testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

FrankTM · 2006-02-21 00:08:36

running without any troubles

since xorg 7 moved up to current I had no choice but installing it.
on my laptop this gave me a bit of trouble, but on my desktop, with a ati card installed I was a little afraid

anyhow... installing the ati-driver-arch package didn't bring me any worries
it only complained about overriden some old files
I think this was due to the manual install I did the last time (ati installer from the ati website).

after forcing these packages (pacman -Sf ati-drivers-arch) it just worked
great work :!:

lilsirecho · 2006-02-21 01:21:33

Please list the proper xorg entries for ati drivers. Mine don't pass muster and cant copy them from other drive with no display.

Cerebral · 2006-02-21 02:40:32

gasparov wrote:

Hi
I have direct rendering as root but not as user,it complains about permissions denied

Check if /dev/shm/ATI* exists, and if so, remove it as root.

funkmuscle · 2006-02-21 02:56:50

no that is not in fstab but I got the app Blender working as root.
It complained about the opengl when ran as user.
But now I got it running as user.
I stll get:
#modprobe flgrx
FATAL: Module flgrx not found.

normc · 2006-02-21 04:21:52

lilsirecho wrote:

Please list the proper xorg entries for ati drivers. Mine don't pass muster and cant copy them from other drive with no display.

I would like them too.

funkmuscle · 2006-02-21 04:36:16

not sure what you're looking for but if it's the xorg.conf, I have this section for the ati:

# Device configured by xorgconfig:

Section "Device"
Identifier "ati radeon flgrx"
Driver "radeon"
VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "ati radeon flgrx"
Monitor "hp a4033a"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

gasparov · 2006-02-21 10:51:01

Ok Solved even if i don't know how bad,in /dev/dri/ (permissions 755) i had card0 (something like 740) and swithcehd to 777 permissions.

Could you guys please do : ls -l /dev/dri/

funkmuscle:The module is "fglrx" , you wrote it wrong both times,I don't know if is a typo
This is something as the simplest xorg.conf you can get:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig Screen 0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"###these are for me
        Option      "XkbLayout" "it"####
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig Monitor 0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"####lspci
EndSection
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig Screen 0"
        Device     "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
        Monitor    "aticonfig Monitor 0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

I don't know if also with xorg7 the following part is needed:

Section "DRI"
         Mode    0666
EndSection

I have a bunch of xorg.conf,some from 6.8 no ati,some from 6.8 with ati ecc ecc
http://gas.tranza.it/files/xorg/xorg.conf working xorg7
http://gas.tranza.it/files/xorg/xorg.conf_defaultok xorg6.8 clean xorg install

funkmuscle · 2006-02-21 12:19:33

not a typo, I write it wrong. fixed it now. Thanx....
# ls -l /dev/dri/
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 226, 0 2006-02-19 21:37 card0

savantfou · 2006-02-21 12:22:27

Hello,
I've update to xorg7 and now i can't have X on my machine.
I've got the archck kernel
I have installed the ati-drivers and ati-drivers-archck
My video card is a radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
It was working before on xorg6
Now when i modprobe radeon, there is no error but when i want to modprobe fglrx, there is an error: Error inserting .... No such device
Thanks for help
Tom

funkmuscle · 2006-02-21 12:27:50

same issues I had but check below to see what gasparov wrote.
he is very helpful.

Cerebral · 2006-02-21 14:03:16

Yes, if you want to use the ATI fglrx driver, then you don't want

Driver "radeon"

you do want

Driver "fglrx"

savantfou · 2006-02-21 14:14:11

yes i want to use the fglrx driver but whent i want to modprobe there is this error Error inserting .... No such device
I'm using xorg.conf gasparov file and the x server don't start (error: no device detected)
Tom

Cerebral · 2006-02-21 14:31:57

savantfou: I think the answer to your problem is simple. fglrx only supports the following mobility cards:

# Mobility™ Radeon® X700
# Mobility™ Radeon® X600
# Mobility™ Radeon® 9800
# Mobility™ Radeon® 9600
# Mobility™ Radeon® 9550
# Mobility™ Radeon® 9000
# Mobility™ Radeon® 9200
# Radeon® Xpress 200M series

savantfou · 2006-02-21 14:40:56

Ok thanks,
Any idea to how make it work?
If im'using my old xorg.conf and the driver radeon, then startx stop with a black screen and i can't have access to any tty
Thanks for your help

Cerebral · 2006-02-21 16:55:59

savantfou: have you installed the xf86-video-ati package?

savantfou · 2006-02-21 17:12:29

Yes it is

Cerebral · 2006-02-21 17:17:30

savantfou - any way I can take a look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

lilsirecho · 2006-02-21 17:28:46

Gasparov;

Thanks for the several listings of xorg.conf.

