On 09/25/2011 08:43 AM, Topher Cullen wrote: > I have a hd6970. I was using the stock nouveau drivers and X 1.10. I tried > the drivers directly from ATI's site. They were dog slow, even more glitchy, > and took forever to get working. Hey, at least audio over dvi started > working. Catalyst is truly an abomination. Then I used the the ati drivers > from the fedora repo, and, strangely, they worked a little better, but still > slower than nouveau. Now, in addition to all of the other wacky things, the > top bar in gnome3 is a different color gradient every time i log in. I would > say there's something up with the card except for it's brand new and > everything works flawlessly in windows. another issue came up where none of > the changes to xorg.conf are persistent. Fedora or ati, not sure which one, > decides to overwrite everything on reboot. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love > to give them try just for kicks. I think I'm just going to give up and get a > gtx560. Never had any issues with nvidia in the past and have had nothing > but problems with both sets of radeon cards I use. could It have something > to do with multiple monitor setups?
Odd about ATI's catylist drivers. I've found them buggy and glitchy, but they always were pretty darn fast for me. In the back of my mind I think I have seen weird color problems before with them, but that was a few years ago. When you say drivers from the fedora repo what are you talking about? What package name? Are these the open source radeon drivers? Nouveau is the nvidia driver, so you certainly aren't using it. Maybe you were using the VESA drivers, which definitely would be very very slow. Fedora normally doesn't use xorg.conf at all, but if you do create one such as you would have to with the catylist drivers, it certainly should not be erased. I've never had it erase my xorg.conf file (nvidia driver). It's definitely possible that the Xorg driver is having fits with your multiple monitor setup. The only way to know is to try it with only one monitor. Anyway, it's unclear from your post which driver you are currently using that is having the color problems. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
