Well. Are you sure the kernel module fglrx is ACTUALLY installed and loaded? I got a slow-ass-slideshow desktop when i installed the driver and the module wasnt installed. X WILL start without the fglrx module if the rest of the driver is installed, but you will get a slideshow.
fglrx:
The best way to make absolutely sure its installed, just install from the script directly without generating the .deb files. I installed it many times like that both fglrx and nvidia on Debian and Ubuntu and it worked every time (and if i got an error, it always was about the kernel module not being built for some reason).
The OSS radeon driver:
This is a tougher nut to crack. You need an up to date kernel, drm, mesa, glamor, xf86-ati, llvm+clang. I build all of these from git with some simple scripts and make deb packages which i install over the distribution's packages, transferring ownership of the libraries from the systems old packages over to my own packages to prevent the system packages interfering in ccase of update (done via the "replaces" mechanism of the apt system).
Now, having a 64 bit system i have to do build both 32 and 64 bit versions of these packages because 32 bit applications (for example all Steam games) use ONLY 32 bit graphic libraries.
All this works with a single command now, but getting both 32 and 64 bit devel libraries to install was a PITA and i installed the 64 bit ones and quite unelegantly pure and simple uncompressed the 32 bit versions since they couldnt be installed side by side because both arches contained the same include files. Very messy.
But after these hardships, i have a pure vanilla OSS graphics stack which works wonderfully (granted i have a r600-using 7560D IGP on A8-5500 APU).
You NEED to use glamor acceleration for your card. Make sure you have glamor installed and xorg.conf set up properly.
If you use Ubuntu, you might try PPAs with latest stuff in them, but you still have to make sure xorg.conf is set up.
Video playback colors:
Set VLC to use OpenGL for display. XV on glamor sometimes gives colors like that (i didnt see that on fglrx).
fglrx:
The best way to make absolutely sure its installed, just install from the script directly without generating the .deb files. I installed it many times like that both fglrx and nvidia on Debian and Ubuntu and it worked every time (and if i got an error, it always was about the kernel module not being built for some reason).
The OSS radeon driver:
This is a tougher nut to crack. You need an up to date kernel, drm, mesa, glamor, xf86-ati, llvm+clang. I build all of these from git with some simple scripts and make deb packages which i install over the distribution's packages, transferring ownership of the libraries from the systems old packages over to my own packages to prevent the system packages interfering in ccase of update (done via the "replaces" mechanism of the apt system).
Now, having a 64 bit system i have to do build both 32 and 64 bit versions of these packages because 32 bit applications (for example all Steam games) use ONLY 32 bit graphic libraries.
All this works with a single command now, but getting both 32 and 64 bit devel libraries to install was a PITA and i installed the 64 bit ones and quite unelegantly pure and simple uncompressed the 32 bit versions since they couldnt be installed side by side because both arches contained the same include files. Very messy.
But after these hardships, i have a pure vanilla OSS graphics stack which works wonderfully (granted i have a r600-using 7560D IGP on A8-5500 APU).
You NEED to use glamor acceleration for your card. Make sure you have glamor installed and xorg.conf set up properly.
Code:
Section "Module" Load "dri2" Load "glamoregl" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "radeon" Driver "radeon" Option "AccelMethod" "glamor" EndSection
If you use Ubuntu, you might try PPAs with latest stuff in them, but you still have to make sure xorg.conf is set up.
Video playback colors:
Set VLC to use OpenGL for display. XV on glamor sometimes gives colors like that (i didnt see that on fglrx).
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