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Veliant

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Registered: 2010-10-09

Posts: 1

Current testing breaks xf86-video-ati

Package:
xf86-video-ati-6.13.2-1-i686
ati-dri-7.9-1-i686

Dont start the X server. Crash, loading module 'radeon'.

Hardware:
Laptop Samsung R20 Plus, video ATI x1250

guitar76

Member

Registered: 2009-07-18

Posts: 8

Re: Current testing breaks xf86-video-ati

Personally haven't tried it yet, but isnt xf86-video-ati version 6.13.2-2(!) in testing?

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,642

Re: Current testing breaks xf86-video-ati

works for me. do you have fully -Syu'ed?

tydell

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From: actually: Hannover, DE

Registered: 2009-07-26

Posts: 109

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Re: Current testing breaks xf86-video-ati

in testing there is xf86-video-ati 6.13.2-2 version, I also have ati-dri-7.9-1, I use compiz standalone and when I try to start it by startx command I get info something like this:
unknown session
glxinfo not found

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Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: Current testing breaks xf86-video-ati

glxinfo is in a separate package mesa-demos.

tydell

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From: actually: Hannover, DE

Registered: 2009-07-26

Posts: 109

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Re: Current testing breaks xf86-video-ati

You're right, i missed that, now everything work's fine

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Current testing breaks xf86-video-ati

so compiz is using glxinfo to detect stuff? how stupid

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Bl@ster

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From: Rome

Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 51

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Re: Current testing breaks xf86-video-ati

Not Compiz, Fusion Icon I think

abraxas88

Member

From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2009-12-12

Posts: 88

Re: Current testing breaks xf86-video-ati

I can confirm that the ATi drivers currently in testing painfully slows down the performance, the system is very "laggy"