ati radeon X1200 rotation problem

Michal Humpula michal.humpula at hudrydum.cz
Sat Feb 7 09:13:10 PST 2009


On Saturday 07 February 2009 16:54:45 Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Michal Humpula
> > On Saturday 07 February 2009 01:45:42 Alex Deucher wrote:
> >> > I've got 690G chipset on my motherboard. With radeon driver in xorg I
> >> > successfully have acceleration, but I also have a problem with
> >> > rotating screen to be able to fully use my widescreen monitor. After
> >> > rotation (left or right) the lower half of screen is black and the
> >> > upper half is show some small defects too. Is there some way for me to
> >> > fix this?
> >> >
> >> > I've tested this on debian version of radeon driver, both testing
> >> > (6.9.0) and experimental (6.9.0) with appropriate version of xorg, on
> >> > both vga and dvi connection and widescreen and normal resolution.
> >> > Always the same problem.
> >>
> >> This should be fixed now in git.
> >>
> >> Alex
> >
> > Thanks a lot! I've substitute the src directory in debian experimental
> > radeon package with the directory in git repository. I've compiled the
> > package and it it's working just fine. Only bad thing is that the render
> > is quite slow (1sec to redraw the whole screen) :( I hope this will get
> > better some day.
>
> Is this a regression?  Also, make sure you are using EXA.

Oh, great! With EXA working just fine:) Thanks.
Seem's that kde3 have some problem choosing right sized fonts for applications 
launched after rotation, but I can live with that.

Thanks again 

Michael





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