But yesterday I installed some xorg7 packages from testing :oops: ...x wouldn't start at all (complaining that there was no fglrx module). I downgraded to 6.8.2 but there are some xorg7 packages still lying around (i tried pacman -Rc <packages in question> but that meant deleting half of the other packages as well). :oops: My guess is that they are causing all of this.
]]>Moreover the X log file is trying to convince me that I have direct rendering:
bash-3.00# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Direct
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
whereas running
bash-3.00# glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
claims the opposite :shock:
10x in advance
(btw. kernel 2.6.14archck4-1, xorg 11R6.8.2)
EDIT: After a reboot even glxinfo thinks that DRI is enabled, which is obviously not the case (foobillard is running real slooooooow) ... strange things are going on...
]]>Do an 'lsmod' command from the command line. You should see 3 entries something similar to above (fglrx, along with two agp entries - your agp entries may have a different name). If you don't see the fglrx module listed then it didn't load. Run 'dmesg' command or take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to learn why.
]]>I use the MODULES array in rc.conf for this, since it lets me control the module load order. I use the radeon module included with kernel26, so here are my relevant module entries, in order:
rc.conf:
MODULES=(agpgart nvidia-agp radeon)
If the load order is correct, you should see something like this in dmesg:
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.17.0 20050311 on minor 0:
pacman -R mesa
Then, for more information as to why it failed, you can check your Xorg log:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Direct
or
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx
i have a problem with the ati driver 8.20.8.
i have installed it from the community tree.
pacman -S ati-drivers
it installed a kernel *ck and the ati driver.
after that i do a
fglrxconfig
my xorg.conf ist correct. fglrx is enterd at driver and the dri section is availabil.
3D isnt availabil, look at this screenshot.
you can see that the mesa driver is loaded.
whats wrong ?
thanks for you help!
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