On 12/23/2009 05:20 PM, Jan de Groot wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 03:37 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
Err, yep slow is a nice way to put it. The question is how do I get back to the usable 2D hardware setup? Should I set KMS back up? I'm up to date with all packages except the mesa/drm/libgl packages I just downgraded 1 version. Everything was great before the update today and the drm snafu. What's the best way to get back to the config I had 24 hours ago?
I took /var/log/pacman.log and backed out all updates except the kde & gnome printer control center modules (I can't see them being related), but I'm still not back to where I was before the updates. Am I missing something?
KMS is not recommended for ATI at this moment, so we'll ship it disabled by default. There's also no stable non-experimental 2D or 3D stack supporting KMS, so we'll have to do with user mode setting. At this moment, our driver in extra is a stable released version. This released version is rather old, and there's about 10-15 commits on the stable branch that should get applied to the package. This fixes several issues, but hasn't made it into a release.
Ah! Thank you again. Currently I have extra enabled and community-testing enabled so I do expect things to break. The xf86-video-ati 6.12.99.git20091221-1 package works fine for me except for the mesa/hardware issue. The resolution killer turned out to be libdrm-2.4.17-2. For some reason the libdrm package just ignored the 1440x900 display data. I think all would work find if I could get the resolution set. I'll tinker some more. If anyone has any idea on how to set the resolution at 1440x900 with the new libdrm, I would welcome any thoughts. I have tried: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor[0]" VendorName "TOSHIBA" ModelName "TOSHIBA 17IN TRUEBRIGHT" UseModes "Modes[0]" DisplaySize 367 230 HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0 Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool" Option "DPMS" Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900" EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Screen" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection Device "Device[0]" Identifier "Screen[0]" Monitor "Monitor[0]" EndSection Section "Device" BoardName "RS690M" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "ATI" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen 0 "Screen[0]" 0 0 EndSection Section "DRI" Group "video" Mode 0660 EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "true" Option "DAMAGE" "true" EndSection And... a number of variations to the above from what you see above down to the bare minimum of: Section "Device" BoardName "RS690M" Driver "radeon" # Driver "radeonhd" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "ATI" EndSection but still no joy.... -- 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