radeon and gnome-shell don't work

[doskey]

Hi,

I have a laptop with a switchable ATI Radeon 57xx (meaning it can switch to the intel HD one), and have not been able to get the open source drivers to work with gnome-shell. This is my first radeon driver (till now I had nvidia's) so I don't know the drivers well.

Because of the switchable graphics I disable the switching, and set the BusID in xorg.conf.
I also set the driver to be the radeon driver. glxgears runs decently in an X instance. When I run gnome-shell --replace from the command line in an X server I get an error from clutter with the following message:
Unable to select the newly created GLX context

My other options are:
* Using fglrx - Is this supposed to work on F15 yet? I couldn't get it to work and din't know if it was something I did
* Using the Intel card - I need to get the vga_switcharoo thing working, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be compiled into F15 even though I believe it was in F14.

Thanks for any help!

[Fenrin]

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My other options are:
* Using fglrx - Is this supposed to work on F15 yet? I couldn't get it to work and din't know if it was something I did
* Using the Intel card - I need to get the vga_switcharoo thing working, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be compiled into F15 even though I believe it was in F14.

Thanks for any help!

hello,

fglrx does not work under F15 yet. Current proprietary ATI/AMD drivers are not compatible to the new xorg version which F15 uses. Catalyst 11.4 which will come somewhen later this month will also not support the new xorg version.

Maybe settings in the BIOS could help if switcheroo doesn't work.

Ussually radeon drivers should work fine with Gnome shell. Both Radeon 3200 and Radeon 4650 works fine for me.

[doskey]

Maybe settings in the BIOS could help if switcheroo doesn't work.

I can set in the bios whether it will be a dual Intel/Radeon or just a Radeon.
I wouldn't mind using the intel card for now, and in dual mode intel is used by X. Only problem is that the radeon makes problems with the modesetting.
I just now found out about radeon.modeset=0 and will try it tomorrow.


Ussually radeon drivers should work fine with Gnome shell. Both Radeon 3200 and Radeon 4650 works fine for me.

My guess is that for some reason I am getting llvmpipe as my gallium3d renderer instead of R600g.
I couldn't really find info about this, but I does fedora 15 even ship so far with R600g? what is its status?
I believe support for HD5xxx in R600g is relatively new (a bit more then half a year?), and I am not sure what it's status is.

[datahal42]

try this : http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Radeon http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Radeon http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd%3Afeature and ..... https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units

from the open source driver i prefer rebuild the last stable version.