On Tuesday 16 June 2009 06:10:56 Thomas Bächler wrote: > David C. Rankin schrieb: > > Your alternative is to use the radeonhd driver. I'm not 100% sure, but I > > believe your card is supported. The radeonhd driver is really making > > progress and is a very good open-Source driver. I use it with laptop > > running Arch. Heat is a bit of a problem on my laptop, but for a desktop > > you won't notice any difference aside from a degree or two on case > > temperature rise. In the tiny space inside a laptop -- the difference is > > about 20 degrees F. > > You could also use the radeon driver from the xf86-video-ati package, it > should support everything radeonhd supports (maybe with some delay, but > then radeonhd has longer release cycles, so the xorg one might still be > faster). > Another alternative is to use the radeonhd git repository to pull the current development version for the radeonhd driver and drm. The build is simple and the development version provides a number of fixes for issues in the last release of the radeonhd driver and improvements in chip power control. If you want to use the radeonhd driver, I would use the driver from the git repository. See: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd%3AINSTALL For Arch, all you need to do is install the drm modules(drm.ko/radeon.ko) and then build and install the radeonhd driver. There is also a radeonhd mailing list where you can help out. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
