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TheZech

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Registered: 2015-03-13

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[Solved] Radeon driver is installed, OpenGL doesn't seem to work.

I recently installed the

xf86-video-ati

driver from the official repos.

lspci -v produces the following output:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Tahiti XTL [Radeon R9 280X OC]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25
	Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
	I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
	Expansion ROM at fea40000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
	Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [200] #15
	Capabilities: [270] #19
	Capabilities: [2b0] Address Translation Service (ATS)
	Capabilities: [2c0] #13
	Capabilities: [2d0] #1b
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
	Kernel modules: radeon

Indicating that the radeon driver is loaded.

But running any program from GpuTest (http://www.geeks3d.com/20130419/gputest … -released/) only gives me the following error:

X Error of failed request:  GLXBadFBConfig
  Major opcode of failed request:  155 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  34 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  30
  Current serial number in output stream:  29

Steam also doesn't launch, giving the following error:

libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by TheZech (2015-08-03 18:29:33)

R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] Radeon driver is installed, OpenGL doesn't seem to work.

Did you install mesa?

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TheZech

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Registered: 2015-03-13

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Re: [Solved] Radeon driver is installed, OpenGL doesn't seem to work.

Yes, mesa and lib32-mesa are both installed.

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Radeon driver is installed, OpenGL doesn't seem to work.

post xorg logs (/var/log/Xorg.0.log or ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log)

TheZech

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Registered: 2015-03-13

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Radeon driver is installed, OpenGL doesn't seem to work.

Apparently Steam not launching was a separate issue, and games do actually work.