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jelen

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Registered: 2009-02-21

Posts: 10

Xorg -configure problem

Hello.

I'm currently in the process of installing Arch on my computer as the only OS, and am forced to make this post from my iPhone, so no copying for You guys.

I have done everything succesfuly except hwdetect which for some reason wasnt on my FTP CD nor is in Pacman, and the Xorg -configure. I have a Radeon X1950 Pro, have installed the propietary drivers, but when I do a Xorg -configure it aborts with signal 11 and there are two lines that interest me - (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:0) found, and the same one for PCI:0@1:0:1.

What could this be ? Help much appreciated. I AM able to start X, I have no direct rendering though as glxinfo | grep direct gives me "Error: unable to open display"

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,694

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Re: Xorg -configure problem

If your eth0 is detected you should be able to run pacman -S hwdetect and get from the servers. Or you cannot access the web as things are?

R.

jelen

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Registered: 2009-02-21

Posts: 10

Re: Xorg -configure problem

I have my wlan0 configured, it's just that the package is not there. I'm running x86_64.

EDIT:  I've installed openbox and firefox to make my life a bit easier, so that You can help me better ! Still the same problem though.

Last edited by jelen (2009-02-21 21:20:59)

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

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Re: Xorg -configure problem

OK. I'm officially confused.
Your original post suggests that you cannot run X applications since xorg.conf gives an error (and you used your phone to post) but in your latest post you indicate that you installed Openbox and Firefox which **must** run in X ... so, I do not understand what the problem is.
Would you mind to elaborate about the nature of  your problem?

R.

Last edited by ralvez (2009-02-22 02:11:51)

jelen

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Registered: 2009-02-21

Posts: 10

Re: Xorg -configure problem

I can't get direct rendering to work, nor my drivers. It uses vesa instead of FGLRX, that's the problem. I thought I couldn't run any WM, but I can.

I did however install open source drivers, and they do work fine. I'll stick with them for now, but Xorg -configure still gives the weird fglrx error