On Monday 07 December 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: >On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:14:31PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 07 December 2009, tsuraan wrote: >> >These drivers sound seriously >> >unloved. >> >> Yes, for the rv610 based cards in particular. The guys have seemingly >> danced all the way around it like its a pile of smelly poo. Heck, Alex >> promised me good drivers before Christmas. 2008 that is. ;) This >> (radeonhd-1.25) is usable, till the touchies start, then you may as well >> reboot cuz that is the only thing that fixes it for a while. > >And does the problem occur with the radeon (not radeonhd) driver? > I have not checked recently Daniel. The last time I did check, it was ok, but radeon was refreshing the screen really slowly, making it difficult to scroll in FF and similar apps. I believe the ati module makes that choice, but let me check the log, brb.
Hmmm, brb was a rather optimistic statement. Switching /etc/X11/xorg.conf to define the radeon driver instead of the radeonhd results in an x server crash and no video from either output on the card, and is not recoverable with a ctl-alt-bsp. ctl-alt-del gets me a boatload of dirty inodes cleaned up messages on the reboot too. And once I had to use the hdwe reset to reboot it, I tried it several times with the same no signal to the monitor results, I'd guess at less than 500 milliseconds after I hit the return on a startx. So I am back on the radeonhd driver and things are hopefully back to as normal as they usually are. Is this helpful? Thanks for the prod. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Any program which runs right is obsolete. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
