fglrx and Xfree 4.2.99

Flatop · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 6:41 pm Post subject: fglrx and Xfree 4.2.99

I emerged world yesterday and pulled down the new version of Xfree (4.2.99). Unfortunately, my X no longer works. I am running the ati drivers from their website (from November - 2.5.1 I think) and every time I try startx, I get

Fatal Server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

I did notice that if I emerge -p ati-drivers, xfree 4.2.1 is a prerequistie. Any chance that the ebuild will be updated to work with the new Xfree 4.2.99?

Is this happening to anyone else? Did anyone get this working yet?

mrgalihad · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 91

looking in /usr/portage/media-video/ati-drivers/ I see that ati-drivers-2.5.1-r1.ebuild has a requirement of xfree 4.2.99 so I would see if you could emerge that. It might fix your problems...

bonito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 80

I had a similar problem I believe...and if its the same as the problem you are having, do an xf86config again and then try again.

Flatop · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 1:27 pm Post subject:

This is very strange. I also looked at the ati-drivers-2.5.1-r1 ebuild, and noticed that it references xfree 4.2.99. However, when I emerge -p ati-drivers, it wants to install xfree 4.2.1-r2.

Tried to run XFconfig -configure, but drops out with a module confilict.

Gnufsh · Guru Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 400 Location: Portland, OR

I get the same sort of error:
(EE) fglrx(0): R200DRIScreenInit failed (DRI version = 4.1.0, expected 3

then the fatal server error.

Flatop · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 12:05 am Post subject:

I just emerged 4.2.99 at work and realized that there is a message after you emerge xfree. It says that there is an issue and you must unmerge ati-drivers and emerge xfree-drm.

I'll do that tonight and let you know. I'm still not sure what driver to use if I unmerge ati-drivers. I obviously cannot use fglrx. Maybe radeon will work.

Gnufsh · Guru Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 400 Location: Portland, OR

wel that's great. I never emerged ati-drivers, I installed 'em myself. so what driver do I have to tell it to use?

jagerman · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:22 am Post subject:

Flatop · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 2:51 am Post subject:

I'm lucky I have an 8500. I finally got X working (sort of).. The dislplay really doesn't fit my monitor - I'm running at 1600 x 1024 which used to work perfectly with the ATI drivers, but its a stretch for the radeon driver. Oh, and no GL. I get a paltry 100 FPS using glxgears. I used to get > 1000. At least it works

tr0nix · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 6:30 am Post subject: Doh

Mh.. this XFree is bleeding edge right? I just installed yesterday XFree 2.1 and the 9700pro-Driver. I get 4560 fps (pretty good I think ;-)

) on my 1.7ghz/512mb sdram Machine with glxgears.
Does an upgrade on 4.2.99 brings more than only problems with the driver?

BTW. since I didn't knew that there was an ebuild for the ATI-Driver I installed it manually (Version 2.5.1 for XFree 2.0) from the rpm with all the nasty error msgs