On 04/02/2008, William John Murray <W.J.Murray@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hello. Has anyone been successful in getting fglrx to work at > > 1400x1050? I have a lenovo t60, and I can only get 1400x1050 with the > > vesa driver. fglrx will only do 1280x1024 regardless of what the > > Modes > > line in xorg.conf says... > > Yes!! > It has been broken for a while, but livna have the 8.1 fglrx driver > rpms out today, and 1400x1050 is back, at least on Dell. There is a note > in ATI/AMD's release notes to the effect it is a fixed bug. > > There are still no desktop effects. Does anyone know about that? > If I type: > compiz-manager > I get: > Checking for Xgl: not present. > No whitelisted driver found > aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity > Odd - I expected aiglx. I change compiz-manager to whitelist "fglrx", > but get: > > Checking for Xgl: not present. > Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:7183 (prog-if 00 [VGA > controller]) > Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present. > Trying again with indirect rendering: > Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present. > aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity > > Which is strange, because: > glxinfo | grep pixma > GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, > GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, > GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap > > Any ideas anyone? > I am getting pretty much the same thing too. The 3d drivers seem to work - Googleearth is really swift - but no effects at all. JDL
