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thepi
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 Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Like that:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Driver "ati"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "off"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "DynamicClocks" "true"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc."
BoardName "Radeon R250 Lf (Radeon Mobility 9000 M9)"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0" # vendor=1002, device=4c66
Screen 0
EndSection
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| matttions wrote: | In which section of the xorg.conf file? plz..
I can't find the way  |
| Code: | Section "Device"
BoardName "RV250 Lf"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "radeon"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "DynamicCLocks" "true"
Identifier "Card0"
VendorName "ATI"
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that was an easy one
Btw what happened to the xorg.conf/XFree86Config someone wanted to post? I think his screen broke (sorry...) - is anyone else going to do that? Should we post it to an extra page in the wiki? |
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matttions
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| tuxlover wrote: |
| Code: | Section "Device"
BoardName "RV250 Lf"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "radeon"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "DynamicCLocks" "true"
Identifier "Card0"
VendorName "ATI"
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Ok .. It works now.. and I find my mistake ...
The problem is that is not ..
| Code: | | Option "DynamicCLocks" "true" |
but
| Code: | | Option "DynamicClocks" "true" |
note the case of the "L" --> "l" .
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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@ thepi: What are these two options for? | Code: | Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "backingstore" "true" |
I see some people are using this power saving with the ati driver, while others with the radeon driver. I still can't find any good information or documentation on the differences between the 3 drivers (ati, radeon and fglrx). It's a shame there's no faq or sticky for this on the Gentoo site somewhere... Ofcourse I'm mostly interested in the advantages/disadvantages of the drivers: speed, robustness/stability, size, compatibility,... Posts like these here also show that a full list of X options would be nice. So if anyone has any good links, please go ahead and post them. Anyhow, thx for another half hour of battery life (hopefully). |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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@ thepi: You beat me 3 hours on my last post. Maybe I should hit reload more often.
| pjv wrote: | | I still can't find any good information or documentation on the differences between the 3 drivers (ati, radeon and fglrx). It's a shame there's no faq or sticky for this on the Gentoo site somewhere... |
This has bothered me many times in the past as well... I'd be very interested in more info about this.
My main reason not to use the ati driver is that it's closed source. The radeon driver has been working fine for me so far. Granted, I don't play games... |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| On second thought this videocard power saving mode may not be such a good idea: It creates a hard crash (and a garbled screen) when I try to switch to a tty with Ctrl+Alt+F1. Not even the magic SysRq could reboot. Did we once consider this but then leave it off for some/this reason?!? |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| pjv wrote: | | It creates a hard crash (and a garbled screen) when I try to switch to a tty with Ctrl+Alt+F1 |
No problems here with the radeon driver... (I don't use framebuffer) |
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matttions
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:40 am Post subject: |
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I have the framebuffer enabled ... and the radeon drivers
no problem here to switcht between the TTY .
I use qingy as my login manager ....
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:11 am Post subject: |
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pjv, you're using the ati-binary driver, right? Propably it's a problem with that one. No problems here (just tried it out), using radeon DRM for X, VesaFB for console. No Login Manager btw, if that even matters.
AFAIK, there's only two drivers: ati's binary & radeon drm. fglrx is the X module of the ati-binary driver. My original X config was created w/ ati's tool before I switched from XFree & ati to X.org & radeon, so the card's settings are mostly their defaults. Don't know if they even have any effect on the DRM driver - aside from the DynamicClocks setting, of course. So a list of valid settings would be really cool 
Again, I'd suggest to use the radeon DRM driver. The ati binary may be a tad faster, but I would never again trade this for the stability that I've gained since I made the switch to the OpenSource variant. Granted, to play newer games that use S3TC (Texture Compression) it takes a bit more effort, as one has to compile the drm module by hand using a patch. But what kind of Linuxers would we be if we were afraid of that 
I even tried to put this into an ebuild, but it's kinda tricky 
UPDATE: I just screened through the mailing list, the additional patch is now integrated in the cvs version of the driver. You just need to install the additional dxtn library now, and set the USE_EXTERNAL_DXTN_LIB env variable. I wonder when this is going to be in the stable release, would spare the hassle to do a manual cvs install.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm using the ati driver without any problems apart from this one. Oh well... I can probably live without it. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: sth |
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| EASYdoor wrote: |
| Code: | | Option "DynamicCLocks" "true" |
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When I use this option, my Xorg freezes when shutting down/rebooting.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? |
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thepi
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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Which driver? ati-binary or x11-drm? Here it's the latter, no problems whatsoever.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:21 am Post subject: |
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Anybody has the tv-out working?
or the vga-out working well [I have always the screen cutted ... it's really annoying ..]
@floppes With the x11-drm [the driver open, provided by the kernel] I haven't any type of problem except above [maybe a misconfigured?]