It should be of value to many users.

savantfou · 2006-02-21 17:36:22

Hello,
I've reinstalled the kernel26 (not archck) and the problem is the same

The end of the xorg.0.log

(B)
(II) Loading sub module "radeon"
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
(II) resource ranges after probing:
    [0] -1    0    0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
    [1] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x33ffffff (0x33f00000) MX[B]E(B)
    [2] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
    [3] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
    [4] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
    [5] -1    0    0x40300000 - 0x403000ff (0x100) MX[B]
    [6] -1    0    0x40200000 - 0x40200fff (0x1000) MX[B]
    [7] -1    0    0x40180000 - 0x40180fff (0x1000) MX[B]
    [8] -1    0    0x40100000 - 0x40100fff (0x1000) MX[B]
    [9] -1    0    0x40280000 - 0x402800ff (0x100) MX[B]
    [10] -1    0    0x34000000 - 0x340003ff (0x400) MX[B]
    [11] -1    0    0x60000000 - 0x5fffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
    [12] -1    0    0x40400000 - 0x4040ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B)
    [13] -1    0    0x48000000 - 0x4fffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
    [14] 0    0    0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B]
    [15] 0    0    0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B]
    [16] 0    0    0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B]
    [17] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
    [18] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
    [19] -1    0    0x00002400 - 0x0000243f (0x40) IX[B]
    [20] -1    0    0x00002000 - 0x000020ff (0x100) IX[B]
    [21] -1    0    0x00002440 - 0x00002447 (0x8) IX[B]
    [22] -1    0    0x00004400 - 0x0000443f (0x40) IX[B]
    [23] -1    0    0x00004000 - 0x000040ff (0x100) IX[B]
    [24] -1    0    0x00004440 - 0x0000444f (0x10) IX[B]
    [25] -1    0    0x00003000 - 0x000030ff (0x100) IX[B](B)
    [26] 0    0    0x404203b0 - 0x404203bb (0xc) IS[B]
    [27] 0    0    0x404203c0 - 0x404203df (0x20) IS[B]
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0x40400000
(II) RADEON(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(**) RADEON(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
(II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 16 bits stored in 2 bytes (16 bpp pixmaps)
(==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(**) RADEON(0): Option "accel"
(**) RADEON(0): Option "AGPMode" "4"
(**) RADEON(0): Option "AGPFastWrite" "yes"
(**) RADEON(0): Option "EnablePageFlip" "yes"
(**) RADEON(0): Option "DDCMode" "yes"
(**) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicClocks" "true"
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 0.1.0
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
(II) RADEON(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
(==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 565
(II) RADEON(0): Using 6 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libint10.a
(II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
(II) RADEON(0): initializing int10

Also with the kernel26 (not archck) i can access to my tty1 and there is an error with the drivers (vesa or radeon):
undefined symbol: xf86ExtendedInitInt10

Thanks
Tom

savantfou · 2006-02-21 21:41:08

It's ok now
1) Simply deinstall all xorg and xf86packages
pacman -Rsc xorg
pacman -Rsc xf86-*
No more xorg or xf86 packages listed with pacman -Q
2) I removed (or move to keep a backup) folder /etc/X11, /usr/X11R6, /usr/lib/xorg
3) Reinstall xorg, xorg-server, xorg-clients
4) Reinstall the xf86-video-ati for me
5) Regenerate a new xorg.conf or use a backuped one.
Thanks for your help
Tom

Daren · 2006-02-26 11:39:38

Hi

I was wondering if these still have the 'black screen' problem running with Kernel 2.6.15 when finishing an X Session?

Thanks

Cerebral · 2006-02-26 14:26:31

Daren,

The GL-kernel-panic-on-exit bug that occurred with 2.6.15 has been fixed as of 8.22.5 version of ati-drivers. I myself am still having problems of a slightly different nature, but I seem to be the only one, and I'm trying to figure out what's different in my setup that's causing this.

Daren · 2006-02-26 16:15:55

Thanks Cerebral,

So far it seems ok now, however, compared to the xorg ati driver, everything seems vertically squashed.

Example, playing a widescreen video (this is a 15.4 1280x800 laptop display btw) the picture is vertically shorter. I'm assuming it is setting a different DPI setting, but don't know how I can change it.

The same goes for fonts, they all look a little squished :shock:

The KDE control centre for display tells me it is the normal resolution & refresh, but not much else.

Any ideas?

Cerebral · 2006-02-26 16:21:01

Daren: Hm.. have you specified the size of your monitor in xorg.conf?

Look for a section like this, and add the line:

Section "Monitor"
    #your normal monitor stuff goes here
    DisplaySize  340    270 # in mm
    #            W      H
EndSection

Daren · 2006-02-26 16:26:32

In honesty, I didn't know you could!! :oops:

A bit of further investigation with xdpyinfo shows the fglrx is reporting a different mm/dpi size to the ati driver, so I will give this a go.

(Later edit)
That did the trick.. thanks a lot

Arch Linux

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

#43 2006-02-21 17:28:46

Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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Re: testing: ATI drivers for xorg7 - packages renamed.

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