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vgx

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Registered: 2005-08-09

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ati+archck = somewhat rare error message [SOLVED]

After recent update latest ati drivers (ati-fglrx-archck 8.23.7-2) and latest archck(kernel26archck 2.6.15.archck7-4) i have no direct rendering and "(EE) fglrx(0): Hardware already been locked. " in xorg log ... respectively

(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.0
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe17e4000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe17e4000 to 0xb720c000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xd0000000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done
(EE) fglrx(0): Hardware already been locked. 
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe17e4000 at 0xb720c000
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)             *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xd0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1024,8191)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1024,768) (front color buffer - assumption)
(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
(==) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 768)
(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 7419

Chman

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Registered: 2006-01-31

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Re: ati+archck = somewhat rare error message [SOLVED]

I had the same error, you updated ati-fglrx-utils to version 8.24.8, which is incompatible with ati-fglrx-archck (version 8.23.7). You have two possibilities :

- Downgrading ati-fglrx-utils to 8.23.7 (you can find it in my repo, cf signature) is the easiest way.

- Install kernel26beyond and ati-fglrx-beyond (easy too, works great here).

I would go for the second solution, because kernel26archck is is no longer being maintained.

vgx

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Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 35

Re: ati+archck = somewhat rare error message [SOLVED]

I've installed beyond kernel and ati drivers as you advised - direct rendering now works flawlessly. Thanks!