Comment 52 for bug 471872

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spinlock (andrew-d-dixon) wrote :

Hey everyone,

Here's the config. I've also built the .debs for people who don't have the ability to compile the packages themselves but I don't know where I could upload them. Maybe someone with a ppa on launchpad could help us out with this?

@NickA: there really wasn't any additional configuration. I did have to compile a few features in addition to the radeon driver into the kernel (they were modules and I couldn't bake in the radeon driver if they were not baked in as well). Other than that, I simply left off the KMS feature. And, it works great. I'm surprised by how much better the graphics are with the radeon driver compiled into the kernel and I'm tempted to keep rolling custom kernels even after this bug is fixed if baking in the video drivers makes this much of a difference.

FYI - the kernel version is 2.6.32-25.45:

    spinlock@sendack:~$ uname -a
    Linux sendack 2.6.32-25-sendack #45 SMP Tue Nov 9 17:38:15 PST 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

Andy