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kick6 n00b
Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 29 Location: Golden, Colorado
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:04 pm Post subject: xorg fglrx aticonfig |
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I'm trying to follow the wiki for this, but have one question: is running aticonfig a must in order to get the fglrx drivers working? Around this forum there's lots of talk about not needing a xorg.conf for most configurations. |
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Ant P. Watchman
Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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fglrx is a proprietary driver; autoconfig is only for X's own drivers. |
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kick6 n00b
Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 29 Location: Golden, Colorado
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 12:42 am Post subject: |
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I understand that fglrx is a proprietary driver, and aticonfig is a program that comes with the installation of the ati-drivers package. I was just wondering if it was required. |
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djdunn l33t
Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 810
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:26 am Post subject: |
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yes you need to provide an xorg.conf if you use fglrx, though in my experience ive had much much more problems with fglrx, the likes of kernel panics, and the like, compared to radeon drivers. _________________ “Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful.”
― Plato |
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vaxbrat l33t
Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 731 Location: DC Burbs
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:56 am Post subject: requires a run of aticonfig |
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The fglrx and the proprietary nvidia driver both require a run of their configuration utilities to create xorg.conf files. |
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DONAHUE Watchman
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 7651 Location: Goose Creek SC
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 5:37 am Post subject: |
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running aticonfig --initial will provide a xorg.conf for fglrx that exceeds the minimum required - a device section.
My experience with fglrx has been very very good. YMMV. _________________ Defund the FCC. |
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kick6 n00b
Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 29 Location: Golden, Colorado
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 10:46 am Post subject: |
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Thanks guys. |
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szatox Advocate
Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3095
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Binary ati drivers are for performance, not for stability. I have had some crashes I'm pretty sure came from it (hey, what else would be able to crash the whole system?), but unfortnately sometimes you want features that pick one driver above the other for you. Like, I odn't think radeon driver can handle opencl which is supported by a lot of GPUs and with fglrx works fine |
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