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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #334101
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 334101

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Yves Glodt (yglodt) wrote :

OK tried XAA and it feels better.

But now I got the shiny 6.12 driver and expected EXA to work, but it does not look like it works... Some data:

uname -a
Linux viking 2.6.28-10-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 16 02:48:55 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Excerpts from Xorg.0.log:

[ 0.514602] (--) PCI:*(0@1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series rev 0, Mem @ 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xd0020000/65536, I/O @ 0x0000d000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
...
[ 0.515178] (II) "extmod" will be loaded by default.
[ 0.515194] (II) "dbe" will be loaded by default.
[ 0.515207] (II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
[ 0.515220] (II) "record" will be loaded by default.
[ 0.515234] (II) "dri" will be loaded by default.
[ 0.515247] (II) "dri2" will be loaded by default.
...
[ 0.621783] (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
[ 0.622137] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
[ 0.719498] (II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
 compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 6.12.0
 Module class: X.Org Video Driver
 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
...
[ 1.204269] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM [dri] Disabling DRI.
...
[ 2.221159] (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed
...
[ 2.457331] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
[ 2.457389] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable