On 08/16/2011 09:25 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> But AO about an hour ago, I am no longer using the vesa driver. It turns
> out the radeon driver has been markedly improved since my last test under
> 8.04.
>
> Using the Driver "ati" in the xorg.conf, it loops through the modline list
> about 25 times getting started and finally settles on a 1366x768 screen
> that has square pixels! I can full screen the emc gui and circles are
> still circles!
>
> Motion wise it is not more than a few milliseconds behind the machine,
> apparently dead accurate and an even bigger wonder is that in 2 startups of
> emc, I have not seen an "un-expected realtime delay"! That was a 100%
> startup fuss running vesa.
>
> I an amazed, dumb-founded, slack jawed, and happier than a pig in a well
> used sty.
>
> Beat on me, as a stubborn old fart, I have a good session out behind the
> woodshed coming.
>
> Now if it didn't just loop for about 30 seconds, generating a megabyte plus
> log file at startx time, it would probably boot the x server 30 seconds
> faster. But I doubt that is anything _we_ can fix.
>
> Thanks for prodding me to at least re-try it. I am pleased as can be that
> someone has been giving that code some sorely needed TLC. ;-)
>
> Cheers, gene
>
Gene,
Sometimes you can make a stubborn old fart drink that water after
he's led to the stream... ;-) Glad to hear you got your video card
working oh so much better!
Mark
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