[SOLVED] ATI Drivers problems

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EdRiZzLe · Post by **EdRiZzLe** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:43 pm

More wonderful problems...

/opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo

When I run that it says

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Error: unable to open display :0

I've configured xorg.conf about 10 different times now.
Specs:
ATI Radeon XT1800 512MB
I set the driver for the card to "fglrx" and when I try startx it says (EE) No drivers found

Help!
Thanks, EdRiZzLe.

iphands · Post by **iphands** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:01 pm

EdRiZzLe wrote:More wonderful problems...
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/opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo
When I run that it says
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Error: unable to open display :0
I've configured xorg.conf about 10 different times now.
Specs:
ATI Radeon XT1800 512MB
I set the driver for the card to "fglrx" and when I try startx it says (EE) No drivers found

Help!
Thanks, EdRiZzLe.

More info needed.... Did you install the ati closed source drivers?

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emerge -p ati-drivers

or even better add
VIDEO_CARDS="vesa ati fglrx"
to your make.conf and then emerge -NDu world or emerge -1 xorg-server
(this should pick it up as a dependency)

you need to insert a module into the kern most likely..
I dont use ati closed source so im not sure the exact name, but id bet its:

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modprobe fglrx

Don't for get to add the module to autoload on boot (assuming a 2.6 kern)

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echo "NAME OF MODULE" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

Hope this helps

EdRiZzLe · Post by **EdRiZzLe** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:51 pm

Hm, still getting the same error. This is the graphics section of my xorg.conf

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Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"

    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
	Identifier  "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
	Driver      "radeon"
	Card        "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
	VideoRam    512000
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen 1"
	Device     "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
	Monitor    "Samsung SyncMaster 713v"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection

Do you see anything I should change? I emerged -1 xorg-server and added the fglrx module to startup. Also added VIDEO_CARDS="vesa ati fglrx" to the make.conf. Still getting the same error

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(EE) No drivers installed

And when I run /opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo it says unable to open display.
Any suggestions?

iphands · Post by **iphands** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:21 pm

EdRiZzLe wrote:Do you see anything I should change? I emerged -1 xorg-server and added the fglrx module to startup. Also added VIDEO_CARDS="vesa ati fglrx" to the make.conf. Still getting the same error
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(EE) No drivers installed
And when I run /opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo it says unable to open display.
Any suggestions?

Wait... not in that order right? adding the line in your make.conf should proceed rebuilding Xserver (it basically causes ati-drivers to be a dependency of X).

Did you check and see if ati-drivers is intalled (emerge -p ati-drivers)?
And adding a module to modules.autoload will cause it to be loaded at boot but does not cause it to be loaded if you are already up... Thats what modprobe is for.

If in fact ati-drivers is installed could you post the relevant output of

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X -verbose 255

not the whole thing though... just any errors (EE) you see. That should help show whats going on.

EdRiZzLe · Post by **EdRiZzLe** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:30 pm

No not in that order, I completed it in the order you listed. I modprobed before I added fglrx to the autoload file. And the output of

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X -verbose 255

is a bunch of (II) messages then

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(EE) No drivers available
Fatal server error:
No screens found

It finished the emerge -p ati-drivers and the output is

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[ebuild  R] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5

iphands · Post by **iphands** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:44 pm

EdRiZzLe wrote:

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Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"

    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
	Identifier  "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
	Driver      "radeon"
	Card        "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
	VideoRam    512000
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen 1"
	Device     "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
	Monitor    "Samsung SyncMaster 713v"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection

Uhh you don't have a valid monitor in your screen section.
You have: Monitor "Samsung SyncMaster 713v"
But your monitor is identified by: Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"

I'd do:

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Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"

    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
	Identifier  "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
	Driver      "radeon"
	Card        "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
	VideoRam    512000
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
	Monitor   "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection

I'm not sure why you had screen 1 (dual monitors?) but it be prettier if it was screen0 (if you have a single mon.)
If it gets too hairy you can always do:

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cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak && X -configure && cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And then re-edit it to fix anything!

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:50 pm

Your /etc/X11/xorg.conf have driver radeon, sauf your X.ORG server try to load the open source driver....

Change radeon to flgrx

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Section "Device"

    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
   Identifier  "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
   Driver      "radeon"
   Card        "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
   VideoRam    512000
EndSection

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Section "Device"

    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
   Identifier  "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
   Driver      "fglrx"
   Card        "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
   VideoRam    512000
EndSection

iphands · Post by **iphands** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:51 pm

d2_racing wrote:Your /etc/X11/xorg.conf have driver radeon, sauf your X.ORG server try to load the open source driver....

Change radeon to flgx

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Section "Device"

    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
   Identifier  "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
   Driver      "radeon"
   Card        "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
   VideoRam    512000
EndSection

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Section "Device"

    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
   Identifier  "Radeon XT1800 512MB"
   Driver      "fglx"
   Card        "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
   VideoRam    512000
EndSection

Oh and that

EdRiZzLe · Post by **EdRiZzLe** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:08 pm

Hey you hit it right on the head! IT WORKS! Now for the next problem lol just kidding.
Thanks alot

Deathwing00 · Post by **Deathwing00** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:32 pm

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.

EdRiZzLe · Post by **EdRiZzLe** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:36 pm

Well I just got finished emerging kde-base and it won't start. I tried /opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo to see what it would say and I got the following output...

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Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual!

BTW Xorg is working now, it starts up fine. It seems like I had a problem like this before last time I installed Gentoo but it was with nVIDIA. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with xorg.conf but i'm not positive. fglrx is loaded fine. Part of my xorg.conf is posted above. Do I need to give more detail?

Thanks again.
-EdRiZzLe

jseymour · Post by **jseymour** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:16 am

Have you done an "eselect opengl set ati" yet?

EdRiZzLe · Post by **EdRiZzLe** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:51 am

Yes I did that, and it is still giving me the same problem. I have Xorg running right now and when I startkde it says that the DCOPserver is not running? I'm not sure what that is. I still get

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual!

when I enter /opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo.

jseymour · Post by **jseymour** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:48 am

Does your module section in xorg.conf look similar to this?

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Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
# This loads the font modules
#    Load        "type1"
#    Load        "speedo"
# This loads the GLX module
#    Load       "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
#    Load       "dri"
	Load  "dbe"  	# Double buffer extension
	SubSection "extmod"
		Option	    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
	EndSubSection
	Load  "freetype"
#    Load        "xtt"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "glx"

EndSection

Notice the Load "dri" and Load "glx" at the bottom.

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:44 pm

EdRiZzLe wrote:Hey you hit it right on the head! IT WORKS! Now for the next problem lol just kidding.
Thanks alot

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EdRiZzLe · Post by **EdRiZzLe** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:33 pm

lol, I will look at that jseymour. Thanks for your feedback.
-EdRiZzLe

EdRiZzLe · Post by **EdRiZzLe** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:00 pm

Man, still nothing. Although this time when I run /opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo it only says

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Error: unable to open display :0

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