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  • nbi1
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    Originally posted by nbi1 View Post
    Correct. Once I installed the missing packages it built cleanly. Now to see how it works.
    It doesn't because this Radeon driver expects X server 1.7.4 not the 1.6.5 currently being used. Argh.

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  • nbi1
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    Originally posted by bridgman View Post
    I'm guessing you haven't built a video driver on that system before ?

    Not sure, but I think the syntax error there means you're missing the xorg-dev package (header files etc..).
    Correct. Once I installed the missing packages it built cleanly. Now to see how it works.

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  • bridgman
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    I'm guessing you haven't built a video driver on that system before ?

    Not sure, but I think the syntax error there means you're missing the xorg-dev package (header files etc..).

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  • nbi1
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    Originally posted by bridgman View Post
    Do you have the libtool package ? That's what seems to contain those macros...
    Yup, libtool was needed.

    But now `configure` blows up:

    ./configure: line 11942: syntax error near unexpected token `XINERAMA,'
    ./configure: line 11942: `XORG_DRIVER_CHECK_EXT(XINERAMA, xineramaproto)'

    syntax error? C'mon guys how can this code even be checked in?

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  • bridgman
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    Do you have the libtool package ? That's what seems to contain those macros...

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  • nbi1
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    Originally posted by agd5f View Post
    You need xf86-video-ati from git master for the power management options. 6.12.x doesn't have them.
    Thanks. That man page does include the options.

    Can't build the driver though:

    ./autogen.sh
    autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
    autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
    autoreconf: running: aclocal
    autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
    autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
    autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
    configure.ac:46: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
    If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
    See the Autoconf documentation.
    configure.ac:47: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
    autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

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  • bridgman
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    I'm just saying that a *lot* of work went into the fglrx power management, and that even matching that with the open source drivers is going to take an equal amount of work, it's not something they can just "keep".

    If the radeon man page doesn't mention the power saving options, then either your radeon driver is too old (the options were added in April 2009) or your man page has somehow become out of sync with the driver. Can you check the version/age of your radeon driver ?

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  • agd5f
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    You need xf86-video-ati from git master for the power management options. 6.12.x doesn't have them.

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  • nbi1
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    Originally posted by bridgman View Post
    As a *minimum* you'd like to see the same behaviour as fglrx ? Geez, you don't want much

    User modesetting is fine. Do you have Option "ForceLowPowerMode" "on" and Option "DynamicPM" "on" ? If not, add them to the device section of your xorg.conf.

    Running "man radeon" will give you more info about the options.
    Ok, let me rephrase. The same default behavior for temp and speed control. Whatever fglrx is doing in that context it's doing it right. I don't think it's outlandish to presuppose the OSS driver authors would keep those performance attributes of the proprietary driver that are good. Alles klar?

    The Radeon man page has absolutely nothing about the options you mention. In fact the man page was one of the first places I looked to resolve the speed/temp problem.

    I've just about had it with ATI. The driver nonsense just never ends. Two GTX 260s in SLI is starting to look pretty good.

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  • bridgman
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    As a *minimum* you'd like to see the same behaviour as fglrx ? Geez, you don't want much

    User modesetting is fine. Do you have Option "ForceLowPowerMode" "on" and Option "DynamicPM" "on" ? If not, add them to the device section of your xorg.conf.

    Running "man radeon" will give you more info about the options.

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