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#1 2011-01-19 15:08:13

shak
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Can't run x

Hi there

I've installed arch x84_64 on my ati based notebook . I've installed catalyst and catalyst-utils from aur but when i try to run startx to get in xfce4

i get the message

(WW) No device section found for instance (PCI something i can't remember)

When i check the xorg.conf file everything seems fine in the Device section . The driver is set to fglrx and i have the fglrx at the modules array .

What is wrong ?

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#2 2011-01-19 15:15:38

ilusi0n
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Re: Can't run x

Did you add 'nomodeset' in the kernel line?

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#3 2011-01-19 15:17:23

shak
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Re: Can't run x

No i haven't . Should i add it and how ?

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#4 2011-01-19 15:18:12

FarmerF
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Re: Can't run x

run lspci (pciutils package) and check the output for your card. See if the "PCI something" part corresponds with the output of your card. I had a similar problem with an ATI card that had two vga outputs.

Change the busid in xorg.conf if they do not match

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#5 2011-01-19 15:23:36

ilusi0n
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Re: Can't run x

shak wrote:

No i haven't . Should i add it and how ?

Yes, you should.

edit the kernel line, with your prefered editor, that is on

/boot/grub/menu.lst

And in the kernel line that will be similiar with this

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro

just add in the end nomodeset and reboot

Is all explained on the wiki related to catalyst here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … t#kernel26

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#6 2011-01-19 15:31:23

shak
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Re: Can't run x

The nomodeset doesn't work . I've tried it and i'm getting the same mesage]

Btw the bus in the config file is set to PCI : 1:0:0

With the lspci command i'm not getting a similar pci message to compare them .

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#7 2011-01-19 15:35:43

ilusi0n
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Re: Can't run x

Hum, one more question. Which comand you run when you went to configure your xorg? Did you configure xorg like is explained in the link above I gave you?

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#8 2011-01-19 15:37:07

shak
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Re: Can't run x

Yes i did aticonfig --initial

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#9 2011-01-19 15:46:49

ilusi0n
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Re: Can't run x

As sudo or root?

edit: post your xorg.conf as well and the output of lscpi please.

Last edited by ilusi0n (2011-01-19 15:48:28)

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#10 2011-01-19 16:16:41

Dastingo
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Re: Can't run x

You can try to install the driver from the catalyst repository, i did that and it woks fine for me.

Add this to /etc/pacman.conf:

[catalyst]
Server = [url]http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo/catalyst/x86_64[/url]

Then

sudo pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils
sudo aticonfig --initial

add "fglrx" to the MODULES in /etc/rc.conf
add "nomodeset" to the kernel entry in grub

I don't know why but the driver in the repo is only 17mb and works perfectly but the one from AUR is 100mb+.
I haven't tried the AUR driver myself so I cannot comment on that.

Last edited by Dastingo (2011-01-19 16:41:05)

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#11 2011-01-19 18:26:58

ilusi0n
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Re: Can't run x

Dastingo wrote:

I don't know why but the driver in the repo is only 17mb and works perfectly but the one from AUR is 100mb+.

I guess that's because in repo the package is already compiled and in AUR you need to download the source and compile with makepkg which will create the package to install with pacman (which is the package that is in repo) smile

Last edited by ilusi0n (2011-01-19 18:27:35)

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#12 2011-01-19 19:15:57

FarmerF
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Re: Can't run x

lspci | grep  "ATI\|VGA"

should give you more specific results. Post the output of

lspci

here if it still doesn't make sense

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