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gk007

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 2

ATI Mobility Radeon 5600 not Working with Xorg

I installed the ATI Catalyst drivers on the AUR by following the Wiki page (called ATI Catalyst), but when I try to run xinit with ths:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen         "Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "FGL.renamed.libglx"
    Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATIRadeon"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:0@1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen"
    Device     "ATIRadeon"
    Monitor    "Monitor"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode    0666
EndSection

xorg.conf, I get an error and xinit closes.

Xinit Output:

(EE) Failed to load module "fgl.renamed.libglx" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:0) found
(EE) No devices detected

And fglrx is in rc.conf, and I have tried loading with modprobe (it works fine).

Last edited by gk007 (2010-09-12 19:14:19)

sup

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From: Earth

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 21

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 5600 not Working with Xorg

Catalyst is in the AUR because it is not recommended. You should instead use the open source ati driver "xf86-video-ati". See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ati for all the info you need.

Also, DO NOT have an xorg.conf; it always causes more problems than it solves. The ATI page in the wiki that I just linked to will tell you how to set up Xorg without an xorg.conf.

Deusdies

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Registered: 2010-09-13

Posts: 116

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 5600 not Working with Xorg

Try running

# aticonfig --initial

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gk007

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 2

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 5600 not Working with Xorg

Ok, the driver is now the xf86 one, but now I just get a black screen and I have to do a hard reboot... The log says something about synaptic (i do have the drivers installed).

warenoso

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 76

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 5600 not Working with Xorg

have you deleted xorg.conf? try to run startx without xorg.conf