On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 20:39 +1100, Robbie Smith wrote:
> > I myself am suited with Radeon opensource drivers for all my needs -
> > GoogleEarth and Blender, you should try it.
> I couldn't get the open-source drivers to work, all I got was a blank
> screen, and that was from fresh install. I had a look at the road map
> for the Xorg drivers and I got the impression that work on the driver
> that supports my cards is far from complete.
>
> The only reason I'm suspecting Catalyst is because those were the
> updates done prior to the panics, and I can't replicate it now.
I didn't follow the thread. Do you use a xorg.conf?
Perhaps you can use my xorg.conf as a template.
[spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri2"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "GLcore"
#Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Plug 'n' Play"
ModelName "Plug 'n' Play"
DisplaySize 305 230
HorizSync 29-98
VertRefresh 50-120
modeline "1152x864" 128.42 1152 1232 1360 1568 864 865 868 910
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "MergedFB" "off" #old debian/ubuntu
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
#Driver "nvidia"
#Driver "nv"
#Driver "nouveau"
#Driver "vesa"
#VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
#BoardName "G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS]"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864"
#Virtual 3840 1200
EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 1
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 4
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 8
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 15
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 16
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 24
# EndSubSection
EndSection
Regards,
Ralf
PS:
At the moment I AGAIN struggle with graphics myself. However, on Arch I
get the graphics working with the wanted frequencies and resolution, 3D
is working too (tested with GoogleEarth), unfortunately I run into audio
xruns hell, perhaps not related to the graphics, but it shares the IRQ
with the audio card. For Ubuntu I'm limited to a max of 1024x768@60Hz at
the moment, but until now I didn't notice audio issues. Once I switched
from the integrated ATI to a NVIDIA card and now I switched back to the
onboard ATI ;). Sometimes it's less time consuming to switch graphics. I
got my secondhand NVIDIA "for a song". Current Catalyst doesn't support
my graphics, an issue I never got for old NVIDIA cards. I made better
experiences with NVIDIA than with ATI, I anyway switch back to ATI at
the moment ;).
