xf86-video-ati and Radeon HD 7600M Series

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Thilo Cestonaro <thilo at cestona.ro> wrote:
>>> And found this in Xorg.0.log:
>>> [  2219.770] (**) RADEON(G0): Option "ColorTiling2D" "False"
>>> [  2219.771] (II) RADEON(G0): KMS Color Tiling: enabled
>>> [  2219.771] (II) RADEON(G0): KMS Color Tiling 2D: disabled
>>>
>>> But it changed nothing regarding 3D glitches.
>>>
>>
>> How about disabling tiling completely?
>> Option "ColorTiling" "false"
>>
> Both ColorTiling are disabled now. But that has no effect on the 3D Glichtes.

You might want to file a bug so we can better track this.  This thread
is getting unwieldy.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org
Attach your xorg log and dmesg and glxinfo output.

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>
>>>
>>>> You can also try mesa 8.0.5.
>>>
>>> Should I downgrade to ver. 8.0.5?? I though that xf86-video-ati needs mesa
>>> 9.X.X ??
>>
>> xf86-video-ati 7.x needs mesa 9.x for 2D tiling.  If you disabling
>> tiling you can mix and match with older releases.
>>
>
> Ok. Will try mesa from git with tag 8.0.5 .... just install every lib mesa builds or just specific ones?

yeah.  Just install the whole mesa package.

Alex