RS690 with the -ati driver, interesting xorg.log ?

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:50 AM, JoJo jojo <onetwojojo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>   I tried the -ati driver on RS690,
>   (ubuntu packages from: https://launchpad.net/%7Etormodvolden/+archive)
>
>   1) changes more modes to show gnome login screen than radeonhd
>   2) dri crashed(due to not using latest mesa & dri), but it crashed the
>   X server as well
>   3) glxgears ~650, entirely using the CPU alone
>   4) was unable to change resolution via gui (GNOME) ?

DRI support isn't quite stable yet.  You might try forcing the size of
the framebuffer in the bios if you have the option.  on some cards if
you force it to a size, like 128 MB, rather than setting it to "auto,"
it works better.  Your best bet for changing modes is the xrandr
utility.  Some of the gui utilities are not randr 1.2 aware and the
1.0 compat stuff doesn't always work well.

Alex