > recognize my keyboard layout and options.
> >
> > > Also is your graphics card compatible with the 'radeon' driver? I've
> > > had more success with that.
> >
> > Yep it is. It's an X1600 Mobility chipset. It now perfectly works with
> > transparency on KDE 4 :)
>
> That's great news! Thanks for posting back!
It is indeed. I will definitively buy ati chipset based card for my next
computer. Having a free (as in free speach) driver is nice. And it is far more
stable than fglrx driver.
Regards,
Thomas Preud'homme
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