X11 catalyst-total

teclis · 2012-01-16 19:03:37

Hi there,
I still can't start my X11 with ATI driver, recently I decided to use propietary driver then I went to this page: https:/wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst and I followed some steps as been described in these guide, prior to final installation of catalyst-total I "was invited" to deinstall some software due to some kind of incompability, these software has been deinstalled.

yaourt -Rnsc libgl xf86-video-ati ati-dri libcl lib32-libgl amdstream cpyrit-opencl-svn cuda_memtest gnome-session libreoffice-common libva mesa mplayer opencl-nvidia qt stellarium wxgtk xorg-xdriinfo attica clutter cuda-toolkit ffmpeg freeglut gambit gdm glew gnuplot grantlee jasper libdbusmenu-qt libqzeitgeist libreoffice-base libreoffice-calc libreoffice-draw libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-impress libreoffice-kde4 libreoffice-math libreoffice-sdk libreoffice-sdk-doc libreoffice-writer minitube ostinato phonon polkit-qt qca qscintilla qt3 qtwebkit smplayer soprano unetbootin-git vlc-git xorg-utils kdelibs

Of course before to do nothing I already did a backup from my /etc/X11 consecuently if I don't lograte to start my X-Window system almost I can roll back all changes!

After to Install catalyst-total I edit my grub and I set a new option with the same in other but I set new option has a line wich end whith nomodeset. Finally my last step was execute this command:

aticonfig --initial

now it's time to reboot my system but gdm does not start any more longer!!!

so I put my invalid xorg.conf configuration and error message when I started X-Window. Could somebody giveme some light about what i need to do????

Error:

X.Org X Server 1.11.3
Release Date: 2011-12-16
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.1.5-1-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux myhost 3.1.9-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 14 09:11:37 CET 2012 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda8 ro nomodeset
Build Date: 17 December 2011 09:17:41AM
Current version of pixman: 0.24.0
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 16 19:14:57 2012
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
FATAL: Module fglrx not found.
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized.
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.(EE) fglrx(0):
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to initialize
[glesx] __glESXExtensionInit: No GL ES2.0 capable screen found!
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down (EE) fglrx(0): Failed shutdown interrupts. Error -9
Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

.:B:. · 2012-01-16 19:36:13

You can stop reading at the FATAL line:

FATAL: Module fglrx not found.

This might provide a clue as well:

Build Operating System: Linux 3.1.5-1-ARCH x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux myhost 3.1.9-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 14 09:11:37 CET 2012 x86_64

Try rebuilding the kernel module. Are you using the mkinitcpio hook?

Last edited by .:B:. (2012-01-16 19:37:38)

teclis · 2012-01-16 21:46:08

the package catalyst-total according to its description contains with mkinitcpio (catalyst-hook) almost I undestand that also in wiki is said that catalyst-total package is less headhache xDDD.

catalyst-total:

AMD/ATI drivers. catalyst-hook + catalyst-utils + lib32-catalyst-utils

and new fglrx module was generated when the package was installed but I forced to create another one

catalyst_build_module remove_all  catalyst_build_module all

also I check mkinitcpio.conf and HOOKS String contains a literal for fglrx

Maybe is related to new fglrx but X-Window error message is different

X.Org X Server 1.11.3
Release Date: 2011-12-16
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.1.5-1-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux myhost 3.1.9-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 14 09:11:37 CET 2012 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda8 ro nomodeset
Build Date: 17 December 2011 09:17:41AM
Current version of pixman: 0.24.0
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 16 22:39:26 2012
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
[- XMM_GLX] [I ]glesxXvInit Configureable RGBOutputColorRange
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

.:B:. · 2012-01-16 21:50:59

Well at least it's finding the driver now .

Try regenerating a new Xorg.conf with the ATi tools, like explained in the Arch wiki.

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#1 2012-01-16 19:03:37

X11 catalyst-total

#2 2012-01-16 19:36:13

Re: X11 catalyst-total

#3 2012-01-16 21:46:08

Re: X11 catalyst-total

#4 2012-01-16 21:50:59

Re: X11 catalyst-total

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