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vanes

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Registered: 2006-07-16

Posts: 14

Radeon problems

Curse the day I replaced my gf4 for an x1600. I can't get this thing working correctly.

All the drivers are installed and everything seems to be configured correctly but when I startx I get this:

All kinds of graphical glitches, also glxgears freezes my system. Here is my xorg.conf: http://rafb.net/paste/results/ZM7cOd24.html

Can anyone make heads or tails of this?

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: Radeon problems

My first guess would have been that you're trying to use composite extentions, but I see no evidence of that in your xorg.conf...

Are there any errors or warnings in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

vanes

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Registered: 2006-07-16

Posts: 14

Re: Radeon problems

Well, no errors. There are some fglrx warnings though. But none that seem relevant/critical to me.

The warnings related to fglrx:
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Specified desktop setup not supported: 8

Besides that just some font dir warnings and a bunch of informationals.

Here is the complete log of the last startx: http://rafb.net/paste/results/lhTILD71.html

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

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Re: Radeon problems

http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=403

According to this bug report, it seems FSAAEnable might be the culprit.  Try disabling FSAA - see if that helps.

vanes

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Registered: 2006-07-16

Posts: 14

Re: Radeon problems

thanks for looking that up :-). That description does seem to be exactly the problem i'm experiencing.

I'm going to try this out later when I have some more time.

vanes

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Registered: 2006-07-16

Posts: 14

Re: Radeon problems

hm, didn't seem to have any kind of effect. I tried both with creating a new config file with aticonfig and the --fsaa=off option and editing my conf file manually.

A shame, back to square one I guess. Atleast I have some lead now where the problem might be.