On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 17:54, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Hi all! > > I've managed to get my ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 to work great under X > finally - after a good deal of tweaking, of course. the 2.4.22 radeonfb > driver likes my card, the ati driver from X 4.3.0 works - I installed of > course the radeon DRM driver (radeon-20030901-linux.i386.tar -- DRI > project CVS snap). > > I'm using Daniel Stone's XF 4.3.0 packages -- these are of course built > on woody and I'm running Sarge, but I can't imagine this causing any > problems. I will rebuild locally to be sure but I honestly doubt this > will solve anything. >
If you are talking about the xfree 4.3 packages, they are also in experimental. > Now on to the issue: When I startx, any time I have Option "UseFBDev" > "true" in my device section, I get this wierd error message about not > being able to probe the VGA bios in PCI space. odd. And the server dies. > > If I turn off the use of the framebuffer, my server starts great, and > it's fully 2d accelerated. fairly easy to tell by running aviplay - it > renders fast and uses almost no CPU time. However, glxinfo reports > "direct rendering: No" and any 3d applications run slow as molasses. > > I don't know a whole lot about X, but is turning off the FBDev nuking my > 3d accel, or something else? And if that's it, how do I fix this probing > problem? XF86Config-4, startx output, and the error logfile are attached > below. > > Also I have this wierd thing happening - when i exit X my framebuffer > resolution doesn't change -- and I get a whole bunch of tiled (640x480?) > consoles on a 1600x1200 display. Bit difficult to see :P. How do i > change a fbdev's resolution? > Try using fbset. > Thanks in advance! > -Aaron Van Couwenberghe > > PS note of course the only line different in my alternate XF86Config is > to replace "false" with "true" in the "UseFBDev" line of my device > section. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
