ATI radeon Sticky (part 3)

[flacvest]

Anybody out there know how to get an MX Revolution mouse from Logitech working with evdev?

Mousing is the next major hurdle to conquer.


Thanks a bunch folks!

[Phlogiston]

The wiki seems to be outdated. Do you guys use the x11 overlay to get latest drivers?

[flacvest]

Hi there,

I just unmasked the latest drivers and it installed without a hitch.

The latest drivers I saw were 8.501

Is there a fresher set?


My issues were with the xorg.conf, due to my odd display, an 1280x720 dpi HDTV with DVI

Although, now I've done something "interesting" to my installation, and messed something up when unmerging and re-emerging xorg and ati-drivers. phooey on me.

You shouldn't any unusual problems installing the unmasked 8.501 drivers that I'm aware of.

Best of luck to you!

[andip]

Hi,

Im using the radeon-drivers (cause fglrx cannot be made to not crash if i try to restart xdm/x or use xtrl+alt+f#), and trying to get xinerama working on my lcd-monitor and plasma-tv.

Im not experienced in this stuff, but i followed a handbook-howto to the best of my ability, and cannot make it work.
if i use xorgcfg to configure x, both screens work, but have the same pic. with xinerama enabled, X crashes.

here are some pasted files :
Xorg.conf : http://rafb.net/p/DkUwva89.html
Xorg.0.log : http://rafb.net/p/uprtZw21.html

[flacvest]

Hi andip,

You appear to be lacking Modes in your xorg.conf. MY HDTV/Monitor is an LCD affair with a native resolution of "1280x720"


My xorg.conf looks like this for the important stuff:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DisplaySize 338 190
HorizSync 30.0 - 130.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"
Option "DPI" "96x96"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x720"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Perhaps that will be of some help, if not, then post a reply and I or others will lend a hand (I currently am going to an appointment) but will return this afternoon. I'd be glad to help, as X config was one of my main sticking points with Linux of any variety.

Best,

[Phlogiston]

Hi there,

I just unmasked the latest drivers and it installed without a hitch.

The latest drivers I saw were 8.501

Is there a fresher set?


My issues were with the xorg.conf, due to my odd display, an 1280x720 dpi HDTV with DVI

Although, now I've done something "interesting" to my installation, and messed something up when unmerging and re-emerging xorg and ati-drivers. phooey on me.

You shouldn't any unusual problems installing the unmasked 8.501 drivers that I'm aware of.

Best of luck to you!

You mix things up, IMHO this thread is about the ati radeon driver not the fglrx.

[VinzC]

EDIT: [topic=722855]New thread[/topic] created.

[Sethiel]

Hi all,
forgive me if I'm spamming but I really need to solve this problem and I think I just found the proper thread to post it. So I copy what I wrote elsewhere:

I have Radeon Mobility Xpress 200M and I managed to get fglrx working. Here's the situation:

1) radeonfb + fglrx works, but seems to have some kind of bad memory mapping. When I run any accelerated application (sdl+opengl project, mplayer with -vo gl2), it's working, but it reports SIGSEGV when I quit the application. Also, with mplayer, sometimes the movie plays with bad sound with a lot of speaker sounds, then I quit it and run again and it works fine.
IMPORTANT: When I run lspci -vv, it says the driver kernel's using is radeon_fb (or something like that). Dirrect rendering IS WORKING.

2) vesafb + fglrx does pretty much the same and framebuffer in console is not working at all (this might be different mistake, some kernel config or that stuff). lspci -vv reports fglrx driver and rendering seems to work a bit faster.

Now, I'd really like to have working framebuffer console AND completely working X accelerated rendering. Any ideas what I should try or do? Would be most appreciated.

[Snake]

I am trying to get dynamicClock to work on my radeon mobility but I am stuck.
I am using fglrx and dynamic clock is enabled in xorg.conf and built in kernel.

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radeonfb: Dynamic Clock Power Management enabled

But Xorg.0.log says that it is not used. What should I do?

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(WW) fglrx(0): Option "DynamicClocks" is not used

[VinzC]

Advice: drop fglrx and try xf86-video-ati .

Wrong thread. This is about freedesktop drivers for ATI video cards, e.g. xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-radeonhd.

[BeteNoire]

I have X200M card. After bunch of problems lately with non compatible kernel versions/xorg versions/ati-drivers versions I gave another try to open source driver.

It's working fine except... changing to tty. I don't get my terminals, instead screen goes white with thin, horizontal, shivering stripes. Sometimes vertical colored one pixel stripes occur. I thought it is caused by framebuffer - was using uvesafb or radeonfb - disabling any framebuffer in grub did not help. Now i have just vesafb compiled in kernel but didn't enable it via bootloader.

Here is my X config.

Any clues?

[dE_logics]

The only solution IMO is to quit using ATI chips...man this is worst!! This is my first ATI card...and I'm having such a bad time with it!...not even in Linux...in windows also!

Blenders slows extremely in windows (it's faster in Linux with the broken drivers), the Windows drivers are NOT available even on AMD's site and only available on Dell's site. Dell actually provided corrupt Vista drivers in their websites so I was stuck with XP. I don't remember, but the same drivers worked with Windows 7 also and then I finally switch to Linux (I switched late cause of the driver issue, which I thought was fixed but later realized it was not the case and till then it was too late...I was a Linux addict). All this happened in a span of 2 to 3 years.

Verdict -- ATI SUCKS!! I cant believe I actually favored ATI 3 to 4 years ago!

[ilborg]

Damn these Radeon cards. Having experimental drivers and still haven't got everything quite working. Initially I switched to open source driver when there was too much problems with fglrx driver. problem has been that closed drivers haven't been compatible with latest xorg and kernel.

There is problems in stellarium with mesa 7.8. Triangles in menus and fonts are something like triangles too. Ufo-ai seems to work nicely so it can be that is problem with stellarium/qt. Now I'm trying to get working 32-bit opengl drivers for wine. Seems that VirtualBox would like 32-bit drivers too for 3d.

[ilborg]

After installing this opengl multilib package it seems that opengl works with software because steam works quite slowly. Wine(32-bit) needs 32-bit opengl libraries and that seems to be pain in the ass.

Does the 32-bit opengl package need some specific 64-bit video driver for it to work? Is the (32-bit)libraries just too old for bleeding edge 64-bit display drivers. If so, what it would need to get working 32-bit opengl libraries?