any ETA on improved ATI drivers?
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Jul 5 13:05:43 UTC 2009
On Sunday 05 July 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 04 July 2009, Frank Cox wrote:
>> >On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:05:14 -0400
>> >
>> >Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> Me 3. But in my case, once it starts, only a reboot will stop it.
>> >> Using the radeonhd driver with an HD2400 Pro card.
>> >
>> >I am running F11 with a Radeon X1950 Pro card and haven't had any
>> > problems at all with the comes-with-Fedora video driver. I didn't have
>> > to do a thing to get it working with my wide-screen monitor when I
>> > installed F11 on this computer, and I haven't had to do anything with it
>> > since.
>>
>> But your card is not an HD family card. That would seem to be the
>> operative keyword. It works ok for days at a time. But when it
>> starts that, I may as well just do a graceful reboot & be done with
>> it.
>
> there are currently two issues with radeon drivers that i've been
>involved with, either reporting in BZ or suffering from.
>
> the first -- which i'm willing now to admit isn't a video driver
>issue after all -- is the screen on my laptop just going dark
>arbitrarily, even while i'm in the middle of work, so it's not a
>screensaver issue. as someone else suggested, it's more likely a
>power management issue.
I think it could be related, Robert, but don't want to lay my hand anywhere
near the good book as I simply don't know enough about it. There is another,
possibly kde-ish item that I haven't had to fiddle with recently, and that is
its forgetfulness about screen blanking. That's where I get up in the morning
and find the monitor has been powered up all night, and I have to go into the
menus, change something related to enable the apply button, and resave the
prefs both in the blanker and display power menu's. But I haven't had that
happen in a couple of weeks now.
> the other issue -- which is still happening -- is that when i'm
>working in the gnome desktop, trying to do something *suddenly* (a
>quick window resize, or drag and drop) will cause the cursor to change
>to the 4-way arrow, then give extremely slow response to moving, at
>which point the rest of the session is frozen. the cursor can still
>be moved very slowly, but nothing else is available. a reboot seems
>to be required.
>
>rday
This last doesn't seem to apply here Robert, but then I'm using
kde-4.2something.
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