Let me proceed with my X Window System related stuff.
I have some problems with radeon ATI card on my semi-modern amd64 laptop. Upgrading in testing (now i'm on sid) to Xorg i've noticed, that my video-chip fan is going to be crazy, like radeon became a boilerplate. (Some radeon developer like boilerplates to be under GPL, see linux/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c ;) Back-porting by hands to xfree86, using little difference i used Xorg's "/etc" and some libs, but xfree86's drivers. Yes drivers, because i've found, that problem is in linux-raden_drm - xorg's radeon driver team (obviously). After some upgrade, i've got broken X with no chance to repair it, i had real soup of sym-links and files in X directories of xfree86 and xorg. But this told me way, I can solve problem with Xorg's radeon. Switching to some other mode (C-Alt-Plus, Minus) is stopping my chip to boil (funny, but this was possible because Xorg upgrade caused keyboard to switch modes on any key pressing ;). So, this is some kind of bug. I tried to find some radeon_drm lists, but fail. Found only typo on <http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ATIProprietaryDriver>: [ design vrom ATI and from third party board vendors ] and broken links on <http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRM>. <r300.sf.net> is telling, that new X driver may break hardware, i agree with this. That's why i'm asking you, people, to report and contact linux-radeon_drm or somebody else, to make it possible to solve. Searching and comparing within X logs and radeon drivers in linux (framebuffer and drm) i found something. 1. /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.16/drivers/video/aty/radeon_pm.c Has some power management functions with comments about difference with X driver. Maybe i'll try this one later. 2. New line typo in Xorg's radeon driver: ---- (**) RADEON(0): RADEONSwitchMode() !n(**) RADEON(0): RADEONModeInit() 1400x1050 108.00 1400 34208 34320 1688 1050 1052 1055 1063 (24,32) ---- 3. Debian's latest (in sid) kernel has 1.22 version of radeon_drm, while Xorg wants even later (1.23). My Xorg log or config maybe accessed by web upon request. BTW, i have radeon's xorg.conf 'Option "DynamicClocks" "true"', and this must prevent overheating on mobility radeons on laptops (i guess). Greetings ! -- olecom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
