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artx

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Registered: 2007-06-15

Posts: 6

fglrx problems

hi
this is my first post
I use arch about 3 weeks, and today I installed a kernel manually.
before I used the default kernel and I had install the fglrx and fglrx-utils pkg and the ati drivers work correctly.
but now i have uninstall the fglrx and fglrx-utils, i install a new kernel manually (2.6.20-beyond2 not pkgbuild) and i have installed after the ati driver with the installer.
the installer dont output me errors, but now the 3d acc dont works:

[artx@acer-laptop ~]$ fglrxinfo
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual!

[artx@acer-laptop ~]$

[artx@acer-laptop ~]$ fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGBA, Double-buffered visu

[root@acer-laptop artx]# lsmod | grep fglrx
fglrx                 651616  0

Wath can I do? please help
THX

I forgot, the xorg.conf is the same that I used before and is ok

Last edited by artx (2007-06-15 22:17:10)

artx

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Registered: 2007-06-15

Posts: 6

Re: fglrx problems

resolved
I copy the module created by the installer, afeter I uninstalled the ati drivers, I reinstall the pkg fglrx-utils and I copy the module fglrx.ko in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/... and now works perfecty.
I'd like that pacman dont reconize the fglrx-modules pkg as a dipendence of the fglx-utils.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: fglrx problems

Well, one thing you could do is just update the beyond fglrx package manually for every update (you could find it in the arch CVS attic), and run makepkg on it - that way it could still be tracked by pacman.  The beyond kernel patchset is no longer being created, which is why -beyond drivers are no longer in the repos, so you'd have to re-build the module every time the drivers update to keep the versions in sync.