From: Nick H. <li...@gm...> - 2008-03-29 13:21:26
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hey guys. so i've been out of the loop in terms of running GNU/Linux on my 2nd generation MBPro C2D, and am wondering which driver people are using on theirs (with the ATI Mobility X1600 video card). what do you recommend? cheers, Nick |
From: Ludovic R. <lud...@gm...> - 2008-03-29 14:55:12
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Nick Hoffman <li...@gm...> wrote: > hey guys. so i've been out of the loop in terms of running GNU/Linux > on my 2nd generation MBPro C2D, and am wondering which driver people > are using on theirs (with the ATI Mobility X1600 video card). what do > you recommend? The radeonhd free software driver. http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau |
From: Pietro \m0nt0\ M. <mo...@gm...> - 2008-03-29 15:13:20
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Nick Hoffman ha scritto: > hey guys. so i've been out of the loop in terms of running GNU/Linux > on my 2nd generation MBPro C2D, and am wondering which driver people > are using on theirs (with the ATI Mobility X1600 video card). what do > you recommend? > > cheers, > Nick > It depends on what you want to do, if you want to play games, watch video using compiz the solution is the ati-drivers 8.40.4 with xgl. If you don't care about 3d or 2d acceleration radeonhd, if you can tolerate some bugs you can try the newest amd driver, the support compiz, aiglx but they have some bugs playing films while comipiz is enabled and so on. Obviously IMHO! Bye! Pietro |
From: paul s <mac...@qu...> - 2008-03-29 17:11:24
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i had great success with these cards on f8/kde/compiz/aiglx using the driver from ati or the kmod from livna... i spent a million hours on my xorg.xonf before everything worked smoothly, its attached... hope this helps... cheers paul Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote: > Nick Hoffman ha scritto: >> hey guys. so i've been out of the loop in terms of running GNU/Linux >> on my 2nd generation MBPro C2D, and am wondering which driver people >> are using on theirs (with the ATI Mobility X1600 video card). what do >> you recommend? >> >> cheers, >> Nick >> > It depends on what you want to do, if you want to play games, watch > video using compiz the solution is the ati-drivers 8.40.4 with xgl. > If you don't care about 3d or 2d acceleration radeonhd, if you can > tolerate some bugs you can try the newest amd driver, the support > compiz, aiglx but they have some bugs playing films while comipiz is > enabled and so on. > > Obviously IMHO! > > Bye! > > Pietro > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users |
From: Jonas P. <cat...@gm...> - 2008-03-29 17:34:42
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:11 PM, paul s <mac...@qu...> wrote: > i had great success with these cards on f8/kde/compiz/aiglx using the > driver from ati or the kmod from livna... i spent a million hours on my > xorg.xonf before everything worked smoothly, its attached... hope this > helps... > [file snipped] My humble opinion: I can't live without circular scrolling. Below is what I've tuned to work on my 3,1 (pretty sure these settings are unaltered from the 2,2 times): Option "TopEdge" "50" Option "BottomEdge" "300" Option "RightEdge" "1100" Option "LeftEdge" "100" Option "RTCornerButton" "0" Option "LTCornerButton" "0" Option "RBCornerButton" "3" Option "LBCornerButton" "2" Option "CircularScrolling" "1" Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.2" Option "CircScrollTrigger" "3" Option "CircularPad" "0" Note that I prefer to have button 2 and 3 on the LOWER corners - YMMV. Using syndaemon to disable tapping while typing also saves a lot of frustration. Best / Jonas |
From: paul s <mac...@qu...> - 2008-03-30 00:58:54
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yeah no flickering with mplayer as well as with vlc you just have to tell them to use x11 as the output while compiz is running... for mplayer use -vo x11 and vlc its settings --> preferences --> video --> output modules, change it from default to x11... cheers paul Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote: > paul s ha scritto: >> i had great success with these cards on f8/kde/compiz/aiglx using the >> driver from ati or the kmod from livna... i spent a million hours on >> my xorg.xonf before everything worked smoothly, its attached... hope >> this helps... >> >> cheers >> paul > [snip] > > Well, you are telling me that you can watch a video with mplayer or run > blender or any openGL application with compiz running, aiglx and latest > ati driver (8.3) without any "flickering" problem ?? > if so let me say that i LOVE you :D > I don't wanna do the swtch another time but, if you tell me that you can > do what i've explained 3 row before i'll start using it!! > > Cya > > Pietro > > (sorry, i don't know anything about suspend to disk/ram, usually i power > off the pc and then i power on it, there are only few moments of > difference, so for me it's not important) |
From: Nick H. <li...@gm...> - 2008-03-29 18:04:22
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano <mo...@gm...> wrote: > Nick Hoffman ha scritto: > > hey guys. so i've been out of the loop in terms of running GNU/Linux > > on my 2nd generation MBPro C2D, and am wondering which driver people > > are using on theirs (with the ATI Mobility X1600 video card). what do > > you recommend? > > > > cheers, > > Nick > > > > It depends on what you want to do, if you want to play games, watch > video using compiz the solution is the ati-drivers 8.40.4 with xgl. > If you don't care about 3d or 2d acceleration radeonhd, if you can > tolerate some bugs you can try the newest amd driver, the support > compiz, aiglx but they have some bugs playing films while comipiz is > enabled and so on. > > Obviously IMHO! > > Bye! > > Pietro hi Pietro. you have a good point! i don't need any 3D capabilities. the only slightly intensive video stuff that i do is watch movies fullscreen. after that, i need the driver to work properly with suspend-to-RAM and suspend-to-disk. cheers, Nick |
From: Nick H. <li...@gm...> - 2008-03-30 03:10:54
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:58 PM, paul s <mac...@qu...> wrote: > yeah no flickering with mplayer as well as with vlc you just have to > tell them to use x11 as the output while compiz is running... for > mplayer use -vo x11 and vlc its settings --> preferences --> video --> > output modules, change it from default to x11... > > > cheers > paul thanks Paul. other than visual masturbation, what's the point of compiz/beryl? i really don't see its point, but maybe i'm just ignorant... =P -Nick |
From: Pietro \m0nt0\ M. <mo...@gm...> - 2008-03-30 13:06:16
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Nick Hoffman ha scritto: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:58 PM, paul s > <mac...@qu...> wrote: > >> yeah no flickering with mplayer as well as with vlc you just have to >> tell them to use x11 as the output while compiz is running... for >> mplayer use -vo x11 and vlc its settings --> preferences --> video --> >> output modules, change it from default to x11... >> >> >> cheers >> paul >> > > thanks Paul. other than visual masturbation, what's the point of > compiz/beryl? i really don't see its point, but maybe i'm just > ignorant... =P > -Nick Visual masturbation and.... well, it's beautiful and it has some nice features, Why some people love osx rather than win or anything else? Because it's beautiful! Why someone should go from xp to vista? Because it has some nice visual effects... (Beware that i've said SOMEone not ANYone or EVERYone eh!!) Returning in topic, if i have to switch mplayer to x11 vo it means that gl apps still have the flickering problem? Pietro |
From: paul s <mac...@qu...> - 2008-03-30 20:04:59
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> Returning in topic, if i have to switch mplayer to x11 vo it means > that gl apps still have the flickering problem? yes they still will... as a for instance, the opengl screensavers will still flicker... never found the solution for that... also i don't play video games on the computer, so i did not run into any problems with the flickering anywhere else once i fixed the video out... cheers paul Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote: > Nick Hoffman ha scritto: >> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:58 PM, paul s >> <mac...@qu...> wrote: >> >>> yeah no flickering with mplayer as well as with vlc you just have to >>> tell them to use x11 as the output while compiz is running... for >>> mplayer use -vo x11 and vlc its settings --> preferences --> video --> >>> output modules, change it from default to x11... >>> >>> >>> cheers >>> paul >>> >> thanks Paul. other than visual masturbation, what's the point of >> compiz/beryl? i really don't see its point, but maybe i'm just >> ignorant... =P >> -Nick > Visual masturbation and.... well, it's beautiful and it has some nice > features, Why some people love osx rather than win or anything else? > Because it's beautiful! Why someone should go from xp to vista? Because > it has some nice visual effects... (Beware that i've said SOMEone not > ANYone or EVERYone eh!!) > Returning in topic, if i have to switch mplayer to x11 vo it means that > gl apps still have the flickering problem? > > Pietro > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users |
From: paul s <mac...@qu...> - 2008-03-30 20:08:24
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yes that is all that it is good for, it makes working fun again...plus, i have more friends now... use whatever yo... cheers paul Nick Hoffman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:58 PM, paul s > <mac...@qu...> wrote: >> yeah no flickering with mplayer as well as with vlc you just have to >> tell them to use x11 as the output while compiz is running... for >> mplayer use -vo x11 and vlc its settings --> preferences --> video --> >> output modules, change it from default to x11... >> >> >> cheers >> paul > > thanks Paul. other than visual masturbation, what's the point of > compiz/beryl? i really don't see its point, but maybe i'm just > ignorant... =P > -Nick |
From: Sven A. <an...@an...> - 2008-04-11 07:43:33
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Ludovic Rousseau schrieb: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Nick Hoffman <li...@gm...> wrote: >> hey guys. so i've been out of the loop in terms of running GNU/Linux >> on my 2nd generation MBPro C2D, and am wondering which driver people >> are using on theirs (with the ATI Mobility X1600 video card). what do >> you recommend? > > The radeonhd free software driver. > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd Hello! Yesterday evening I tried the newest RadonHD driver (1.2). I tried the radeonhd driver for the first time, but I got distortions ('random' horizontal lines), which make it unusable. Any special options to set? Maybe somebody can post a running xorg.conf for reference? Regards Sven -- Sven Anders <an...@an...> () Ascii Ribbon Campaign /\ Support plain text e-mail ANDURAS service solutions AG Innstraße 71 - 94036 Passau - Germany Web: www.anduras.de - Tel: +49 (0)851-4 90 50-0 - Fax: +49 (0)851-4 90 50-55 Rechtsform: Aktiengesellschaft - Sitz: Passau - Amtsgericht Passau HRB 6032 Mitglieder des Vorstands: Sven Anders, Marcus Junker Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Thomas Träger |
From: Magnus J. <ma...@it...> - 2008-04-11 08:38:46
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On Friday 11 April 2008 09.43.23 Sven Anders wrote: > Yesterday evening I tried the newest RadonHD driver (1.2). I tried the radeonhd > driver for the first time, but I got distortions ('random' horizontal lines), which > make it unusable. > > Any special options to set? Maybe somebody can post a running xorg.conf for reference? I'm pulling radeonhd from git a couple of times a week and it's working well for me on the ATI Mobility X1600. I haven't bothered with suspend/resume on my MBP, so I can't tell if it works or not. I don't have distortions, and have never had since I started using radeonhd. I don't remember doing anything special to get it to work. My working xorg.conf is attached. Regards, Magnus |