Hi everybody, I just set up the latest Debian Sid using KDE 4.3 and the latest Xorg drivers for my ATI Expert cards: Exact type is: ATI Expert 2000 Pro ultra, 32 MB RAM.
The latest xorg drivers do not need an xorg.conf file any longer. The automatic configuration performed by the DDC I do highly appreciate so far. However there is one enormous disadvantage of that automatic configuration concept: Starting KDM using the above mentioned card you end up in a dark black screen, being forced to reboot the box and thus repairing your ext3 filesystem. The reason for that is that the automatic DDC configuration system cannot handle automatically which specific card subdriver of the ATI group (r128, Mach64 or other ones) the specific card needs. The card's firmware is neither sensitive nor differenciated enough to handle the subdriver choice automatically. My proposal to resolve that issue would be to merge the three different ATI xorg drivers into one unique one, thus reverting some changeset made in March 2008. The intermediate compromise for now is to uninstall xserver-xorg-video-ati at the console prompt, so that at the next boot the r128 subdriver automatically knows that it's his turn now to drive the card. It should be obvious with utmost high priority that the current concept cannot stay in the state that it is in right now. So please fix that bug! As the firmware won't change due to the age of those cards the only solution that at least I do see is to remerge all three subdrivers into one. Regards Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
