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royallthefourth

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2011-02-26

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Removed Discrete Graphics; Now X Won't Start (Catalyst)

I removed my Radeon 5770 earlier today because I don't really need it and it makes too much noise. I thought it would be fine to just take it out and reboot since my integrated graphics is Radeon 4200 and ought to use the same driver. Unfortunately, now X won't start. I've tried an aticonfig --initial and rebooted but it hasn't helped. In Xorg.0.log, there's some warnings:

[     8.143] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[     8.184] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[     8.296] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module xtrap
[     8.473] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
[     8.553] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:5:0) found

I think that PCI device is my old GPU. Where is that coming from? I should be able to automatically configure this the way it was automatically configured when I first installed Catalyst, right?

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm just going to use the open source driver. I'm sick of jumping through these hoops for 3D acceleration that I don't really need.

Last edited by royallthefourth (2011-08-17 18:00:08)