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 Jordan Metzmeier
Yes, and none of those resolution even have a 16:10 aspect ratio. I would give fglrx drivers a try before doing something drastic like upgrading to testing. Link: http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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 Stephen Powell
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:00:22 -0500 (EST), Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > From my experience, the resolution issue is usually a side-effect of > xorg falling back to vesa. xrandr can be used to adjust to resolution > if it is not automatically configured to the proper setting. Hmm. Perhaps you're right.

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, Maybe try setting up the drivers with sgfxi? http://techpatterns.com/forums/about933.html Regards, Angus.

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
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 xserver without one. If you are >> finding that without a xorg.conf

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread Stephen Powell
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 xserver without one. If you are > finding that without a xorg.conf it attempts to load radeon, fails, > then falls back to ves

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:51:06 -0500 (EST), George Sullivan wrote: > New Screen section looks like: > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Device "Configured Video Device" > Monitor "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > > Same results. xorg won'

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
The open source radeon drivers should work without a xorg.conf. Try moving the xorg.conf and running xserver without one. If you are finding that without a xorg.conf it attempts to load radeon, fails, then falls back to vesa you could be looking at an issue of incompatibility. -- Jordan Metzmeier

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 primary device > > (EE) No d

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:12:01 -0500 (EST), George Sullivan wrote: > 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 >>> (--) Assi

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread Stephen Powell
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 primary device > (EE) No devices detected. Please provide your complete /etc/X11/xorg.conf f