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pjezek

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From: Praha - CZ

Registered: 2005-05-19

Posts: 79

xorg7: fglrx drivers fails with modprobe

Arch installed three days ago from ISO Noodle (after a crash of an old HD), have been actualised up today with xorg7. ATI Radeon 7200LE card is correctly recognised by lshwd as Radeon QD using driver 'vesa', but a display in X flitters in comparison with that in xorg6.9, where it was absolutely steady . Package ati-fglrx is installed correctly. Module 'fglrx' fails loading either placed in modules section of rc.conf or manually invoked by 'modprobe'. Configuration via 'aticonfig' led to inefficient 'xorg.conf' for missing 'fglrx'. Module path in xorg.conf is correct and ATi drivers as well as 'fglrx'module are present. Monitor section of 'xorg.conf' has propper options according the monitor specification. Any idea what is wrong and why 'fglrx' is not recognised when trying to load it? Thank you.

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JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: xorg7: fglrx drivers fails with modprobe

You're running the latest kernel26 from current and have rebooted into that one?

pjezek

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From: Praha - CZ

Registered: 2005-05-19

Posts: 79

Re: xorg7: fglrx drivers fails with modprobe

Yes, the latest one (kernel26).

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brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: xorg7: fglrx drivers fails with modprobe

You card seems rather old, so you might be happy with the open source "radeon" driver from the xf86-video-ati package (make sure you have reinstalled libgl-dri if you want to use 3d acceleration).

The_Nerd

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From: Syracuse, NY / Baltimore, MD

Registered: 2005-11-30

Posts: 134

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Re: xorg7: fglrx drivers fails with modprobe

I think brain0 is right on this one. Your card is not offically supported by the fglrx driver as seen in this quote taken from the ati website

"The ATI Proprietary Linux driver currently supports Radeon 8500 and later AGP or PCI Express graphics products, as well as FireGL 8700 and later products. We do not currently plan to include support for any products earlier than this. Drivers for earlier products should already be available from the DRI Project or Utah-GLX project."

The opensource driver mentioned by brain0 should do the trick.

remove your ati drivers that you installed
re-install libgl-dri
install the open source ati driver "pacman -S xf86-video-ati"
change your driver line in xorg.conf to

Driver "radeon"

from what you most likely have right now...

Driver "fglrx"

that should do it!
best of luck!