radeon driver / fc12 / ati hd 4770

[gary artim]

Thanks Tom --

I'll give it a shot. Any other options/opinions are welcomed -- l'll
gladly put a wiki up explaining how and what works if i can make that
happen -- don't you just love video cards!?

-- Gary

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:23:09 -0800
> gary artim wrote:
>
>> Any other options I could try to fix this? I'd be happy as a clam if
>> it just worked right, no 3d, just a good snappy screen.
>
> On my system at work with a radeon HD card, I finally switched to
> the radeonhd driver and by disabling enough options, got it to
> be reliable in 2d. I added nomodeset to kernel options and made
> an xorg.conf file with this for the driver:
>
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Videocard0"
>        Option      "DRI" "off"
>        Option      "AccelMethod" "shadowfb"
>        Option      "NoRandr"
>        Option      "UnverifiedFeatures" "off"
>        Driver      "radeonhd"
> EndSection
>
> This works with my HD 2400 PRO, but who knows if it will work
> for anthing else :-).
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