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| I am using the ati-binary drivers. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:17 am Post subject: |
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Okay everybody, I recommend disabling the DynamicClock setting if you're using the ati-binary drivers. This option seems to cause lots of trouble atm, so only use it together with the radeon-drm module, or if you're feeling lucky and don't mind the crashes.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Hooray! I got my long-awaited DVD-RW drive today, a Toshiba SD-R6472.
Installation was quite easy, you just have to remove the old drive from the media bay and replace it with the new one. It was detected correctly on first boot, and I just successfully burned my first DVD on Linux K3b even detects the correct CD burning speed (24x) now, which it failed to do with my old drive since some time.
Gotta go, lots of files to archive 
EDIT: so far so good, second burn fails due to a kernel bug
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| tuxlover wrote: | | Btw what happened to the xorg.conf/XFree86Config someone wanted to post? I think his screen broke (sorry...) - is anyone else going to do that? Should we post it to an extra page in the wiki? |
Yeah - could someone post their latest working xorg.conf here?
I just installed 2005.0 on my 800, kde's finished compiling and I'm about to setup X - it would be great if I could just copy and paste instead of going through the usual configuration trial-and-error frustration that always seems to happen when I first setup X...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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I use the x11-Drm [open radeon driver provided by the kernel]
my xorg.conf
enjoy.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Mine, mostly generated by is pasted below.
I only had to change a couple things which I'll explain in a moment. I marked my additions to the autogenerated config with
The problem I ran into was a message to the effect of "xorg is unable to locate your mouse" when I ran . Apparently this is due the fact that 2005.0 uses udev, and X looks for /dev/mouse. I was able to fix this easily by just taking the | Code: | | /root/xorg.conf.new |
file that was generated, and threw it into , then I edited it to use . This worked, but the mouse driver wasn't facilitating the synaptics features, so I was able to fix that by using and . That was pretty much it, the rest of the auto-generated config works flawlessly. There are obviously tons of options for the ati driver ( listed and commented out in the config ) to tune and tinker with, but the important thing at first is get X up and running as quickly as possible.
Another thing you'll notice, is - mysteriously enough - I did not have to specify any actual synaptics options yet I still have all the synaptics bells-and-whistles ( 1/2/3 finger taps for 1st/2nd/3rd mouse buttons, even scrolling without specifically setting the ZAxis or whatever that option was ) and also the resolution is somehow working perfectly even w/o specifying in the Display sections. The synaptics thing is probably working so well just cuz I used the synaptics driver instead of the Imps/ps2 or whatever, but I can't explain why the resolution is running at the 1400x1050 without configuring it.
Here's the config, as generated by , but with my minor edits to get the mouse working:
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ection "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
##HERE##
Load "synaptics"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
#Driver "mouse"
##HERE##
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 310 230 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "HTC"
ModelName "1c12"
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 "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i>
#Option "AGPMode" # <i>
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # <i>
#Option "GARTSize" # <i>
#Option "RingSize" # <i>
#Option "BufferSize" # <i>
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRIReinit" # [<bool>]
#Option "PanelOff" # [<bool>]
#Option "DDCMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "MonitorLayout" # [<str>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "MergedFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "CRT2HSync" # [<str>]
#Option "CRT2VRefresh" # [<str>]
#Option "CRT2Position" # [<str>]
#Option "MetaModes" # [<str>]
#Option "MergedDPI" # [<str>]
#Option "NoMergedXinerama" # [<bool>]
#Option "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "DynamicClocks" # [<bool>]
#Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>]
#Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "BIOSHotkeys" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
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
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thepi
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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scary 
I will post my xorg.conf here when my computer's more responsive again (growisofs seems mem-hungry )
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| thepi wrote: |
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I dunno what the Viewport setting is... why's it scary?
Also, why is it that I didn't need to define any Modes options in the Display sections? |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Hm my quote was a little misleading. What's scary is the thing about your Display mode, or the complete lack thereof. Didn't think that it would work that way.
At first I actually thought that X -configure had set you up with a Resolution of "0 x 0 pixels". That'd been really scary. Stupid me 
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| thepi wrote: | Hm my quote was a little misleading. What's scary is the thing about your Display mode, or the complete lack thereof. Didn't think that it would work that way.
At first I actually thought that X -configure had set you up with a Resolution of "0 x 0 pixels". That'd been really scary. Stupid me
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Yeah, man -- heh; I wouldn't have believed it myself if it wasn't actualy working that way on my box and seeing it and verifying ( and re-verifying! ) with my own eyes!
It's a trip... anyone know the answer to this riddle? |
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So... anyone got a 2.6.11 .config for my 800 that I can use as a base to build my kernel with?
Looking for something that facilitates all/most of the bells-and-whistles for the TravelMate.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:29 am Post subject: screenblanking |
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Anyone manage to get screen blanking to work ( where the backlight actualy turns off ) w/ the latest kernel and xorg "ati" driver?
How do I do it?
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