Question about KDE 4.2

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 5 22:28:12 GMT 2009


On Monday 05 January 2009 21:56:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 05 January 2009 19:48:39 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm using the free ATi driver and cannot use Desktop Effects without
> >>> random freezes.  How is this EXA enabled?
> >>
> >> Section "Device"
> >>    Option      "UseAtomBIOS" "true"
> >>    Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> >>    # ...
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> This works with both the radeon as well as the radeonhd driver but only
> >> with cards up to an X1950.  HD2xxx and above aren't supported yet.
> >
> > So the X600 should be OK.  Does that "UseAtomBIOS" apply to all these
> > older cards?
>
> Not sure.  You can grep -i atom your Xorg.0.log and check if it applies
> for you.
>
I don't see it in there, so I'll comment that out.  I've re-started X and 
everything looks fine.  In the morning I'll test it with Desktop Effects.  
I'll report back.

Anne

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