On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:54:19 +0100 Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote:
> On 2019-03-13 11:28 p.m., Antonio Ospite wrote: [...] > > In particular, having both the settngs below in > > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-radeon.conf makes Xorg fail to start when > > using the xserver-xorg-video-radeon driver: > > > > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > > Option "TearFree" "on" > > > > Anyway, removing these options fixes the issue for me. > > > > Not sure if this is a regression [...] > > It is, thanks for the report. Fixed by > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/79bc0e054f37026377d54cac6cd8127d4aa9baca > . > Great, thanks. > That said, I recommend against forcing EXA, unless there's a good reason > for it. glamor generally works better these days. > > Also, FWIW, TearFree no longer needs to be enabled in xorg.conf but can > be configured dynamically with xrandr. See the radeon manpage on TearFree. > Yeah it was some stale config I had from the past when I was maybe trying to solve some compatibility issue with some program, I don't really remember. I now removed those settings. Ciao, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite https://ao2.it https://twitter.com/ao2it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
