[ltp] Re: New ati-drivers out there

[Nikias Bassen]

Yepp:

I'm running my favorite config for my Xorg: fglrx with direct
rendering enabled, working fine.
When resuming, before switching to X, I restore the state of my
FireGL T2 with vbetool, and then I start an X session with
another serverlayout, without dri:

xinit /bin/true -- `command -v X` :9 -layout fglrestore -auth /dev/null
-audit 0 -nolisten tcp

And the temperature falls to the same level it was when I do a clean boot
of my machine.

My xorg.conf is here:

http://iwear.tzi.de/~nikias/xorg.conf

a bit "untidy" but it works :)


Greetings,
Nikias

> Hi Nikias,
> 
> can you be more precise please, perhaps I have missed something, but
> what is the theory behind starting the server without dri and do you use
> dri afterwards? How much does the temp fall?
> 
> Regards
> Thomas
> 
> Nikias Bassen wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > 
> > I manged to get fglrx resume work with vbetool, and managed the
> > temperature problem using a dummy X-Server using fglrx without dri.
> > Just a short startup is enough, and the temperature falls, and the
> > fan stops, really!
> > 
> > Hope it helps,
> > Nikias
> > 
> > 
> >>okay, but with all tools (radeontool / vbetool), you'll have problems: X
> >>crashes sometimes after resume, always higher temperature => higher
> power 
> >>consumption!!! You are right, but I use XFree4.3, it's working worser
> than
> >>Xorg. (debian etch)
> >>Why does ati have the nerve to sell a graphic card without (or really 
> >>perfectly bad) drivers.
> >>
> >>Nils
> > 
> > 
> 
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