On Monday 05 January 2009 22:28:12 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2009 21:56:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Monday 05 January 2009 19:48:39 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > >>> I'm using the free ATi driver and cannot use Desktop Effects without > > >>> random freezes. How is this EXA enabled? > > >> > > >> Section "Device" > > >> Option "UseAtomBIOS" "true" > > >> Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > > >> # ... > > >> EndSection > > >> > > >> This works with both the radeon as well as the radeonhd driver but > > >> only with cards up to an X1950. HD2xxx and above aren't supported > > >> yet. > > > > > > So the X600 should be OK. Does that "UseAtomBIOS" apply to all these > > > older cards? > > > > Not sure. You can grep -i atom your Xorg.0.log and check if it applies > > for you. > > I don't see it in there, so I'll comment that out. I've re-started X and > everything looks fine. In the morning I'll test it with Desktop Effects. > I'll report back. > I've been running now for more than 8 hours, using "Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" " and I haven't had a single freeze. I'm keeping fingers crossed, but so far it's looking good :-) Thanks for the tip. Now I wonder where, on userbase, I should put that? Under 'troubleshooting' I guess. Anne
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