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Timothee
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 Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject: ATI drivers installs OK but does not work [solved] |
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Hi All,
I have installed the ATI drivers based on the how-to on gentoo-wiki. It seems the installation went fine but the openGL screensavers are not working. My system is gentoo 2006.0 kernel 2.6.16-r6
After install, the output of fglrxinfo looks good:
| Code: | # /opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X300/X550 Series Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5755 (8.24.8)
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There are however a few warnings in the X11 log but I don't know what to do with them:
| Code: | # grep -e EE -e WW Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" does not exist.
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): Specified desktop setup not supported: 8
(WW) fglrx(0): [drm] using DRM defaults (QS_ID=99000000)
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I don't understand why the BusID shows 1:0:1 in the warnings because my xorg.conf only references 1:0:0. Below are some portion of xorg.conf :
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Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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Oh, and in case this is useful, lspci returns the following for the card:
| Code: | # lspci
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
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What can I do from here?
Thanks in advance,
Tim.
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ImNotInsane
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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What you are seeing is normal -- its X looking through its defaults. By default it will look at PCI 1:0:1 and report that error, but it continues searching and finds everything. Are you having any specific problems such as games not working?
EDIT: Oh, the OpenGL screensavers are not working. Are you using XGL perhaps? I know with XGL the screensavers are not working for me as well (you have to get the screensavers to display on :0 instead of :1 if you have your XGL desktop running on :1, but I never figured out how to do this as I don't care much about screensavers. But let's say for instance, if I wanted to run a game like UT2004, I have to run UT2004 with "DISPLAY=:0 UT2004" to have 3D accel working). Maybe someone else has this working. If you are not running XGL, can you confirm other 3D games/apps are working without issue? |
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Timothee
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hi ImNotInsane,
Thanks for your reply. I'm not using XGL and the screen savers are the only thing I need openGL for (hehe, this may sound dumb but I really like my screensavers  ).
So is there anything else I can do?
Tim. |
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Timothee
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Location: Singapore
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:22 am Post subject: [solved] |
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I figured it out, I forgot to set up the use flag xscreensaver for kdeartwork-kscreensaver... Duh!
Without it only some openGL screensavers would show in kscreensaver selection panel and these were not working. After enabling the use flag and re-emerging kdeartwork-kscreensaver, my precious GLMatrix works and is kicking ass ! |
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