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Hello,
Please, advice me how to configure RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series] to use radeonhd driver in archlinux. I have installed: xf86-video-vesa, xf86-video-fbdev, xf86-video-radeonhd, xf86-video-ati and its dependenscies. But xorg-server 1.8.1 (from testing) always uses xf86-video-ati driver (in stable 1.7.6 too). I try to make 'Xorg -configure' (attached) wich automaticaly generates radeonhd driver, but monitors blank on boot with message 'Not optimum mode'..
Here is my xorg.conf.new:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri2"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # [<str>]
#Option "offscreensize" # [<str>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ignoreconnector" # [<str>]
#Option "forcereduced" # [<bool>]
#Option "forcedpi" # <i>
#Option "useconfiguredmonitor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HPD" # <str>
#Option "NoRandr" # [<bool>]
#Option "RROutputOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVMode" # [<str>]
#Option "ScaleType" # [<str>]
#Option "UseAtomBIOS" # [<bool>]
#Option "AtomBIOS" # [<str>]
#Option "UnverifiedFeatures" # [<bool>]
#Option "Audio" # [<bool>]
#Option "AudioStreamSilence" # [<str>]
#Option "HDMI" # [<str>]
#Option "COHERENT" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceLowPowerMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "LowPowerModeEngineClock" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeonhd"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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In general: if you don't want 'Xorg -configure' to choose a certain driver, then you'd have to deinstall it.
But if that's your /etc/X11/xorg.conf then I don't know why it would choose -ati ... shouldn't happen.
Any reason why you prefer -radeonhd? I heard most development happens in -ati nowadays.
Last edited by byte (2010-06-08 22:05:45)
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Why do you want to use radeonhd? The xf86-video-ati driver is the better choice.
Read the ATI wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ati
If you really want to use radeonhd, you have to disable KMS by appending radeon.modeset=0 to your kernel paramters. KMS is not supported by this driver. And this driver is no longer in development.
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My videocard works faster with radeonhd. (it was, when i use slackware)
Thank you, now i know that "radeonhd's development has been unofficially halted".. will use ati driver.
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