Am Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:36:59 +0100 schrieb Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 26 Aug 2015 04:47:24 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Then I generated an xorg.conf in the old way using 'Xorg -configure'. > > > That file didn't work right either. > > > > > > Then I finally realized that the generated xorg.conf had, in the > > > Section "Device" section, this line: > > > > > > Driver "radeon" > > This is the correct driver. > > > > > But that's not what we want. To use the open-source ati driver I > > > changed that line to read: > > > > > > Driver "ati" > > This is what I recall it used to be, but now it is "radeon". From ati(4): "ati is an Xorg wrapper driver for ATI video cards. It autodetects whether your hardware has a Radeon, Rage 128, or Mach64 or earlier class of chipset, and loads the radeon(4), r128(4), or mach64 driver as appropriate." So I would say that it's not so much incorrect, as it is unnecessary. Either way, I let X decide which driver to load, and it always loads ati first (I only have two xorg.conf.d files for keyboard and mouse devices). Regarding the firmware settings, I'll just add for completeness: I have *never* had anything set in my kernel config regarding firmware, and my kernels have always loaded the firmware all by themselves (both with and without an initramfs): % zgrep FIRMWARE /proc/config.gz CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="" # CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE is not set # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID is not set CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y # CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE is not set # CONFIG_TEST_FIRMWARE is not set % dmesg |grep -i micro [ 3.685241] [drm] Loading RV730 Microcode HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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