xorg and video drivers

hendricks · 2008-03-23 22:32:58

Question: I have an A20m thinkpad on which i am bulding arch. auto detection has determined my video board is a Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x, and it wants to use "mach64" as the driver, which I do not have. Can i use the open ati driver? Mach64 is still under development, right?
When I run the xorg server test I get FATAL error "mach64" even if I have changed the driver to "ati" and installed it. Any suggestions would be great!

Thank you!

tehanomaly · 2008-03-23 22:34:47

Can you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? - it may help give a solution

hendricks · 2008-03-23 22:46:06

my system is new, and i don't have a GUI up yet, but I can type out the bits that you think might give insight. Which would you like?

tehanomaly · 2008-03-23 23:01:16

How are you running the xorg server test? The best bits would be the "Module" and "Device" sections from the .conf file that is being used in the server test (usually xorg.conf)

Another thing is to check that you have the xf86-video-ati and libgl packages.

Check out http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI too - pretty much everything related to ATI & X

hendricks · 2008-03-23 23:29:45

I am running the test on a xorg.conf.new file. Results are:

FATAL: Module mach64 not foud
(EE) [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) MACH64(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed

Device Section of xorg.conf

Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI Tech Inc"
BoardName "Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

I will read that document. Any thoughts on the above?

tehanomaly · 2008-03-24 16:24:25

These threads: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=324509 -> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43041 may help - I wasn't aware that the mach64 module had been removed from xf86-video-ati

Try rebuilding xf86-video-ati using info from the above threads and see if that helps. Your xorg.conf(.new) looks ok so with the new module you (hopefully) should be ok

Fingers crossed!

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