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xorgx3

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 197

Errors/Warnings in Xorg.log after switching to open source driver

Hi,
I just switched from AMD Catalyst to open-source driver. And i got some warnings and errors about fglrx in my Xorg.0.log:

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
[   558.020] Current Operating System: Linux laptop 3.17.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 14 23:13:48 CET 2014 x86_64
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[   559.258] (EE) AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[   558.035] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[   558.035] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[   558.042] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[   558.064] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
[   558.074] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@2:0:1) found
[   558.082] (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
[   558.172] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
[   558.172] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
[   559.444] (WW) evdev: Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:200a: ignoring absolute axes.

Should I worry about it? Can I remove this errors in some way?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Errors/Warnings in Xorg.log after switching to open source driver

Are you sure /var/log/Xorg.0.log is the current log https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X#General ?

xorgx3

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 197

Re: Errors/Warnings in Xorg.log after switching to open source driver

Oh, I didn't know new Xorg has log in the another place, thank!

But still i have some warnings in my file:

	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    16.745] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[    16.746] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[    16.761] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[    16.973] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[    16.973] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[    16.978] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[    16.978] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Errors/Warnings in Xorg.log after switching to open source driver

You can fix them if you like, but they're harmless.
One way of dealing with

[    16.973] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[    16.973] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[    16.978] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa

is to install

xf86-video-fbdev
xf86-video-modesetting
xf86-video-vesa

Install and enable acpid.
Read the log to see what do you have to do with the fonts. This is one problem with grepping - it may remove valuable info :-)

I get the last warning too.