Bug#572405: crashes X when compiz is started
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:38:01PM -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> Compiz should work well on radeon. My advice is for you to get a kernel
> with KMS support enabled, a new enough libdrm with support for radeon
> DRM enabled, and mesa and radeon built against that new-enough
> libdrm-dev package. These are all available in Debian experimental and
> unstable thanks to recent efforts by the Debian X Strike Force,
> especially Brice Goglin. You should be much happier with this
> combination of packages than you are right now!
Everything except for a kernel with KMS Radeon enabled is indeed
available, after compiling that feature into the kernel it indeed works
very fine. The DRM1 version that gets used when KMS is not available
was pretty problematic on further tries, but with KMS and DRM2 it's
fast and so far stable.
Another vote against radeonhd then, I guess, at least for the HD4850 I
am using.
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