William Kenworthy wrote:
Thanks, its an R280 (9200) on an old athlon - but I'll give the upgrade
a go.
I don't think it will help on R280 (and it's not worth the hassle as
xf86-video-ati 6.9.0 pulls in many ~arch packages (maybe [M] too even).
As a starter, comment out every fancy stuff in xorg.conf and only use
the bare minimum. Something like this:
Section "Files"
# Your font paths here.
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Blabla"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "Blabla"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
