John,

Support for HD5xxx was only added to radeon very recently, and the support needs to be ported across to radeonhd once some of the initial problems are worked out.

I see..

Unless you have built radeon from git master in the last few days you may find you are actually running vesa rather than radeon, btw.

I seem to be running 'radeon', not 'radeonhd'. if I try to force 'radeonhd', I get an error message saying '(EE) No devices detected'. I'm using Ubuntu packages made here: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa the latest radeonhd build being from 8th February. should I try a build from git? Akos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org

John,

Building radeonhd from git won't help yet.

I see.. let me know when there's a chance to try.. Akos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org

Rafal,

radeon (xf86-video-ati)

you're suggesting to use the radeon driver instead of radeonhd? that's what I'm using now, and interestingly it doesn't really work out well.. I was hoping radeonhd would be a more promising driver eventually.. Akos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org

Rafal,

Yes, I mean radeon (xf86-video-ati) instead of radeonhd (xf86-video-radeonhd). However you have to use git version.

The real promise for future is KMS, where kernel is responsible for setting modes (resolution, refreshing rate). However it's harder to test because you have to checkout and compile whole kernel from git.

I'm a bit confused now - should I compile the radeon driver from git, or should I compile the whole kernel from git latest? Akos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org

Rafal.

Both should work, so you can choose (between radeon==xf86-video-ati and KMS). In both cases you have to use code from git.

radeon is much easier and faster to checkout & compile.

I'm using the following xorg-video-ati driver version: 1:6.12.99+git20100213.221ef11b-0ubuntu0sarvatt built on 13th February, from here: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=lucid and when gdm wants to start up, I get the following error: (**) "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad": Device: "/dev/input/mouse1" (EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" (EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"" (II) config/udev: Adding input device "Macintosh mouse button emulation" (/dev/input/event3) (**) "Macintosh mouse button emulation": Device: "/dev/input/mouse0" (EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" (EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""Macintosh mouse button emulation"" and thus gdm crashes, though startx works out fine. I also get the following: (II) RADEON(0): RADEONInitMemoryMap() : (II) RADEON(0): mem_size : 0x10000000 (II) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0x00cf00c0 (II) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0x003f0000 (II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (2048,8191) (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1920) to (2048,1922) (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 2048 x 6269 (II) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() : (II) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0x00cf00c0 0x003f0000 (II) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0x003f0000 (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled am I doing anything wrong? (or should I post these on a different mailing list?) I can of course compile a more recent version from git.. Akos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org