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Lemony Snicket

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Registered: 2007-01-02

Posts: 3

fglrx and T40p

Hello everyone!
I'm new to ArchLinux. I started to install it on my IBM T40p. Everything went fine. But now I've a Problem to get fglrx working.
The way I tried ton configure fglrx is like it is written here (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … Kernel_2.6). Yes, I had a working xorg.conf, after that I tried to configure that one with

aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

. Since then I couldn't start my Xserver anmore. The log says something like:

(EE) No devices detected. ... no screens found...

Has someone running Arclinux on a T40p?

Kernel: 2.6.19-ARCH
xorg.conf:

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "ch"
    Option        "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "USB Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
    HorizSync    30 - 60
    VertRefresh  50 - 75
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1400x1050"
    EndSubSection    
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: fglrx and T40p

Can you give us a few lines around the EE message?  The log will be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log so you can copy it from there - it'll probably have a few messages before that can give you an idea of why it's failing.

The xorg.conf looks okay to me, which is why I ask.

e_tank

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Registered: 2006-12-21

Posts: 80

Re: fglrx and T40p

what driver version are you using?  the t40p has a firegl 9000 and support for that card series was dropped with the release of fglrx 8.29.6.  you'll either have to use version 8.28.8 or the r200_dri driver.  try both and see which works best, and if you wouldn't mind please post your results as i'm curious to how big of a performance difference exist between the two

Lemony Snicket

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Registered: 2007-01-02

Posts: 3

Re: fglrx and T40p

Thank you for Reply.

the t40p has a firegl 9000 and support for that card series was dropped with the release of fglrx 8.29.6. you'll either have to use version 8.28.8 or the r200_dri driver.

Thats exactly what I found out in the meantime. No Support for my card anymore. So I'll try the older driver version. I try to post my results here as soon as possible. But at the moment I have a fight with the atheros/madwifi/wpa_supplicant-thing. But this is OT in this Post.
:oops:

Cerebral

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Re: fglrx and T40p

Whoops, didn't bother looking up the system specs - good spot, e_tank.

Lemony, I'd advise you to try the r200_dri driver, available in the xf86-video-ati and libgl-dri packages from pacman.  I've been told that it does the job quite well, and IMO it's probably less prone to breakage than an older version of fglrx.

koen_vb

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Registered: 2007-02-09

Posts: 7

Re: fglrx and T40p

I had the same problem with my Thinkpad R51. It has a Radeon R250 fireGl 9000 on board.
But is it bad to use an older driver? Because I want to try XGL and compiz /beryl .
And as far as I understand the dri driver has no support for this kind of fancy things?
And how to say to pacman that I don't want to update that particular package?

I tried to find the old drivers as mentioned in the wiki : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages
But don't find them. So I have to compile them myself? Brr it will be the first compile... Maybe I just stick with the  OSS drivers and later on when I'm a little familiar with compiling and stuff I can try the fancy graphical stuff.

Last edited by koen_vb (2007-02-09 19:18:39)

Cerebral

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Re: fglrx and T40p

I had the same problem with my Thinkpad R51. It has a Radeon R250 fireGl 9000 on board.
But is it bad to use an older driver? Because I want to try XGL and compiz /beryl .
And as far as I understand the dri driver has no support for this kind of fancy things?

Actually, the DRI driver for radeon should support AIGLX with compiz/beryl.  AFAIK it doesn't work with XGL though - but I can't say for certain since I haven't tried either solution.

And how to say to pacman that I don't want to update that particular package?

You add an IgnorePkg line to /etc/pacman.conf.

So I have to compile them myself?

You would have to compile them yourself, then re-compile them every time the kernel updates.  It can get pretty tough to keep fglrx building on newer kernels - trust me on this, I know.   I think I recall someone maintaining 'old' fglrx packages in the AUR - might wanna check that out.