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Shazzam6999

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2010-05-11

Posts: 27

[Solved] Choppy Graphics + Unable to Auto Start Gnome

Edit: Fixed the graphics issue by deleting my xorg conf and downloading my video driver again. Uncommenting fixed the boot up issue. Thanks!

Alright, I just installed Arch for my first time and I'm only really having two problems. The first problem is that the graphics are extremely laggy. I'm using gnome with a radeon hd4850 and I think the problem is my xorg file.

Here is my xorg.conf: it mentions the driver and my video card; however, I'm a little unsure that it's actually using my video card. I checked the wiki but I'm not sure what exactly it is I'm supposed to do.

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/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    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   "RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]"
    BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
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
Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

My second problem isn't a big one at all. I simply have to enter xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session each time I boot up the computer. I thought I followed the beginner's guide verbatim but I must have done something wrong. Here is my .xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

# exec gnome-session
exec xterm

Thanks ahead of time for all the help, I really appreciate it.

Last edited by Shazzam6999 (2010-05-12 01:04:05)

Bestiapeluda

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 181

Re: [Solved] Choppy Graphics + Unable to Auto Start Gnome

I think you should uncomment "# exec gnome-session"