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danihell

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Registered: 2007-08-12

Posts: 2

[solved] fglrx driver with dri doesn't work

Hi,

I have a Radeon 9550 card. With the ati generic driver, the 3d works fine getting good results with glxgears and tuxracer. But with the fglrx driver, the X session doesn't start if I enable the dri resulting in a blank screen and a system crash. I saw some people with the same problem, but with me all solutions I found didn't work. And as the other cases I've seen, the Xorg.0.log doesn't return any errors with de dri enabled. I tried a lot of combinations in xorg.conf and this was the last:

Section "Module"

    Load  "ddc" 
#    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "bitmap" 
    Load  "speedo"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record" 
     SubSection "extmod"
      Option "omit xfree86-dga"
     EndSubSection
EndSection
 

Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier     "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

#    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
#    ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
    FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "abnt2"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "br"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"    # IntelliMouse PS/2
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "LG 775N"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
 EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ati9550"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
    Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
    Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
    Option "NoDRI" "no"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen 1"
    Device     "ati9550"
    Monitor    "LG 775N"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
        Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

I'm using Arch Linux Don't Panic release. By the way, I had the same problem with the Mandriva 2007 Spring One live cd.

Last edited by danihell (2007-08-14 18:21:34)

veek

Member

Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 167

Re: [solved] fglrx driver with dri doesn't work

Any errors in dmesg?

whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: [solved] fglrx driver with dri doesn't work

I've got a 9550 and have not had any problems using the fglrx driver, these are the only differences I have that you don't  have in xorg.conf

Section "Module"
    Load  "GLcore" 
    Load  "drm"

Section "Device"
#    Option "UseInternalAGPGART"         "no"

I do not have  Option "NoDRI" "no" at all in this section

Section "DRI"
    Group    "video"
   

Section "Extensions"
    Option "RENDER" "Enable"

May be worth trying

danihell

Member

Registered: 2007-08-12

Posts: 2

Re: [solved] fglrx driver with dri doesn't work

whompus,

I tried your suggestion and it didn't work.

But I fixed the issue in a other way. In the BIOS settings a changed de Agp mode to 2x. It isn't a great solution, but it worked. And although I decreased the agp speed, the fglrx driver gets better results in glxgears and tuxracer than ati generic driver in 4x/8x agp mode.

Last edited by danihell (2007-08-14 18:18:50)