From kde  Tue Jan 06 20:04:04 2009
From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson () googlemail ! com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:04:04 +0000
To: kde
Subject: Re: [kde] Question about KDE 4.2
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On Monday 05 January 2009 22:28:12 Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.
>
I've been running now for more than 8 hours, using "Option      "AccelMetho=
d"=20
"EXA"Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA" " and I haven't had a single freeze.  =
I'm=20
keeping fingers crossed, but so far it's looking good :-)

Thanks for the tip.  Now I wonder where, on userbase, I should put that? =20
Under 'troubleshooting' I guess.

Anne

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