ichase Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Ian, have you not tried the Catalyst driver?Sue, I have not attempted the catalyst driver because my card is not supported by it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Have you tried changing xorg.conf to Driver "radeon" ? Back up your current one so you can change it back from a terminal login in case X doesn't start at all. It looks like the radeon module is loaded but not being used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Sue, I have not attempted the catalyst driver because my card is not supported by it.No, I know but what have you got to lose by trying? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) Ok, making progress. I now have MUCH better graphics resolution now. Here is what I did. I moved my xorg.conf file to /etc/backups/xorg.conf.bk and then started X. I have read that the xorg.conf is not needed and will sometimes cause problems.This is one of the things I love about Arch. I like the way it goes right into CLI hense the reason why I have not setup my .xinitrc to autostart E17. I like to just type startx in case I need to take care of anything before going in. :thumbup:I had in fact sunrat, manually changed VESA to Radeon with no success. So now all is well and it looks like I can keep Arch on my lappy. add happy dance emoticon here. :)Now the only thing I am still trying to figure out is why conky (which now loads automagically) is not transparent. I have it set that way.Here is a screen shot of my current Arch E17 to show you what I mean. It's black?Not sure if this is a quick fix or not. If I need to add my .conkyrc, let me know.All the best and THANK YOU so much for all of your help, especially Josh who has had the patience of jobe with me. :)Ian Edited March 16, 2011 by ichase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Looks great!!! The ~/.xinitrc does not autostart your window manager but is the file to choose which window manager you want to launch when you type startx. Now you can autostart apps using .xinitrc but it will not autostart the window manager.As far as transparent conky, do you have this in your .conkyrc: background yesown_window yesown_window_type normalown_window_transparent yesown_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) Josh,Only differerence is, mine says: own_window_type desktop As far as autostarting, I like it just the way it is. If you have to configure anything prior to going into you WM or DE, you just log in a go to work. typing "startx" is really not that inconvenient. :)Ian Edited March 16, 2011 by ichase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 That is what I am saying, the .xinitrc is the configuration file for startx. When you type startx it reads your .xinitrc file for its configuration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) That is what I am saying, the .xinitrc is the configuration file for startx. When you type startx it reads your .xinitrc file for its configuration.I got that, I also know from reading that you can right a script that when you boot the lappy it will automagically enter your WM or DE. I think you have to have a login manager installed though About to change own_window_type to normal instead of window. See if that makes a diff. :)All the best,IanEdit: Did not change anything at all. :hmm:Also2339 Frames in 5.0 seconds = 467.217 FPS is MUCH better. Edited March 16, 2011 by ichase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Ok, making progress. I now have MUCH better graphics resolution now. IanYay!!! Dontcha just love those Ah-hah! moments, even the small ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Yay!!! Dontcha just love those Ah-hah! moments, even the small ones? Love them Sue, the more I learn about Linux the more I wish I would have gone down this road YEARS ago. ;)All the best,Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 ...the more I learn about Linux the more I wish I would have gone down this road YEARS ago. Ditto! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Very nice Ian, sounds like you have it working now!!!As far as autostarting the WM/DE, you can do this but it requires a login manager and is not configured via ~/.xinitrc but the LM's /etc/ config file. ~/.xinitrc is only for starting a wm/de via startx and autostarting apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 (edited) Very nice Ian, sounds like you have it working now!!!As far as autostarting the WM/DE, you can do this but it requires a login manager and is not configured via ~/.xinitrc but the LM's /etc/ config file. ~/.xinitrc is only for starting a wm/de via startx and autostarting apps.Don't think I am going to autostart. I like being brought into CLI upon boot. Alows me more options for configuring prior to entering the WM. IanEdit: Also, I guess you can mark this post as "SOLVED" Edited March 17, 2011 by ichase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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