fglrx not working!

miggols99 · 2007-06-10 19:50:58

I've installed "fglrx" and run

aticonfig --initial

But when I restarted X, my monitor turned off (but not the power) and I couldn't really do much. I replaced it with the old xorg.conf and it's ok. Does anyone know why this isn't working right?

NevroMance · 2007-06-10 21:47:22

Have you set /etc/rc.conf to start the deamon fglrx? Just add fglrx to DEAMONS on the bottom of rc.conf. If you want all users to have direct rendering, you also have to uncomment the "Section "dri"" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

ataraxia · 2007-06-10 22:32:09

"fglrx" goes into MODULES in rc.conf. "atieventsd" goes into DAEMONS.

NevroMance · 2007-06-10 22:51:37

Ok, hmmm... Saw it in the wiki now, but how come it still worked when fglrx where in my DAEMONS array?

ataraxia · 2007-06-10 23:22:29

Probably something else modprobe'd fglrx, and the bogus entry in DAEMONS was just ignored (or maybe complained about during the boot). I don't think atieventsd is actually required.

mixtr · 2007-06-11 02:35:06

That happened to me last week, I messed around with the Catalyst Control Center on my laptop and my screen would shut off and only my CRT would be "active" when I ran X. Look for this file: /etc/ati/amdpcsdb and look for this entry: S|DDX|EnableMonitor|Sxxx if you run on a laptop xxx should be lvds otherwise it should be ctr1.

Hope this helps

EDIT: I haven't tried but maybe deleting the whole directory could help. It would reset fglrx's settings

Last edited by mixtr (2007-06-11 02:36:24)

miggols99 · 2007-06-11 16:02:35

It's working now! All I had to do was add "fglrx" to the modules. I didn't need to add atieventsd to daemons. Thanks

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fglrx not working!

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