1400x1050 with fglrx
Joseph Holladay
jhollad at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 01:39:21 UTC 2008
Wow... what timing. It works now.
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:12 +0000, William John Murray wrote:
> >
> > Hello. Has anyone been successful in getting fglrx to work at
> > 1400x1050? I have a lenovo t60, and I can only get 1400x1050 with the
> > vesa driver. fglrx will only do 1280x1024 regardless of what the
> > Modes
> > line in xorg.conf says...
>
> Yes!!
> It has been broken for a while, but livna have the 8.1 fglrx driver
> rpms out today, and 1400x1050 is back, at least on Dell. There is a note
> in ATI/AMD's release notes to the effect it is a fixed bug.
>
> There are still no desktop effects. Does anyone know about that?
> If I type:
> compiz-manager
> I get:
> Checking for Xgl: not present.
> No whitelisted driver found
> aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
> Odd - I expected aiglx. I change compiz-manager to whitelist "fglrx",
> but get:
>
> Checking for Xgl: not present.
> Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:7183 (prog-if 00 [VGA
> controller])
> Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
> Trying again with indirect rendering:
> Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
> aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
>
> Which is strange, because:
> glxinfo | grep pixma
> GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
> GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
> GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Bill
>
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> RAL, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
>
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