I have one of this 780g chipset htpc with ubuntu running on it. the issue I faced with latest ati driver was that resolution of the system used to go to 1080p every time I rebooted my machine. My computer is connected to a 720p TV so this made the reading of content a tad too difficult from the sofa. So I searched on the net for some time and found this awesome thread which saved my eyes the pain of squeaking...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1226887
To summarise, you need to do the following...
Click System --> Perference --> Display... click "NO" ... now change the resolution to what you would like in my case 720p and that's it you are all set...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
At last desktop effects on my asus m51ta-x2... yoo... hoo....
Seems the latest git for ati open source driver has the dri (direct rendering infrastructure) working. So, after installing the drivers from the source I was able to enabled desktop effects in my kde4. Yup sweetness of success atlast... so here are the steps to enable it...
Open your favorite command line too (konsole, terminal, xterm etc)
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git-core
sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev x11proto-gl-dev mesa-common-dev xutils-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev x11proto-render-dev xserver-xorg-dev
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
cd xf86-video-ati
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-dri
make
sudo make install
Now reboot your computer. I thought restarting kdm should have worked, but it seems the driver files are not getting loaded.
Open your system settings and go to desktop effects. Click enable, but before you press apply go to advanced and change the rendering to xrenderer. Now click apply and there you go.. linux eye kandy the way you want :-D....
some changes are done from the steps given here. All credit goes to the post in the link and to open source ati developers... hats off to you guys...
Open your favorite command line too (konsole, terminal, xterm etc)
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git-core
sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev x11proto-gl-dev mesa-common-dev xutils-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev x11proto-render-dev xserver-xorg-dev
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
cd xf86-video-ati
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-dri
make
sudo make install
Now reboot your computer. I thought restarting kdm should have worked, but it seems the driver files are not getting loaded.
Open your system settings and go to desktop effects. Click enable, but before you press apply go to advanced and change the rendering to xrenderer. Now click apply and there you go.. linux eye kandy the way you want :-D....
some changes are done from the steps given here. All credit goes to the post in the link and to open source ati developers... hats off to you guys...
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