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Hi everyone,
I installed Arch several days ago and I really enjoy it. Had some driver problems but most of them are resolved already and the experience gets better and better.
Its running on a Lenovo IdeaPad S205 netbook using an AMD E-350 Zacate CPU and a Radeon HD 6310.
I started with 'xf86-video-ati', switched to 'catalyst-hook' from the cytalyst repo though.
The wiki says otherwise, but I tried to remove the 'nomodeset' argument out of curiosity and it seems to work.
Animations in GNOME3 greatly improved and it seems the framebuffer resolution is set correct, too.
glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep GLX
AIGLX: Loaded and initialized OpenGL driver(II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0
What I want to know is if...
a) I completely screwed up my driver setup
b) the wiki entry is old and it really works together with the 'catalyst' package
Have a nice day, whoever is reading this
Last edited by xsmile (2012-03-31 01:50:13)
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You're probably not using catalyst then. It's not possible for it to work together with KMS. The "Direct Rendering" line is meaningless nowadays, post the "OpenGL Renderer string" line. Also post xorg.conf or other .conf files you have.
Last edited by Gusar (2012-03-31 08:42:59)
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glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics
xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:0:1:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
lsmod
fuse 67706 2
aes_x86_64 7508 1
cryptd 8309 0
aes_generic 26138 1 aes_x86_64
joydev 9927 0
snd_hda_codec_conexant 46938 1
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 24240 1
arc4 1410 2
rt2800pci 9373 0
rt2800lib 40292 1 rt2800pci
rt2x00pci 5082 1 rt2800pci
rt2x00lib 35247 3 rt2x00pci,rt2800lib,rt2800pci
eeprom_93cx6 2175 1 rt2800pci
snd_hda_intel 23631 2
uvcvideo 69085 0
crc_ccitt 1363 1 rt2800lib
mac80211 396060 3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00pci,rt2800lib
videobuf2_vmalloc 2468 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 2182 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core 20639 1 uvcvideo
snd_hda_codec 92950 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant
videodev 94558 2 videobuf2_core,uvcvideo
rts5139 328687 0
snd_hwdep 6389 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 74812 3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_page_alloc 7153 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 19544 1 snd_pcm
cfg80211 176921 2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
acer_wmi 20089 0
media 10597 2 videodev,uvcvideo
ideapad_laptop 8534 0
sparse_keymap 3120 2 ideapad_laptop,acer_wmi
snd 59858 11 snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant
serio_raw 4653 0
r8169 49168 0
rfkill 15530 4 ideapad_laptop,acer_wmi,cfg80211
soundcore 6210 1 snd
battery 6453 0
ac 2344 0
i2c_piix4 8256 0
mii 4091 1 r8169
k10temp 2883 0
evdev 9626 16
i2c_core 20524 2 i2c_piix4,videodev
psmouse 69904 0
thermal 7799 0
video 11164 0
wmi 8443 1 acer_wmi
pcspkr 1835 0
phc_k8 19486 0
mperf 1243 1 phc_k8
processor 25981 3 phc_k8
ext4 424616 3
crc16 1359 1 ext4
jbd2 71939 1 ext4
mbcache 5881 1 ext4
sd_mod 28371 5
ohci_hcd 21727 0
ahci 20133 4
libahci 19455 1 ahci
ehci_hcd 43864 0
libata 167582 2 libahci,ahci
scsi_mod 134028 3 libata,sd_mod,rts5139
usbcore 146465 5 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,rts5139,uvcvideo
usb_common 954 1 usbcore
fglrx 3157063 101
button 4470 1 fglrx
Beside that, I just modified 'xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf' for Ctrl-Alt-Backspace support.
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I don't see the radeon driver among the modules. So you're indeed not using KMS.
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It was there, until I blacklisted it as the wiki recommend. But it didn't make any difference. Actually I forgot to do that during the installation process..
What still makes me wonder is why the animations improved after removing 'nomodeset'.
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