Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 11/10/05, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> Richard Fish schreef:
> > If you want to try the ati-drivers, generally you just need to merge
> > the package and change the "Driver" setting in xorg.conf from radeon
> > to fglrx.
>
> Not completely true; the ati-driver module (fglrx) will not work if the

All true.  Sorry for the oversimplification.

> Apparently the fglrx module does not work in combination with the
> radeonfb driver,

My experience is that it works partially.  When I have used radeonfb
with fglrx, everything starts normally, including X and KDE.  But if I
try to switch to a console (or shutdown the system!), the system hangs
with a corrupted display.  So yes, radeonfb and fglrx should not be
used together.  Vesafb-tng behaves much better, although that is a
different thread altogether.

-Richard.

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