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OKAN

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Registered: 2009-01-11

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fglrx fatal error

I am trying to catalyst driver. But I have a problem. After I installed the catalyst

# modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/video/fglrx.ko): Cannot allocate memory

What should I do?

Note: I tried from aur and this topic http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 26#p577526, but it can not work.

AdrenalineJunky

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Registered: 2009-05-03

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Re: fglrx fatal error

try

 aticonfig --initial

then reboot.

OKAN

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Re: fglrx fatal error

# aticonfig --initial
No protocol specified
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

Whatelse?

Last edited by OKAN (2009-08-10 21:15:45)

AdrenalineJunky

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Re: fglrx fatal error

looks like most likely you are using a card not supported by your driver version - what card and driver are you using?

OKAN

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Re: fglrx fatal error

0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])                          
        Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5                                  
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 17  
        Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]        
        I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]                                 
        Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]     
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]   
        Capabilities: <access denied>                                
        Kernel modules: radeonfb

I used this driver before. I do not understand this situation.

AdrenalineJunky

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Re: fglrx fatal error

are you installing catalyst 9.3?

OKAN

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Re: fglrx fatal error

Catalyst 9.6-3

aphirst

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Re: fglrx fatal error

You need to install catalyst-old and catalyst-utils-old from the AUR for it to work on any cards before the HD2000 series. This is because ATI dropped support for all pre-HD2000 cards in versions 9.4 and later.

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OKAN

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Re: fglrx fatal error

I tried to install catalyst-old from AUR. But installation cutted.

==> Building and installing package
==> catalyst-utils-old 9.3-1 x86_64 (Sal Ağu 11 14:40:33 EEST 2009) paketi oluşturuluyor
==> Çalışma anında ihtiyaç duyulabilecek bağımlılıklar kontrol ediliyor...
==> Missing Dependecies:
  -> xorg-server<1.6.0
==> Derlenme sırasında ihtiyaç duyulabilecek bağımlılıklar kontrol ediliyor...
==> HATA: Bazı bağımlılıklar çözülemedi.
Error: Makepkg was unable to build catalyst-utils-old package.

Checking the integrity of the local database in /var/lib/pacman/

Checking the integrity of the local database in /var

Last edited by OKAN (2009-08-11 11:45:03)

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

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Re: fglrx fatal error

You cannot use fglrx/catalyst. For your setup, use radeon/xf86-video-ati (see wiki for more).

OKAN

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Re: fglrx fatal error

You cannot use fglrx/catalyst. For your setup, use radeon/xf86-video-ati (see wiki for more).

I am already using  radeon/xf86-video-ati. But I want to use catalyst. Because  radeon/xf86-video-ati driver is bad for me. I was using catalyst before.

AdrenalineJunky

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Re: fglrx fatal error

to install catalyst-old you'll have to roll back to xorg-server 1.5x and kernel 2.6.29

OKAN

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Re: fglrx fatal error

to install catalyst-old you'll have to roll back to xorg-server 1.5x and kernel 2.6.29

After roll back and catalyst-old installation, can I upgrade xorg-server and kernel?

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

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Re: fglrx fatal error

After roll back and catalyst-old installation, can I upgrade xorg-server and kernel?

No. Your downgrading them to get catalyst-old running. Otherwise it would be senseless, wouldn't it?