Joerg Bruehe schrieb:
Hi all,
recently, the company got me a new machine with a 6-core AMD Phenom II, it has the AMD 890 GX chipset which includes Radeon HD 4290 graphics.
My operating system is Debian stable (5.0, "lenny"), it reports the "xorg" package to be version 1:7.3+20 which includes "vesa" (1:1.3.0-4) and "radeon" 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4.
It seems this "radeon" version does not support the graphics chip, and neither does "radeonhd" - my only chance till now was "vesa". I don't care about lack of acceleration (my use is software development and the usual office stuff), but I need rotation - which "vesa" doesn't support.
I tried ATI's proprietary "Catalyst" drivers, all three versions 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6: As soon as I installed one, I got trouble in "bash" - file name completion by tab was affected (needed one extra "tab" hit), and prompts after command execution were displayed only if after I used the keyboard. I took this to mean there are severe incompatibilities and fell back on the vesa driver.
To get rotation working, I installed a Matrox Millennium 200 SD using the "mga" driver, and this works fine. But as the Matrox doesn't have a DVI output, whereas my rotated monitor has such an input, I would really prefer to use the on-board graphics.
Are there any recommendations what I might try?
The machine is set up for dual boot, so I can keep one root partition stable and try different drivers and setups in the other one.
They claim that this test is done with the Catalyst driver: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd4290&num=1 re, wh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+help@opensuse.org