Fglrx 8.6 or 8.7 doesn't work with Intel AGP at all

[israel_miranda]

nb1, I don't think you'll be able to install radeonhd driver without installing some packages from testing or backports.
Enable the testing repositories and configure pinning to not update your whole system.

Here goes a /etc/apt/preferences file that I use in a server which runs qemulator(only available in testing)

Package: qemu
Pin: release a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: bochsbios
Pin: release a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: qemulator
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: libgtk2-ruby
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: libgtk2-ruby1.8
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=etch
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

package: *
Pin: origin ftp.debian-unofficial.org
Pin-Priority: 550

Package: *
Pin: origin www.debian-multimedia.org
Pin-Priority: 550


Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=oldstable
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=sarge
Pin-Priority: 500


Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: -1

Requires some manual work at first but later works fine.

Or you might consider using 64bits lenny(if your cpu supports it). It has already entered the frozen state. Its release is expected this year, so it's with a good stability already.

[Kano]

Well when you compile the drivers with etch pbuilder they work - just without 3d - precompiled for 32 bit here - if you don't use Kanotix:

http://kanotix.com/files/thorhammer/...ideo-radeonhd/

Works with etch, or if you want to know how I modified the sid sources:

http://kanotix.com/files/fix-xserver...ideo-rad-hd.sh

[nbi1]

Well when you compile the drivers with etch pbuilder they work - just without 3d - precompiled for 32 bit here - if you don't use Kanotix:

http://kanotix.com/files/thorhammer/...ideo-radeonhd/

Works with etch, or if you want to know how I modified the sid sources:

http://kanotix.com/files/fix-xserver...ideo-rad-hd.sh

Great, I'll give that a try. I'm trying to avoid doing a whole hog switch to lenny as that would require lots of other work.
Many thanks.

[nbi1]

No, HIS. The radeon notes I discovered previously didn't cover it. I'll give that link a try. Many thanks.

Wow. Kano's .deb did the trick! Very impressive. Kano you're my hero!

Now why can't ATI provide something like this?

Now there are only 3 (EE) in my X log:
(EE) RADEONHD(0): TMDSAVoltageControl: unhandled chipset: 0x9515.
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
(EE) Error loading keymap /var/lib/xkb/server-0.xkm

They don't appear in that order and don't seem to be significant. Not sure if the refresh rate is really 75hz, but the display looks fabulous even at 60hz on the Acer P243W.

More than usable in its present configuration.
Many thanks!

[nbi1]

How do I generate a modeline for the radeonhd configuration?

I have used Xvidtune in the past, but for this configuration it doesn't allow optimal refresh rate tweaking. I know my monitor (Acer P243W) can do 1920x1200 @75hz, but Xvidtune won't allow me to go higher than 61hz.

Another observation, the radeonhd driver doesn't show up in the driver list generated by 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. This means for reconfiguration of anything X I have to choose a dummy video driver and then manually update xorg.conf with "radeonhd". Don't know what adverse impacts this may have.

[legume]

How do I generate a modeline for the radeonhd configuration?

I have used Xvidtune in the past, but for this configuration it doesn't allow optimal refresh rate tweaking. I know my monitor (Acer P243W) can do 1920x1200 @75hz, but Xvidtune won't allow me to go higher than 61hz.

What does grep Ranges /var/log/Xorg.0.log say?

[Kano]

@nbi1

60 hz is fully correct for a TFT. You would never see a diff between 60 and 75 anyway because TFTs are much slower. Use DVI and the signal should be really sharp.