I used a HD3850 card a while back with fglrx and I still remember what a nightmare it was to set it up correctly. However, I have since moved on to the free radeon driver, which proved to be of much better quality.
Unfortunately, now I'm back to square one: my new HD6950 isn't supported by the free driver yet, so after two years of happiness I find myself fighting fglrx again. I have dual-monitor setup, and both monitors (for irrelevant reasons) need custom modelines. The modelines worked well with the older fglrx version that I used 2 years ago, and they kept working well with the free driver. However, any attempt to use any of the modelines with the current (11.2) fglrx driver results in either or both:
- horrible screen corruption+crash on start up
- hard lock on X restart
The corruption occurs when using the following modeline for my DFP:
ModeLine "1600x1200R" 130.2 1600 1648 1680 1760 1200 1203 1207 1235 +hsync -vsync
Just declaring this modeline is fine, but as soon as I make it a "PreferredMode", I get garbage on the screen as soon as X starts up and immediate crash.
The other modeline for my CRT is:
ModeLine "1600x1200@76" 208.7 1600 1720 1896 2192 1200 1201 1204 1253 -hsync +vsync
Starting X with this set as PreferredMode results in the monitor not lighting up (but the other monitor works). Any attempt to restart X results in hard lockup.
The old fglrx config that used to work with the same monitors and modelines 2 years ago: http://paste2.org/p/1306568
The fglrx config that I'm trying now (I used aticonfig to create a working initial file and then added the options from the old file): http://paste2.org/p/1306575
So, am I doing anything wrong, or has fglrx badly regressed with basic things like modesetting?
Unfortunately, now I'm back to square one: my new HD6950 isn't supported by the free driver yet, so after two years of happiness I find myself fighting fglrx again. I have dual-monitor setup, and both monitors (for irrelevant reasons) need custom modelines. The modelines worked well with the older fglrx version that I used 2 years ago, and they kept working well with the free driver. However, any attempt to use any of the modelines with the current (11.2) fglrx driver results in either or both:
- horrible screen corruption+crash on start up
- hard lock on X restart
The corruption occurs when using the following modeline for my DFP:
ModeLine "1600x1200R" 130.2 1600 1648 1680 1760 1200 1203 1207 1235 +hsync -vsync
Just declaring this modeline is fine, but as soon as I make it a "PreferredMode", I get garbage on the screen as soon as X starts up and immediate crash.
The other modeline for my CRT is:
ModeLine "1600x1200@76" 208.7 1600 1720 1896 2192 1200 1201 1204 1253 -hsync +vsync
Starting X with this set as PreferredMode results in the monitor not lighting up (but the other monitor works). Any attempt to restart X results in hard lockup.
The old fglrx config that used to work with the same monitors and modelines 2 years ago: http://paste2.org/p/1306568
The fglrx config that I'm trying now (I used aticonfig to create a working initial file and then added the options from the old file): http://paste2.org/p/1306575
So, am I doing anything wrong, or has fglrx badly regressed with basic things like modesetting?
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