On 12/15/2009 08:47 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I have been trying the X.org radeonhd driver. I am currently using
xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_20091124_6387ab4-4.1.i586.rpm
and, in most respects, it is working fine. Occasional screen artifacts
or no 3D acceleration in vmware are things I can live with. The main
problem I have is that in many apps the cursor is not working properly.
Quite often it goes away or is left on the screen at an outdated
position. I see this in evolution and openOffice, I am sure it is
elsewhere.
I am guessing the default is some sort of hardware cursor. The radeon
man page says that the software cursor can be selected with:
Option "SWcursor" "boolean"
I am not using an xorg.conf file. I was hoping to keep it that way. But
I guess I will need one to set this option. My question is, what would
be the absolute minimum file I could make to get this setting used?
Roger,
If you are having any problems with the radeonhd driver, please post them to
the radeonhd list (sponsored by opensuse). The list address is:
.
The main page containing all the relevant information is:
http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd
It is very helpful if you can pull the latest code from the git repository
and test that. Just make sure you have git installed and then:
$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd
Then building the package is simple:
i586:
./autogen.sh --prefix /usr
x86_64
./autogen.sh --prefix /usr --libdir /usr/lib64
Then just the normal:
make
make install (as root)
Then logout and log back in.
To update the source from the git repository later, just cd to the
xf86-video-radeonhd (I usually just rename it 'rhd') and then type:
git pull
and it will update your install to the latest addition. The git repository is
usually light-years ahead of the packaged driver.
The more help Matthias and the rest of the guys working on the driver can
get, the faster the pace of development will be. I have some additional work
to do there myself.
Also, to everyone else on the list with a radeon R6XX or R7XX card, if you
have a few spare minutes of time, please pull the driver and test it and
provide any feedback to the radeonhd list. Any help is much appreciated.
Now this was a surprize -- and could it be -- yes, A new nickname :p
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