[SOLVED] X - configure segfaults

Dieter.Soltau · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2011 Posts: 68

X used to work fine for month (ati fglrx) but suddenly i get "no screens found" after i ran an update. i reran

BillWho · Veteran Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 1600 Location: US

Isn't there a aticonfig setup for fglrx :?:

I don't think X -configure will generate the correct configuration settings for the closed source driver.
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

Forget those autoconfigs. Delete your xorg.conf, you won't need any unless you're using a proprietary binary blob driver or have some really special setup. In the former case it's only a 3- or 4-liner telling xorg which binary blob to load.

Dieter.Soltau · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2011 Posts: 68

hmm.. i just fired up aticonfig, and it says "no supported device" ?? its an onboard radeon HD 3300 and it used to work fine all the time..

about xorg.conf .. if i fire up startx as root (just to test if it works) it creates an xorg.conf from scratch.. xorg.conf.new.. pity i am on windows now and can't do screencopys.. however.. i wil move the confs away and give /etc/xdm start another chance..

any other hints what the problems could be? the device is of course shown with lspci.. or is this a "politics" issue somehow with ATI and linux?

Gusar · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 10:03 am Post subject:

It's an issue of AMD dropping support for pre-Evergreen cards in their mainline driver. There's a 12.6-legacy driver that still has support. What's marked as 12.6_beta_pre897 in portage installs this legacy driver.

And genstorm is right, forget about auto-configurators. All you need is

Dieter.Soltau · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2011 Posts: 68

duh! thanks alot.. wel "pre-evergreen" hmm.. its not that an old board, tho.. thanks for letting me know wil but linux und give it a shot

solved... so i am stuck with the old driver now right? ah well..