ATi Binary drivers issue [SOLVED]

djpharoah · 2006-07-18 10:39:35

Hi guys. Giving Arch a try since I am getting sick of gentoo and its enormous compile times.

I recently installed base arch (in less than 30min!!) and installed fglrx drivers.
Now the problem is when I go into Gnome there is a white horizontal line underneath my mouse cursor.

Any ideas?

mille · 2006-07-18 13:07:32

Did you follow the wiki when you installed it?
I did, and it worked like a charm.

Maybe post your xorg.conf, and we can have a look at it.

drojid · 2006-07-18 13:20:55

...or an Xorg.0.log might be more useful...

I have the same symptoms when starting a second X instance on display :1. Display :0 works correctly, but :1 has the glitch You mentioned.

djpharoah · 2006-07-18 13:47:47

Thanks for the replies guys.

Will definitely post my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log file when I get home from work.

BTW, I am using my hack-job xorg.conf from my last gentoo install. Could that be the problem? Or should I just let hwd (mkxcfg) configure a newer xorg.conf? The xorg.conf file I am using is pretty old and hasnt been updated in maybe 2 years.

mille · 2006-07-18 15:55:00

Let hwd do the job for you, it works great!

djpharoah · 2006-07-18 16:35:36

mille wrote:

Let hwd do the job for you, it works great!

yeah thats what I figured...

my xorg.conf is so messy anyways..it has my stuff, commented fglrx stuff , various monitor modes etcc....cant even read anything.

mille · 2006-07-18 16:39:58

Yeah, let us know how it goes!
I had to manually edit my xorg.conf after running hwd -x to set my keyboard up correctly.

djpharoah · 2006-07-18 17:16:23

mille wrote:

Yeah, let us know how it goes!
I had to manually edit my xorg.conf after running hwd -x to set my keyboard up correctly.

Oh, is that because your in Sweden? Did it detect the wrong keyboard layout??

And yes will definitely post here if it goes well/bad. Thanks for the help bro.

mille · 2006-07-18 19:15:56

I guess so, it detected everything else correctly.
It´s a great tool.
Good luck!

djpharoah · 2006-07-19 03:29:06

just following up. It went great.

I ran

# hdw -x 
# aticonfig --initial-document=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Restarted and voila... everything is running smoothly with the fglrx drivers.

only issue is the command "glxgears" isnt found

Cerebral · 2006-07-19 03:45:28

glxgears is part of the mesa-apps package.

djpharoah · 2006-07-19 10:51:02

Cerebral wrote:

glxgears is part of the mesa-apps package.

Thanks. I was getting about ~2000 on my FireGL T2 128mb.
Consider this topic solved.

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