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allbluedream

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Registered: 2008-04-06

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[SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

Upgraded to Gnome3 from [testing] today.

$ pacman -Qs video-ati
local/xf86-video-ati 6.14.1-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org ati video driver

This driver comes from [testing].

However, from Gnome Control Center --> System Info --> Graphics, it says "driver: Unknown", like this:

Why could Gnome not recognize my video driver? Am I configuring the driver in the wrong way? Can someone point the way to me?

I only have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf configured according to the wiki:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "r"
    Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Some general information

$ uname -a
Linux arch 2.6.38-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 30 07:14:27 UTC 2011 i686 Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4500 @ 2.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

p.s.
My first post in the testing sub-board, so maybe I've got an attitude not suitable here. Anyway, I did try to solve the problem myself, and am just not skilled enough for this. Please help me.

edit:
My video card is an HD 4570.

Last edited by allbluedream (2011-04-20 13:28:14)

Vamp898

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Registered: 2009-01-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

Maybe its becease the [testing] repo.

It worked fine with exactly that card on my second PC using the [gnome-unstable] repo (which is clean now afaik)

allbluedream

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

I do remember that it worked with [gnome-unstable].

ahioros

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

i have the same problem my card is: ATI Technologies Inc RS780MC [Radeon HD 3100 Graphics]  :-(

Yes

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Registered: 2008-03-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

Same thing, although I don't seem to have any problems because of it - videos play fine, windows move fine, etc.  Do you have any problems?

SeyZ

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Registered: 2008-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

I have the same problem and I don't want to use the gnome-unstable repository. Somebody has a fix ?

SeyZ

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Registered: 2008-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

Thanks to delete this message (it's an error).

Last edited by SeyZ (2011-04-11 16:49:38)

HyperBaton

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Registered: 2008-01-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

I'm using [testing] with a Radeon 5850 and xf86-video-ati, driver says 'Gallium 0.4 on AMD CYPRESS ' for me.

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

do you have mesa-demos installed? I think the panel uses glxinfo

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HyperBaton

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

I can confirm I have it installed yes.

Kane

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Registered: 2006-10-08

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

I don't know if this is relevant, but i alsa had the issue with it not recognising the open source driver.
It turns out i had added vga and nomodeset or something to my kernel parameters.

Removing these fixed the issue and gnome3 works perfectly now.

Kane

EDIT: I also had the same issue on an eeepc with intel graphics, where gnome would start up in fallback mode (and said unknown graphics driver), i had upgraded doing Syu but this didnt appear to get all the required gnome packages (had gnome2 installed previously), but after -S testing/gnome, it is now working fine on the eeepc also.

Last edited by Kane (2011-04-15 11:35:08)

allbluedream

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 does not recognize the ati open source driver

Installing mesa-demos seems to solve the problem, and now I get "Gallium 0.4 on softpipe". Marking the thread "SOLVED".