| Sarvatt | wrouesnel: how is radeon broken? do you mean fglrx? need more context there | 06:17 |
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| wrouesnel | Sarvatt: radeon as in the open-source driver | 06:18 |
| Sarvatt | its broken for you? what release, what gpu, when did it start being broken? | 06:19 |
| Sarvatt | hows it broken, corruption or not working at all? | 06:20 |
| wrouesnel | Sarvatt: gpu is a cayman pro [radeon 6950]. the driver was broken on the last update to the xorg-edgers ppa | 06:20 |
| wrouesnel | Sarvatt: it's broken in the sense that the framebuffer driver initializes improperly (corrupted output on DVI) and launching Cinnamon (or any window manager that uses opengl) leads to a mangled display. | 06:21 |
| wrouesnel | changing settings like color tiling doesn't help at all, and (i'm guessing this is the bug report i put on launchpad) i get a lot of that message in ~/.xsession-errors when I try to start a display manager. | 06:22 |
| wrouesnel | launching in 2D mode (i.e. software opengl), things work fine. | 06:22 |
| Sarvatt | well you said that before the last update, there was another not long before you asked, but there haven't been any big changes in a few updates so thats weird. might be kernel update related but i'm not sure which release you're on, 12.10 is the only one that gets big kernel updates | 06:24 |
| wrouesnel | I can confirm that "*ERROR* Invalid register 0x8040 in CS" is fixed by the kernel patch I linked, but I still get total display corruption / improperly working framebuffer drivers. | 06:24 |
| Sarvatt | ah so might be mesa related, gotcha | 06:24 |
| wrouesnel | also I was running the kernel from the ppa | 06:24 |
| wrouesnel | 3.7.0.7-15 I believe (I since downgraded everything from the ppa so I could have a usable system again). | 06:25 |
| Sarvatt | 3.8 will be in there very soon which should have any patch you might have linked in it | 06:25 |
| Sarvatt | best to stick with quantal kernels in the meantime | 06:26 |
| wrouesnel | yeah my own digging seemed to indicate that there's been a lot of development to radeon/drm that's slated for 3.8 | 06:26 |
| Sarvatt | sorry about the trouble :( | 06:26 |
| wrouesnel | it's fine. I wouldn't run it if I wasn't looking for the learning exercise | 06:27 |
| wrouesnel | what i did discover is that apt hates downgrades, but is very happy to "upgrade" to a lower versioned number, which was how I eventually purged the ppa without apt trying to uninstall my entire system. | 06:28 |
| Sarvatt | http://people.canonical.com/~apw/3.8-rc2-raring/ is whats going in as soon as blobs get updated to work with it | 06:28 |
| Sarvatt | apt tried to screw you over even with xorg-edgers ppa-purge version? i uploaded one there that should be ok | 06:29 |
| Sarvatt | ppa-purge 0.2.8+bzr57+edgers1~quantal actually works here | 06:30 |
| wrouesnel | hm I may have missed that one. anyway, just pinning the quantal repos to highest priority worked perfectly for me. | 06:30 |
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