Driver for x.org on ATI Radeon Mobility card

bgreg · 10-15-2005, 08:12 AM

I have a Compaq Presario 2500 laptop with an ATI Radeon 345M video card. It used to work perfectly with XFree86 with the radeon driver; recently when I upgraded to x.org it is either *very* slow (if used without radeonfb) or, if configured with radeonfb, it freezes the whole OS (Debian testing). I tried a number of different drivers for Ati cards, but the same happens with all. Does anybody have any suggestions what driver I should use and how I should configure xorg.conf?

Any suggestions would be welcome.

pippo · 10-15-2005, 12:12 PM

I have had the same problem.

I found the solution here

http://www.linux-laptop.net/hosted/r4000-gentoo.html

I was surprised since I had been playing a lot with ati drivers without anysuccess. But with the one I found in this page, it worked instantly.

bgreg · 10-15-2005, 12:50 PM

I've tried the i386 version of the fglrx driver, but it does the same thing. Since XFree86's radeon driver worked perfectly before the migration to x.org, is this something I sould report to x.org?