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Thread ID: 121898	2011-11-20 17:29:00	Blocky movement - gl screensavers (Linux)	Myth (110)	Press F1

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1244450	2011-11-20 17:29:00	I recently ditched archlinux in favour of Debian (testing). Was a breeze to setup, but have just one issue - the gl screensavers have a rather blocky movement From this, I assume that the "screen" is not configured correctly or it is using the wrong device driver, but I am unsure how to change this. First - lspci reports my device as such: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4250] - this is an onboard graphics card So I assume from what I have read, that I can use either radeon/radeonhd/ati drivers Now: apparently xorg.conf is depreciated in favour of evdev. How do I find what driver evdev is using? How do I configure the screen modes of evdev?	Myth (110)
1244451	2011-11-20 21:42:00	I've never used ATI gear so don't now much about the state of the free drivers, although I have heard it has been a bit of a mess over the last few years (one reason I have avoided them). The ATI page at the debian wiki is at wiki.debian.org although it looks a bit old. Have you tried xrandr to adjust settings? edit: I think grandr is a gui front-end for it. Again, something I have not used much as it is not very useful with nvidia drivers. You can still use xorg.conf to configure things if evdev is not co-operating. I've got a couple of conf files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to set some options on my nvidia card and to make my trackpad a lot more useful. /var/log/Xorg.0.log should give a lot of info on what is going on. This seems to be a recent answer: The newest driver for ATI-cards is already in the repositories. Add the contrib and non-free sections to your sources list, then do this: Code: apt-get update apt-get install fglrx-control aticonfig --initial Then reboot. Works on my laptop every time.	fred_fish (15241)
1244452	2011-11-21 04:24:00	NOTE: This will not work on wheezy/testing or sid until fglrx/Catalyst supports Xserver 1.11.x, which won't be until the Catalyst 11-11 release. Currently Catalyst is at version 11.9; so I guess I gotta sit pretty for a while	Myth (110)
1244453	2011-11-21 05:23:00	packages.debian.org Looks like it is in sid already if you want to pull it (and dependencies) from there. edit: or just upgrade to Sid entirely, I've always had less hassles than running testing (just install apt-listbugs and pay attention to the output when updating :) ) Breakages are fixed a lot faster without waiting for the timeout to migrate packages down to testing.	fred_fish (15241)
1244454	2011-11-21 06:34:00	packages.debian.org Looks like it is in sid already if you want to pull it (and dependencies) from there. edit: or just upgrade to Sid entirely, I've always had less hassles than running testing (just install apt-listbugs and pay attention to the output when updating :) ) Breakages are fixed a lot faster without waiting for the timeout to migrate packages down to testing.Yeah thanks for the thought, but I will stick with testing If I wanted to go cutting edge, I'd go back to Gentoo	Myth (110)
1244455	2011-11-21 06:58:00	Well there's only 10 days difference between testing and sid (excepting dependency and arch issues). FWIW I've always found testing very frustrating, waiting for things to get fixed. I put stable on machines that need to work, as it does exactly what it says on the tin. As an aside, how did you find Arch?	fred_fish (15241)
1244456	2011-11-21 07:11:00	Problematic ... I only used it for a few months; and got sick of it causing issues. I wasn't aware of the time period between sid and wheezy so thank you for that info.... but I can wait :)	Myth (110)
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