I'll check on the drivers but I was having the same problems with the proprietary and which ever ones come stock with fedora as well as the ones from rpmfusion(which I assume are an older proprietary version). Unfortunately it is overwriting the xorg.conf. It gets created when I run the utility. Everything looks fine, copied it to my /root, rebooted, everything gets reverted to how it was before and the time stamp on the xorg.conf has changed. Copy back the older one and restart X and everything is fine again. (shrug)
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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