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Dinth

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Xf86-video-ati 6.12 released with R6xx/R7xx support

Finally some good, opensource drivers for newer Ati gfx cards
Here is changelog: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver … 08886.html
Cannot wait when it will be possible to test them on Arch

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They are already in AUR ! http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15374

Last edited by Dinth (2009-03-14 09:52:42)

Perry3D

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Re: Xf86-video-ati 6.12 released with R6xx/R7xx support

But the ati driver needs libdrm>=2.4.5. It is only in testing

R00KIE

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Re: Xf86-video-ati 6.12 released with R6xx/R7xx support

Well ... that shouldn't be an issue, hope xorg-server 1.6 hits extra soon libdrm should come along with it

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Dinth

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Re: Xf86-video-ati 6.12 released with R6xx/R7xx support

Unfortunately this driver causes plasma crash on startup for me.

Ranguvar

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Re: Xf86-video-ati 6.12 released with R6xx/R7xx support

Finally some good, opensource drivers for newer Ati gfx cards
Here is changelog: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver … 08886.html
Cannot wait when it will be possible to test them on Arch

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They are already in AUR ! http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15374

You do know xf86-video-radeonhd already supports those GPUs, and the new -ati driver is (I'm pretty sure) just a port of that support over?

@Dinth: Try tweaking your Xorg.conf... make a new one with Xorg -configure and/or hwd and try tweaking that... etc. I'm guessing you're using an Xorg.conf made from the AMD tool, and that that one doesn't work with the OSS driver?

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-03-14 22:10:10)

Dinth

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Re: Xf86-video-ati 6.12 released with R6xx/R7xx support

Ranguvar: no, thats confirmed KDE bug. Radeonhd is terrible slow at 2D and also causes Plasma crashes for me