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

[Matthias Hopf]

On Feb 28, 08 10:31:44 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >  And the delay before showing gdm login screen is due to -ati trying
> >  various settings?
> >  but radeonHD takes less time to come up.
> Probably.  checking for monitors on each output, etc.

Doubtful. radeonhd uses the standard RandR 1.2 mechanism for that as
well. Maybe the AtomBIOS calls take more time than direct programming,
especially for DDC (e.g. you cannot ping with AtomBIOS), but that is
only a rough guess.

Matthias

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