xorg's radeon driver (was: Re: [ltp] switch between clone mode and second screen)

[Christof Musik]

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Hi

Could you post your config, because I tried DVI with XOrg 6.8.1 and it
didn't worked for me.

Thanks
Christof

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:23:03PM +0100, Uwe Walter wrote:
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> On Mi, 2005-02-09 at 16:03 -0800, obi wrote:
> > Great job on the radeon driver!
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> I would like to emphasize this.
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> Kudos to its developers!
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> After suffering just too long from ATI's fglrx driver and staring two
> months on an external panel connected via VGA (because of the broken
> DVI), I went through the (not too big) hassle, finally installed XOrg on
> my debian system and gave the open source radeon driver a new try.
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> * DVI works (how wonderful a sharp picture can be :-)),
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> * ACPI sleep and resume works
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> * The MonitorLayout options work (MergeFB, etc. However, I'm not
> finished with my setup, so I'm listening very interested to the current
> clone thread, as I would have pretty similar wished as Ulrich).
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> * [VMWare still works (critical for me)]
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> And it even seems, powersaving is not worse than with fglrx. Indeed the
> whole Thinkpad seems to be one or two degrees cooler (GPU between
> 48-51?, where fglrx was between 50?-53?)! But these were only
> preliminary tests, so take them with a big grain of salt!
> (@Alex: You're responsible for DynamicClocks? Great job! :-))
> Probably, this could be because
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> - 3D acceleration is gone, of course (Fire GL2, Radeon 9600)
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> Anything comes for a price and this is currently mine.
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> If only ATI would give out more docs to the radeon coders, then they
> might even be able to fix this. ;-)
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> Regarding the "competition": The next release of ATI's fglrx is
> scheduled for the current month and I hope the have fixed some of the
> bigger issues and will surely give them a try. But anyhow:
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> I think, the open source radeon driver is a great work! :-)
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> Greetings, UW(e)
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> --
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