Still have problems with ATI

alcazoid · 2006-09-28 16:37:22

I have an ATI Radeon 8500 card. Everything was good, when I left my home at the beginning of summer, but after coming back at September i decided to update my system
After doing `pacman -Syu` fglrx stopped working, Xorg started to freeze when i was trying to start any application - nothing in logs. I had lots of headache with it but finally I read that ATI excluded support for r2xx cards from fglrx. I tried to use ati driver from Xorg, but it's not working - resolution is terrible and it doesn't react on Modelines! Earlier versions of fglrx drivers weren't working too(after update, they WERE working before), so i spent couple of days in Windows and then tried to boot in Linux again. I was amazed that fglrx driver started to work, but without hardware acceleration And I also figured out that ati driver from Xorg will work with correct resolution only after starting Xorg with fglrx, changing xorg.conf, and restarting Xorg - but you can do it only one time, so if you are using 'ati' driver, that works correctly, and will try to restart Xorg - it won't be working in a correct way.
I was trying different versions of fglrx driver, I was trying to use older versions(that were working before!), I was trying to put libGL.so from earlier versions of package and renaming libGL.so.radeon to libGL.so from 8.27 package of fglrx - no luck.
I'm so angry about this - because it makes me to work in Windows environment and I miss my linux box very much, and I tried lots of things - nothing helps. I really pissed off...
You are my only hope. Please help me!

alcazoid · 2006-09-28 17:10:43

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Cerebral · 2006-09-28 22:57:33

Okay, first off, if you're constantly changing the version of the fglrx packages, you must

1) Quit X
2) run sudo rmmod fglrx
3) Change package version
4) run sudo modprobe fglrx
5) restart X

for a clean change.

For the xf86-video-ati drivers, you need to:
1) Remove ati-fglrx and ati-fglrx-utils (sudo rmmod fglrx too, if it's modprobe'd)
2) Install libgl-dri and xf86-video-ati
3) Change your xorg.conf.
4) modprobe radeon
5) Start X

alcazoid · 2006-09-29 19:54:23

I tried to do what you said.
After removing fglrx and loading radeon module everything was fine, but after i quit Xorg and started it again - resolution is not right again and i don't even know what's wrong with it and what resolution it is...
P.S. after rebooting(remember that ati-fglrx and ati-fglrx-utils are removed) fglrx module was loaded in memory(rmmod fglrx removed it without any warnings) - that's strange. also after rebooting i still have problem with resolution
P.P.S. Do u need my Xorg's log???

Cerebral · 2006-09-30 06:21:47

What's the output of:

$ sudo updatedb
$ locate fglrx

- you shouldn't have any fglrx.ko files, and if you do, remove them.

As for the resolution being wierd, I don't know why it's doing that... it works once, but quit and (without changing anything) the second run it's a different res? Got me stumped.

alcazoid · 2006-09-30 16:06:33

Cerebral wrote:

What's the output of:
$ sudo updatedb
$ locate fglrx
- you shouldn't have any fglrx.ko files, and if you do, remove them.
As for the resolution being wierd, I don't know why it's doing that... it works once, but quit and (without changing anything) the second run it's a different res? Got me stumped.

Yes, you are absolutely right about resolutions despite of my bad english . I found lots of ati crap in /etc/profile - it's loading fglrx-dri, but i don't know if this affects radeon driver. I have no fglrx.ko in my filesystem now and trying to make at least "radeon" driver working... I also noticed that I can't switch layouts and winkeys are not working.
Will be very grateful for any help!

alcazoid · 2006-09-30 18:14:04

:twisted: Yes! I made it! Radeon driver is working! This happened after removing fglrx crap from /etc/profile !
But I still have problem with keyboard, I think this is xkb problem - cause my layouts are written like Xkb options(winkeys too). Will try to solve it myself, but if u have something to say - please tell me
What I realy need ur advice about is direct rendering, look at my xorg.conf - i only changed fglx -> radeon - is everything all right?
Thanks!

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#1 2006-09-28 16:37:22

Still have problems with ATI

#2 2006-09-28 17:10:43

Re: Still have problems with ATI

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