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burgler09

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 4

Ati drivers?

Hey brand new to archlinux with a little bit of linux knowledge   I must say i really enjoyed the install but I got everything loaded up and logged in to my root i got xfce4 and xorg but when i type in startx all i get is a black screen and the cursor blinks a bit.  I am on a toshiba satellite with a Radeon Xpress 200M video card.. I installed the xf86-video-ati driver.  Any ideas what is wrong here or what would cause that in possibly the config files to do that?

FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing

Last edited by burgler09 (2007-02-17 03:04:58)

ToastedToad

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From: Sequim, WA

Registered: 2006-03-08

Posts: 79

Re: Ati drivers?

The 200M is not supported by the open source drivers. You'll need to use fglrx.

Captain Spaulding

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Registered: 2006-11-16

Posts: 115

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Re: Ati drivers?

The 200M is not supported by the open source drivers. You'll need to use fglrx.

That's only partially correct. The XPress 200M is not officially supported by the free open source driver, but it works nonetheless. Point in case, note that burgler09 wrote that root can start the X-Server and get usable results. Thus we have a rights issue here.

How did you create the normal user? What groups does he belong to?

Become the normal user and type groups to see, which groups the user belongs to. Please post the output here.

fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 125

Re: Ati drivers?

The 200M is not supported by the open source drivers. You'll need to use fglrx.

That's only partially correct. The XPress 200M is not officially supported by the free open source driver, but it works nonetheless.

I think there's no DRI support with the open source drivers, though - but of course that won't affect starting X.

If you're getting a black screen and a cursor doesn't that mean X is running, but there's no WM or DE?  Do you have a line to start XFCE in ~/.xinitrc?