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xsmile

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Registered: 2012-03-31

Posts: 31

catalyst & KMS seem to work

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)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: catalyst & KMS seem to work

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)

xsmile

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Registered: 2012-03-31

Posts: 31

Re: catalyst & KMS seem to work

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.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: catalyst & KMS seem to work

I don't see the radeon driver among the modules. So you're indeed not using KMS.

xsmile

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Registered: 2012-03-31

Posts: 31

Re: catalyst & KMS seem to work

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'.