Cannot get radeon hd4290 working with KMS

[Michel Dänzer]

On Die, 2011-03-29 at 11:07 +0200, A. Bischof wrote: 
> 
> But performance is still slow - I know glxgears is no benchmark,

Indeed, it's not.

> but I get 850FPS without KMS - maybe because of agpmode=-1?

Maybe.


> And btw, System Settings in KDE tells me "Compositing is not supported 
> on your system".

IIRC the KDE check for this doesn't always work correctly and can be
overridden. If that still doesn't help, you could try using the XRender
backend for compositing.


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