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DarkForte

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Registered: 2007-12-14

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-SOLVED- Cannot use Xorg -configure

Hello, sirs, I use an ATi Radeon X1300 card, and I cannot use Xorg -configure to configure Xorg, because it aborts the operation with "Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting.", and I also cannot use xorgconfig because it does not have my video card in its database (My video card is not supported by the open-source "radeon" driver), so it gives me a xorg.conf that does not work for me. Even though I installed the Catalyst drivers, I still can't configure xorg. Is there another way I could do it?

Last edited by DarkForte (2007-12-22 20:43:40)

lilsirecho

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Re: -SOLVED- Cannot use Xorg -configure

There are many examples of xorg.conf in the posts.  You could copy one of them and modify it to your card and system requirements and then insert it into /etc/X11/xorg.conf as root.

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byte

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Re: -SOLVED- Cannot use Xorg -configure

X -configure won't work with proprietary drivers, use aticonfig.

But you could also try it with xf86-video-vesa. If X -configure succeeds in creating a xorg.conf.new, just exchange "vesa" with "fglrx" in the driver section.

Also: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI

Last edited by byte (2007-12-15 02:16:28)

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hiob

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Registered: 2007-12-15

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Re: -SOLVED- Cannot use Xorg -configure

I had the same problem, my solution:

1. Install the driver and hwd(!) : pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils hwd
2. build a valid xorg.config: hwd -x
3. copy the file to the right position: cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf
4. finish with aticonfig: aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

I think this is the best way, because it's easyer to edit the xorg.conf now.
Ff you don't want to edit anything just try:
aticonfig -f --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Cerebral

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Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: -SOLVED- Cannot use Xorg -configure

Yeah, when using the proprietary drivers, Xorg -configure crashes.  T.T

Hackish solution is to temporarily uninstall catalyst-utils, run Xorg -configure to generate a starting-point xorg.conf, then reinstall catalyst-utils. Then you can edit the new xorg.conf and change the driver to 'fglrx'

Something like this:

$ pacman -Rd catalyst-utils
$ Xorg -configure
$ sed "s/vesa/fglrx" xorg.conf.new  # Or, preferably, edit it in an editor to make sure you get it right
$ pacman -S catalyst-utils
$ mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf