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aparthia

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Registered: 2010-09-04

Posts: 46

GNOME uses VESA? (catalyst driver installed)

Hey, I have decided I wanted to try Gnome 3 in Arch coming from awesome.

I know there are problems with the closed-source driver and gnome-shell at the moment it's just some random coloring at the top and flickering with the screen, though when I open the "System Settings" app and go to System Info I get this info under Graphics. Driver: VESA: M92. I have catalyst setup and the xorg.conf repots that it has the driver as fglrx

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Is this just a error showing the wrong driver or does GNOME automagically switch to the VESA driver when it detects the fglrx driver?

Cdh

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 1,098

Re: GNOME uses VESA? (catalyst driver installed)

Yes, gnome3 still doesn't work correctly with fglrx.
For my hd 6550 it says "VESA: CAPILANO" and I have no idea what that means.

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