On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All of you reported problems with the ati driver on Xpress chips. Alex > Deucher called for testing of the latest ati git on > http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=25
With the very latest unstable kernel (linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 package, version 2.6.24-5): * the git driver by default (no xorg.conf at all) declines to enable DRI. It also uses XAA by default, and says that I have to use EXA if I want Render acceleration. However, it works just fine. I'm using it right now, and will report any problems that arise. * I tried forcing DRI on with an xorg.conf which reads in its entirety Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]" Driver "ati" BusID "PCI:1:5:0" Option "DRI" "on" # Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" EndSection When I restarted gdm after this, it went straight to my desktop instead of drawing the login screen; it's not supposed to do that. The desktop was drawn correctly, except for a strip at the very top of the screen which was garbled. The mouse pointer appeared and moved around the screen in response to the touchpad. However, the rest of the display was frozen, including things like the gnome-system-monitor graphs that update without user intervention, and Ctrl-Alt-F1 did not give me back a text console. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace *did* kill the X server, or at least, the mouse pointer stopped moving. But then the keyboard was unresponsive; neither blind-typing "reboot" at the text console with root logged in nor Alt-SysRQ-B did anything. I was able to shut down in an orderly fashion by pressing the power button (i.e. I didn't have to hold it down to force poweroff). * I also tried forcing EXA on, by uncommenting the AccelMethod line in the above and commenting out the DRI line. This works correctly but is visibly *much* slower than XAA - repaints are delayed when I scroll windows, text boxes cannot keep up with my typing, and anything that changes the screen makes the CPU spike. (I was under the impression EXA was a failed, abandoned experiment?) * I did not try enabling both EXA and DRI. zw _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati