On Tuesday 16 June 2009 06:10:56 Thomas Bächler wrote:
David C. Rankin schrieb:
Your alternative is to use the radeonhd driver. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe your card is supported. The radeonhd driver is really making progress and is a very good open-Source driver. I use it with laptop running Arch. Heat is a bit of a problem on my laptop, but for a desktop you won't notice any difference aside from a degree or two on case temperature rise. In the tiny space inside a laptop -- the difference is about 20 degrees F.
You could also use the radeon driver from the xf86-video-ati package, it should support everything radeonhd supports (maybe with some delay, but then radeonhd has longer release cycles, so the xorg one might still be faster).
Another alternative is to use the radeonhd git repository to pull the current development version for the radeonhd driver and drm. The build is simple and the development version provides a number of fixes for issues in the last release of the radeonhd driver and improvements in chip power control. If you want to use the radeonhd driver, I would use the driver from the git repository. See: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd%3AINSTALL For Arch, all you need to do is install the drm modules(drm.ko/radeon.ko) and then build and install the radeonhd driver. There is also a radeonhd mailing list where you can help out. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com