[opensuse-xorg] What are the driver recommendations for Radeon HD 4290?

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. Regards and TIA, Jörg -- Joerg Bruehe - persoenliche Aeusserung / speaking only for himself mailto:joerg.bruehe@web.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+help@opensuse.org

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

Hi Walter, all, walter harms wrote:
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.
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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.
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They claim that this test is done with the Catalyst driver: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd4290&num=1
Yes, I've seen that article. I've also seen one in the Ubuntu wiki, giving detailed installation notes (in German): http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/howto-ati-radeon-hd-4290-auf-amd-890gx-pro... So I know the driver exists and is working for some, just not for me. For me, the driver worked in so far as that I could install it, and it produced the image correctly. But as I was maintaining my various xorg.conf* files, I did cd /etc/X11 ls -l xo<TAB> and did not get that expanded to ls -l xorg.conf unless I hit TAB a second time. After doing this and adding the '*', I got the files displayed, but then typically didn't get a prompt unless I input some character (a blank, or a cursor movement). I noticed this effect with all three versions of the catalyst driver, and all three times it was gone on uninstalling it - which was enough for me to declare this combination unsuitable. My kernel is 2.6.26-2-amd64 on a SMP CPU (6-core), so the drivers may easily work with different kernels. My hope here is to get a hint about some variant of the "radeon" driver that supports this chipset, but as the chip seems to be rather new, I know the chances are limited. Any hint? Jörg -- Joerg Bruehe - persoenliche Aeusserung / speaking only for himself mailto:joerg.bruehe@web.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+help@opensuse.org
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