Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread George Sullivan
With Squeeze things "just worked". First performance was abysmal, dragging a window caused it to redraw it frame by frame. After enabling non-free and installing firmware-linux-nonfree that was fixed too. As I said before fglrx does work too but I wanted to find out why the free drivers aren't work

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread George Sullivan
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:21:18 -0500 (EST), Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >>> >>> The open source radeon drivers should work without a xorg.conf. Try >>> moving the xorg.conf and running xse

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread George Sullivan
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >It's complaining about a missing "Device" record in the Screen section. >The primary purpose of the Screen section is to join a Monitor section >and a Device section in Holy Matrimony. You've got a bride defined here >(the Monitor record) but

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread George Sullivan
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:41:53 -0500 (EST), George Sullivan wrote: > > [I] Suppose the relevant part of the log file is: > > > > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:05:0 > > (--) Assigning device section with no busID to

wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread George Sullivan
I have some troubles configuring xorg to user the correct resolution with the open sources ati drivers. My hardware is an AMD/ATI IGP, specifically the 760g chipset, according to wikipedia it comes with a radeon HD 3000 and is based on RV610. The display is 1920x1080 native connected via DVI. I u