From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0025B13989D for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:17:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AFE5E0899; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:17:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DC23E0876 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUloN-0001kw-NS for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 03:17:04 +0200 Received: from 216.240.144.33 ([216.240.144.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 03:17:03 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 216.240.144.33 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 03:17:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off? Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:16:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20150826181647.70b62983@a6> References: <20150819191820.6aa6d015@a6> <20150825182824.1a4d8dea@a6> <20150826054724.768f37ad@hal9000.localdomain> <201508260937.16531.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.240.144.33 X-Archives-Salt: c2cf43dc-f83c-47b3-b37f-165bc4da826b X-Archives-Hash: 92f963ecb2f7d4344bb85f7b44ccf326 On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:36:59 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 26 Aug 2015 04:47:24 wabenbau@gmail.com wrote: > > walt wrote: > > > > Then I generated an xorg.conf in the old way using 'Xorg > > > -configure'. That file didn't work right either. > > > > > > Then I finally realized that the generated xorg.conf had, in the > > > Section "Device" section, this line: > > > > > > Driver "radeon" > > This is the correct driver. > > > > > But that's not what we want. To use the open-source ati driver I > > > changed that line to read: > > > > > > Driver "ati" > > This is what I recall it used to be, but now it is "radeon". I just tried an experiment. I started my xfce4 session twice, once with Driver "radeon": (II) LoadModule: "radeon" [ 4055.387] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so [ 4055.387] (II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 4055.387] compiled for 1.17.2, module version = 7.5.0 [ 4055.387] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [ 4055.387] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0 and again with Driver "ati": (II) LoadModule: "ati" [ 4444.981] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so [ 4444.981] (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 4444.981] compiled for 1.17.2, module version = 7.5.0 [ 4444.981] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [ 4444.981] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0 I grant you that tonight I don't see any difference in behavior between the two "Driver"s, but I did yesterday. But that was 24 hours ago when the moon was in a different phase and my evil computer spirits were in a bad mood, apparently. As I said, I find this whole subject so confusing that I can't explain anything about it, even to myself. To answer wabe's question, lspci -k shows 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6530D] Subsystem: Lenovo BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6530D] Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon