On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:10:28 +0200 <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: Kernel driver in use: radeon
<gigabytes snipped for readability> Hi wabe. This whole radeon thing is so confusing I thought I'd mention one more very confusing detail that I had to fix before I got the open- source ati/radeon driver to work correctly: First I tried starting my X session with no xorg.conf file at all. That didn't work but of course I can't remember now what went wrong. (That was already more than 24 hours ago :) Then I generated an xorg.conf in the old way using 'Xorg -configure'. That file didn't work right either. Then I finally realized that the generated xorg.conf had, in the Section "Device" section, this line: Driver "radeon" But that's not what we want. To use the open-source ati driver I changed that line to read: Driver "ati" And that's when everything finally started to work perfectly. One more thing that confused me: the xf86-video-ati package doesn't install any kernel modules. It installs only these two files: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so but to use those files you need that Driver "ati" line in xorg.conf. <sigh>