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gav616

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 182

[SOLVED] direct rendering not working [xf86-video-ati]

tried everything I know, but just can't get it working

if someone could go through fix possibility's with me, that would be good.

things I've tried already;

arch 'ATI' wiki
removing everything to do with graphics 'yaourt -Rc' and files on disk then reinstalling

/etc/rc.conf

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MODULES=(radeon)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng iptables @network @crond @alsa  @openntpd)

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "k0"
    Driver        "kbd"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load            "glx"
  Load            "dri"
  Load            "drm"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "v0"
    Driver        "radeon"
#    Option         "AGPMode" "8"
#    Option         "AGPFastWrite" "0"
#    Option         "EnablePageFlip" "1" 
#    Option         "AccelMethod" "EXA"
#    Option         "ColorTiling" "1"
#    Option         "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "m0"
    DisplaySize    336 269
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "s0"
    Device         "v0"
    Monitor        "m0"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

#Section "Extensions"
#    Option        "Composite" "0"
#EndSection

#Section "ServerFlags"
#    Option        "AIGLX" "0" 
#EndSection

Section "DRI"
 Group                "video"
 Mode             0666
EndSection

Last edited by gav616 (2008-09-15 15:07:45)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: [SOLVED] direct rendering not working [xf86-video-ati]

What's your card?
You don't need "radeon" in MODULES, and neither the Module section in xorg.conf, nor the DRI one.

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gav616

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 182

Re: [SOLVED] direct rendering not working [xf86-video-ati]

What's your card?
You don't need "radeon" in MODULES, and neither the Module section in xorg.conf, nor the DRI one.

yeap, removing 'radeon' from 'MODULES=' seems to of loaded the driver in the right order and made DRI work,

thank you.