Xorg 6.8/7.0 ATI fglrx 8.22.5 Kernel-Independent Packages

Cerebral · 2006-02-11 21:56:02

Codemac, which version of the drivers are you using?
What errors (if any) are you getting in Xorg.0.log?

I had a problem with xv when I first switched to Xorg 7, but it went away on its own and I don't have any clue why it was happening in the first place.

codemac · 2006-02-12 06:40:29

I'm using your most recent, and I have no erors or warnings in my Xorg.0.log.

Cerebral · 2006-02-12 15:04:53

Did some googling about your error message, codemac, and came across a post in the Ubuntu forums that suggested this:

If you can't get XV to work and your using the ATI binary driver try adding this to your xorg.conf file in the device section:
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Fixed the problem for me

postlogic · 2006-02-15 11:16:25

I'm amazed. This went so flawlessly it almost hurt. Running X.org 6.8. Didn't have to alter anything, remove anything. Just restarted X and modprobed :-D

codemac · 2006-02-18 09:20:52

That worked wonderfully, thanks Cerebral.

Cerebral · 2006-02-19 03:41:51

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=18944&start=0

Iphitus is hard at work, guys, trying to bring us official arch packages for ati-drivers and xorg 7.
He's hit upon an idea that I think is better than the method my packages here use to install fglrx - the kernel module and userspace files are now in seperate packages, allowing for clean, efficient pacman-management of all ati-drivers files and removing the single-kernel limitation of previous builds of the package. This, IMO, is the best way to handle it, and I'm kind of disappointed I didn't think of it myself.

Once he's got a good set of drivers up, I'd wholly recommend you all use them instead of my packages here - for the time being, my experience suggests the current packages in [testing] won't quite work properly, and I'm hoping iph will take my advice in the thread linked above.

-edit-
Iphitus and I worked together to get the ati-drivers packages in testing working, and working well. I've added a notice to the first post in this thread - I'm planning on sticking with the repo versions of the ATI drivers from now on. I haven't removed my packages from this thread yet, but I'm no longer actively maintaining them.

If you're not using xorg 7 yet, then you can still use the ati-drivers available in [community] that are built for xorg 6.8. If you are using xorg 7, then I recommend you remove my package and update to the version in [testing]

Komodo · 2006-02-22 14:14:34

Great package, tho sadly I can't install it:

Once built, the package complains that it conflicts with libgl-dri, preventing me from installing it. I can't uninstall libgl-dri, since it's required by mesa, which in turn is required by qt, freeglut....

Any suggestions?

Cerebral · 2006-02-22 16:32:07

Komodo: Any reason you prefer not to install the packages available in [extra]?

To answer your question though, this happens because libgl-dri provides libgl, but so does ati-drivers (my package here AND the ones in the repos).

To fix it you need to remove libgl-dri:

pacman -Rd libgl-dri

then install ati-drivers.

kozaki · 2006-02-22 18:16:10

First let me thank cerebral & iphitus for all the hard work they've done in providing nice & workin with Xorg7 ati-drivers to a lot of guys

Even so, I can't get them to load on my small Dell Latitude L400 laptop.

I installed Xorg7 stricltly following the (brand) new wiki, then configured xorg.conf (adding synaptics & giving Xorg -configure a try).
Installed ati-drivers & ~-arch (8.22.5-3 & ~-2), but when I wanna load fglrx, here's what I get :

# modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-ARCH/video/fglrx.ko): No such device

Adding fglrx to rc.conf (also tried to add to mkinitrd.conf "ADD_MODULE=") didn't help.

Also launched aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf but X still did not start.

Any help would be very welcome.

hwd -s

Video : ATI|Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x server: XFree86 (vesa)

Actual Device section (Vesa's workin, not fglrx) :

Section "Device"
Driver "vesa"
Identifier "Card0"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
#Section "Device"
# Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
# Driver "fglrx"
# BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
#EndSection

Former (workin great) Xorg-6.8 xorg.conf showed

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "All"
BoardName "All"
EndSection

Cerebral · 2006-02-22 18:35:13

kozaki: the ati-drivers packages in [extra] only support radeon cards, not rage.
You'll have to stick with xf86-video-ati and your old xorg.conf device section.

kozaki · 2006-02-22 18:56:42

allright, I got it :-/
Yet thank you for your work

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#26 2006-02-11 21:56:02

Re: Xorg 6.8/7.0 ATI fglrx 8.22.5 Kernel-Independent Packages

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#30 2006-02-18 09:20:52

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#31 2006-02-19 03:41:51

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#32 2006-02-22 14:14:34

Re: Xorg 6.8/7.0 ATI fglrx 8.22.5 Kernel-Independent Packages

#33 2006-02-22 16:32:07

Re: Xorg 6.8/7.0 ATI fglrx 8.22.5 Kernel-Independent Packages

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