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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Serious problem with ATI driver

Hello , I just have installed Arch x86_64 on my laptop and I have a serious problem with 3d acceleration .
My ATI card is X1600
I have the latest ATi driver and xorg-xserver installed .

I can't run compiz Fusion at all but glxgears is functional , but slow (around 4500 fps , but with 8.37 in Ubuntu it reaches 8500-9000 ).

Here is my xorg.conf

Section "Files"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/corefonts"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Default Layout"
    Screen        "Default Screen"
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver        "kbd"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel"    "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "CorePointer"
    Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "Protocol"        "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons"    "true"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "dbe"
    Load    "type1"
    Load    "freetype"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "dri"
    SubSection  "extmod"
            Option        "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode    0666
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "My Graphics Card"
    Driver        "fglrx"
    BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option        "no_accel"         "no"
    Option        "no_dri"         "no"
    Option        "mtrr"             "off"
    Option        "DesktopSetup"         "clone"
    Option        "ScreenOverlap"     "0"
    Option        "Capabilities"         "0x00000800"
    Option        "CapabilitiesEx"     "0x00000000"
    Option          "VideoOverlay"         "on"
    Option          "OpenGLOverlay"     "off"
    Option          "CenterMode"         "off"
    Option          "PseudoColorVisuals"     "off"
    Option          "Stereo"         "off"
    Option          "StereoSyncEnable"     "1"
    Option          "FSAAEnable"         "no"
    Option          "FSAAScale"         "1"
    Option            "FSAADisableGamma"     "no"
    Option            "FSAACustomizeMSPos"     "no"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosX0"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosY0"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosX1"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosY1"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosX2"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosY2"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosX3"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosY3"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosX4"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosY4"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosX5"         "0.000000"
    Option            "FSAAMSPosY5"         "0.000000"
    Option            "UseFastTLS"         "1"
    Option            "BlockSignalsOnLock"     "on"
    Option            "UseInternalAGPGART"     "no"
    Option            "ForceGenericCPU"     "no"
    Option            "TVFormat"         "PAL-G"
    Option            "OverlayOnCRTC1"     "1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "My Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS"
    Option         "DPI"           "96 x 96"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Device        "My Graphics Card"
    Monitor        "My Monitor"
    Option        "UseEvents"        "true"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        24
        Modes        "1280x800"
        Viewport    0 0
    EndSubSection
    Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals"    "true"
EndSection

What should I do ...?

Last edited by flamelab (2007-12-26 16:00:31)

neXTPeer

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Registered: 2007-01-16

Posts: 20

Re: Serious problem with ATI driver

As I see, you are using fglrx driver. I havent heard, that compiz are working on fglrx...

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Serious problem with ATI driver

As I see, you are using fglrx driver. I havent heard, that compiz are working on fglrx...

What do you mean ?

That the current fglrx is not for Compiz ?

synorgy

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Registered: 2005-07-11

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Re: Serious problem with ATI driver

I've not heard anything that says that fglrx WON'T work with compiz. Granted I don't pretend to follow any development of compiz as I don't care for it (It's bloated and useless eyecandy in my opinion) That being said I have gotten it to work on an earlier driver version.

You state in your first post that you can't run compiz. Why not? Does X not start? Does it freeze?
Have you tried downgrading your ati driver version to 8.37, as that is the last one you have gotten to work well?

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Serious problem with ATI driver

I've not heard anything that says that fglrx WON'T work with compiz. Granted I don't pretend to follow any development of compiz as I don't care for it (It's bloated and useless eyecandy in my opinion) That being said I have gotten it to work on an earlier driver version.

You state in your first post that you can't run compiz. Why not? Does X not start? Does it freeze?
Have you tried downgrading your ati driver version to 8.37, as that is the last one you have gotten to work well?

How can I downgrade ?
Download the previous one and pacman -U it ?