Xorg on Thinkpad W500 and Jaunty

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Mark and Michael,

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:46, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 May 2009 08:33:11 Michael Hirsch wrote:
>> I upgraded my w500 from Intrepid to Jaunty today.  The W500 has an
>> ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650 graphics card.
>>
>> (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
>> (II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0
>> (II) fglrx(0): Enable the clock gating!
>> (II) fglrx(0): Restoring recent mode: 1024x768 at 75Hz
>>
>> I think that is where my mode is getting set, and I can't find a way
>> to make another mode be used by default.
>
> I had similar problems - different machine but the symptoms look the same.
>
> Try editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and adding:
>
> Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
>
> into the "Monitor" section.

Wow, and you can actually run X with the current fglrx driver?

I have exactly the same laptop and fglrx never worked here in Jaunty.
Every time I tried to start X it froze the whole machine ( and really
frozen, only hard booting possible after it)  if I wasn't fast enough
to switch to tty1 on start.
I chose to use the free radeon driver instead, which of course also
means a limited set of desktop effects with XRender, as OpenGL simply
refuses to work without freezing the X session. Reproducible every
time.

I have found very few reports of people actually running OpenGL with
this card, but far too poor information is available on how to
actually tweak the system to make it work again as in Intrepid... so
some detailed information on which exact xorg.conf settings needed
would be very welcome!


Regards, Myriam.

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