[gentoo-user] ATI 1900 & ati drivers

[gentoo-user] ATI 1900 & ati drivers

[James]

Hello,

I first set the card up using the radeon open source drivers. The sceen clarity
was not very good. The AMD64 system is find under XP, so the monitor and card
function properly.

I next tried the ati-binaries, trying what was suggested in several 
web pages.

When I run startx, the screen just goes black.
When I try to rund fglrxinfo (without x started up)
I get:
Error: unable to open display :0

Here are the wikis I found:


http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_nodevice
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardwareChipset

Any ideas?

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Re: [gentoo-user] ATI 1900 & ati drivers

[Roman Zilka]

Hi,

for starters: what do your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
look like? What version of ati-drivers do you use? Have you tried
another version?

-Roman


> Hello,
> 
> I first set the card up using the radeon open source drivers. The sceen clarity
> was not very good. The AMD64 system is find under XP, so the monitor and card
> function properly.
> 
> I next tried the ati-binaries, trying what was suggested in several 
> web pages.
> 
> When I run startx, the screen just goes black.
> When I try to rund fglrxinfo (without x started up)
> I get:
> Error: unable to open display :0
> 
> Here are the wikis I found:
> 
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
> http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_nodevice
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardwareChipset
> 
> Any ideas?
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[gentoo-user] Re: ATI 1900 & ati drivers

[James]

Roman Zilka <rzilka <at> gvid.cz> writes:


> for starters: what do your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> look like? What version of ati-drivers do you use? Have you tried
> another version?

Hello Roman,

The last few lines of the log file:

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === begin, [s]
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 0.1.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(II) fglrx(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(EE) fglrx(0): Given depth (16) is not supported by fglrx driver
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitVisual failed
SetVBEMode failed
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === end

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x71) [0x48bea1]
1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2b3d616d0720]
2: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so(atiddxDriverEntPriv+0xf)
[0x2b3d6304d
84f]
3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so(atiddxFreeScreen+0x2b)
[0x2b3d63052b8
b]
4: X(xf86DeleteScreen+0x5b) [0x49f2ab]
5: X(InitOutput+0xa15) [0x45f7c5]
6: X(main+0x26f) [0x430e5f]
7: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2b3d616be134]
8: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x430339]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting


Here's the latest xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
# James addes these
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "vbe"
        Load    "GLcore"
        Load    "bitmap"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
#       Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option  "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
#       Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option  "Device" "/dev/misc/psaux"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
#james addes these lines:
        #HorizSync    28.0 - 96.0
        HorizSync    31.0 - 80.0
        #VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
        VertRefresh  60.0 - 75.0

EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"        # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "Unknown Board"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
  DefaultColorDepth 16
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   1
                Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   4
                Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   8
                Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   15
                Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   16
                Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
                Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   32
                Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection

EndSection
Section "dri"
  Group "video"
  Mode 0666
EndSection


James

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[gentoo-user] Working: Re: ATI 1900 & ati drivers

[james]

Roman Zilka <rzilka <at> gvid.cz> writes:



Hello Roman,

I changed the default color depth from 16 to 24; xorg
now works. Bzflag will not run, but, with all of the
changes, I'm just going to recompile bzflag and see 
what that does.


James

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