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samsu7

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 2

Problem with xorg and ati

Trying to get Arch working on a IBM T41 laptop with Ati Radeon 9000 video card. I installed xorg and ati driver with

pacman -S xorg
pacman -S xf86-video-ati libgl ati-dri

When I try startx the window manager starts but is immediately frozen, no mouse, no keyboard, only plugging the power cord off "helps". When I (after a restart) look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, there are no errors. What's wrong?

Also, there seems to be no xorgconfig in my installation. Where do I find it?

Thanks,

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JJ

Last edited by samsu7 (2009-06-15 17:36:23)

venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: Problem with xorg and ati

same here i have HAL radeonhd and no xorg.conf all i get is a frozen kde desktop

Last edited by venky80 (2009-06-17 04:46:02)

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markisthejob

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From: Cork, Ireland

Registered: 2008-09-01

Posts: 63

Re: Problem with xorg and ati

samsu7 run as root:

Xorg -configure

Also you need to make sure hal is in the daemon list in /etc/rc.conf

samsu7

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 2

Re: Problem with xorg and ati

I did "Xorg -configure" and added hal to the DAEMONS array in rc.conf but it didn't help. I then tried xorg.conf from

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vbraun/comput … /xorg.conf

and it solved the problem. So far i haven't figured out what in xorg.conf is causing (or preventing) the freeze.

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JJ

sayems

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2009-02-09

Posts: 11

Re: Problem with xorg and ati

* Configuring Xorg
          o # pacman -S xorg
          o # yaourt -S hwd (Automatic Hardware Detection)
          o # hwd -xa
          o # pacman -S xf86-input-evdev
          o # pacman -S xf86-input-mouse (It wont freeze after installing it)
          o # pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard
          o # /etc/rc.d/hal start
          o # pacman -Rd libgl (Remove it before Installing Catalyst drivers)

    * ATI graphics card
          o # yaourt -S catalyst catalyst-utils
          o # aticonfig --initial
          o # lspci | grep VGA

Last edited by sayems (2009-06-28 02:22:40)

oib111

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Registered: 2009-06-20

Posts: 87

Re: Problem with xorg and ati

Don't you have to copy xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf