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roland

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Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 8

Question regarding Xorg7 and fglrx

Hello there,

I must say, I'm really impressed with Arch Linux. Tiny install and very up to date with pacman. It runs a little smoother than Ubuntu. So far I have gotten all window managers to work and fixed the alsa sound and installed all my development packages.

I guess, the next task is to have fglrx working since I have a Radeon 9000. I installed the ati-fglrx using pacman, but when I type `fglrxinfo` I get:

Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: [url=http://www.mesa3d.org]www.mesa3d.org[/url]
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.2)

I remmeber from some tutorial that said that the command above needs to say something about ATI and from my Ubuntu days that was the case. I also read in the wiki that fglrx should take precendence from the DRI driver.

I also read that by typing Xorg -configure from Gnome I get:

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
        If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
        and start again.

and when I do the same without having any X server session running, I get a bunch of error messages that indicate the some connections are being refused.

Please, let me know if you have any suggestions,

Roland[/code]

djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Question regarding Xorg7 and fglrx

Hey

Try removing the "ati" driver from your xorg.conf and replacing it with "fglrx"

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Chman

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Registered: 2006-01-31

Posts: 169

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Re: Question regarding Xorg7 and fglrx

With fglrx, use "aticonfig" to generate a proper xorg.conf.

About the ATI 9000, you might want to use open sources drivers.

roland

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Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 8

Re: Question regarding Xorg7 and fglrx

Thanks guys,

However, I currently I am not running with a xorg.conf file. Actually I can't even find one on my laptop. I was aware of configuring the Xorg drivers correctly but I can't seem to find it in /etc/X11 . Actually I did an updatedb and a find xorg.conf and the only thing was /usr/man/man5/xorg.conf.5x.gz.

Weird eh?

Apprechiate your input.
Let me know,

Roland

roland

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Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 8

Re: Question regarding Xorg7 and fglrx

I thought the ATI drivers were better than the Mesa. What are you referring to with 'open source drivers' because I am not familiar with them (or maybe I am )?

Roland

roland

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Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 8

Re: Question regarding Xorg7 and fglrx

Hey, I fingured it out. I should have not been lazy. Using xorgconfig I got the initial xorg file and using aticonfig I added the fglrx info and finally getting.

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY/RADEON 9000 DDR Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.1091 (X4.3.0-8.27.6)

Cagnulein

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From: Modena, Italy

Registered: 2006-04-03

Posts: 260

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Re: Question regarding Xorg7 and fglrx

could you please post you xorg.conf?
Thanks

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