Hello, I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas about this. After some tinkering around I've finally managed to get somewhat working a setup with the xf86-video-ati (radeon) driver.
I am using a vanilla 2.6.30 kernel, xorg-server 1.6 and x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.2. But I've tried many more versions that range from stable to live builds of everything. The results have been *exactly* the same, no matter which versions do I consider. The driver only works when I add this to my xorg.conf: Option "DRI" "off" According to the man page, dri should work with my card (and that's why I have to explicitly disable it, indeed). I don't want fancy cubes or stuff like that. My main concern about having dri off is that xvideo doesn't work without it. 2d performance also sucks which is definitely a bad thing. When I have DRI on my screen is corrupted to the point that's unusable, you can see it here: http://jesgue.homelinux.org/other-files/foo.jpg This is what you should see instead: http://jesgue.homelinux.org/other-files/bar.jpg This is the log: no errors, no nothing. It says it works nicely, but it obviously doesn't. http://pastebin.ca/1463295 And my xorg.conf: http://pastebin.ca/1463374 Additional stuff: ===================== # uname -a Linux jesgue 2.6.30 #7 PREEMPT Fri Jun 12 01:26:58 CEST 2009 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux # lsmod Module Size Used by radeon 379392 0 drm 184576 1 radeon oss_usb 123220 0 oss_audigyls 21792 0 osscore 566436 2 oss_usb,oss_audigyls nfs 172856 1 nfsd 113384 9 lockd 82000 2 nfs,nfsd exportfs 5424 1 nfsd sunrpc 218184 15 nfs,nfsd,lockd sr_mod 16644 0 # ls -l /dev/dri/card0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 226, 0 jun 17 13:57 /dev/dri/card0 ===================== So I haven't dri and I can't use xvideo. There are many more annoying things about this driver. But this is the most annoying one. fglrx is worse with each release, and now once again I have to use whatever version of xorg and the kernel they want. I am fed up with this and that's why I'd like to migrate to either radeon or radeonhd. But so far it's being a frustrating experience. Sometimes I think that the only future for ati users is going to be the framebuffer :p Thanks for reading and for any tip you can share :) -- Jesús Guerrero
