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Morpheus_GT1
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 Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: Ati-drivers 8.32.5 & kdm restarting SOLVED |
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Hy @ all!
I've got problems with the new stable ati-drivers 8.32.5...
I'm using Gentoo-sources 2.6.19-r5 and kde-3.5.5...
I've updated my laptop a few days ago, and on restart I noticed that kdm was restarting over and over again...
I think this is related to the new ati-drivers that got installed on update.
When I boot my system, kdm starts for about 4 seconds with mouse and everything working, then dropping to black screen and presenting me the kdm login screen again... This goes on endlessly, so the only option i have is to CTRL+N out of kdm to login console and work on the bash with no KDE...
How can I get kdm working again with no crashes? I've tried reinstalling ati-drivers several times also the older 8.27.10-r1 which worked for me with old kernel version 2.6.16, but compile of old drivers fail... I also tried to reinstall kde-3.5.5 with no luck
I have a mobility radeon 9600 with 256MB
Any help would be appreciated, thx in advance...
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c0d3g33k
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I've been experiencing a similar problem. About a minute after reading your post (I was looking for a solution myself), I started making changes to xorg.conf out of desperation (this has been going on for well over a week).
Turns out the first change I made fixed the problem.
In the "Device" section for the ATI card (Driver = "fglrx"):
Original settings:
| Code: | # === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
Option "VideoOverlay" "off"
# === OpenGL Overlay ===
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "on"
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New settings:
| Code: | # === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
# === OpenGL Overlay ===
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
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Switching from OpenGLOverlay to VideoOverlay did the trick for me. Perhaps this is the cause of your problem as well. |
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Morpheus_GT1
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thx for your replie...
At the moment my laptop is recompiling whole KDE, that was the last thing i hadn't tried before...
If it finishes up and still doesn't work, I'll try your solution and post an answer...
thx again for your help,
->M_GT1 |
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c0d3g33k
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| That's what I spent all week doing - recompiling everything that could possibly be having an effect (KDE, QT, XOrg). None of that worked. Unless you really need KDE recompiled anyhow, I'd stop the build, make the edits to xorg.conf and see if that works. If not, I think you can still pick up where you left off by doing an "emerge --resume", so you don't lose your place in the recompile. |
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Morpheus_GT1
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thing is i first emerge -C the whole kde...  bad luck for me... 
So I let you know if that helped |
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Morpheus_GT1
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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SOLVED finally...
You were da*n right about the recompiling ... didn't help anything
So for now i switched to VideoOverlay as you suggested and that helped...
I also set:
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Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection
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in my xorg.conf, because I read on the net that the "fglrx" module doesn't support this mode. Setting this Option switches back to the old XGL mode, that works...
I also fixed some weird behaviour from wine, crashing my X Server when starting Warcraft III in fullscreen mode by setting:
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Section "Extensions"
Option "XVideo" "Enable"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
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Section "Device"
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Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
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EndSection
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in xorg.conf. The second Code Section with the UseFastTLS set to "2" starts the whole thing in some kind of compatibility mode, which lets the X Server resize the programs resolution to the one the X Server provides...
So thanks again a thousand times for your help... I'll have to go a little bit deeper into X.org Configuration...
greetz, ->M_GT1 |
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c0d3g33k
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| Morpheus_GT1 wrote: | SOLVED finally...
So thanks again a thousand times for your help... I'll have to go a little bit deeper into X.org Configuration...
greetz, ->M_GT1 |
My pleasure. I'm very glad I could help. |
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alphamaennchen
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:00 am Post subject: Had the same Problem... |
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... when I migrated from 8.29.6 to the latest version!
Thank you very much for posting this.
It solved my problem!
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