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dkorzhevin

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From: Kiev, Ukraine

Registered: 2010-04-23

Posts: 61

radeonhd with RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]

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

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: radeonhd with RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]

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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Perry3D

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Registered: 2008-03-20

Posts: 553

Re: radeonhd with RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]

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.

dkorzhevin

Member

From: Kiev, Ukraine

Registered: 2010-04-23

Posts: 61

Re: radeonhd with RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]

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.