From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRELQ-0002tz-8Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:57:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E50BE01F8; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F176AE01F8 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:57:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so3369264fxm.34 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:57:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=hfQ2G6cAlwKM7+NlnwT6Cyi4nLRl1qP+eiM3OCoOC+s=; b=hu6jQWclqKgk8KsD3jzskc1nA9KztLN56ZrD8p83u6CsuYVC+T7ax/4bcZQypKr5+Z rElhMt8NvlXCD5C3dbWp2+uLadETcVXr6/ZayicbASZ7+F/Tm6Z4IuM7AbFQWiWAoHhX ysWK9OXWQTsWmurvq/lfq7tXGFNJiXT3xf+jo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=euayXZ6LcFRTLiciB9XqmAtvBjFECZF2sF9EJ3aqUFbtWCc9s3erV9E9GK7R6/mzjk SbXaZ51TDLt5FC0G6DWww+9hFE2gcmjqNb8q/CuLFeNh0rYfwqEFpHWgZgbQ2sHU5V/o 25WnZrUcElPH3tXZ3z/sLqr/+mGwGEqs7MP9E= Received: by 10.204.63.208 with SMTP id c16mr8220332bki.131.1247702222156; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm11869317bwz.13.2009.07.15.16.57.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:57:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:56:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.30.1r4; KDE/4.3.60; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090715165041.0983e228@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <20090715165041.0983e228@dartworks.biz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200907160156.57379.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d8990096-caa3-46bd-8e47-d0bec4c7723a X-Archives-Hash: f7013459407c02a9c7b4745ae9ec52f2 On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:10:35 +0000 (UTC) > > James wrote: > > I thought I'd post my working xorg.conf with ati-drivers-9.6. > > It can probable be whittle down more, but it works with > > xorg-server-1.6.2-r1 so I done for now..... > > thx to all that help.... > > Just FYI, I also have a recent ATI card in my system. I tried the > ati-drivers initially, but they suck. They perform poorly for 2D, and > they are strictly 32bit so you also have to run mixed-mode X server on a > 64 bit system. so very wrong. > > The open-source x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati package works much better. > If you don't really need the 3D acceleration I'd recommend you switch > to that. except that they don't have working powermanagment, increasing energy consumption (a lot) and noise (even more).