On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Dan<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi people. > > I have managed to get a KMS kernel booting without oopsing. > radeon.agpmode=-1 does the trick. I have 2 problems now. Firstly, the mode > that KMS brings up is out of sync for my LCD monitor. Does the driver detect > the capabilities of the attached monitor, or does it use hard-coded > defaults? >
you need to load fbcon if you want a framebuffer console. > Anyway, when X starts ( xf86-video-ati & mesa from git ), things come to > life again. X reports that DRI2 has initialised. My next problem is that > ecomorph & compiz run very, very slowly. The screen will redraw a small > section, near where the mouse is, every 5 seconds or so. Is this to be > expected? Or should I get usable performance in compiz? Performance with the kernel memory manager is not up to the level of the old driver yet. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
