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vitoriung
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 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: fglrx driver causes blackscreen |
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Hi,
need to help with my ATI Radeon9600pro working in X
I have Xfree server and DRM compiled from kernel as module, tried to use emerged x11-drm with no difference,
I emerged ATI drivers 8.xx.xx (fgrlx module)
startx goes to the blackscreen, access to system only with ssh from another computer, where I can see this logs...
Trouble seems to be seen in dmesg:
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fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1412 MBytes.
[fglrx] USWC is disabled in module parameters
[fglrx] PAT is disabled!
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.40.4 [Jul 31 2007] on minor 0
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modules.autoload- | Code: |
intel-agp
agpgart
ati-agp
fglrx
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part of Xorg log: | Code: |
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80cc1a4]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so [0xb79d17ab]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(DALCWDDE+0x1a2) [0xb79cff02]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(swlDalHelperAddCustomizeMode+0x1a1) [0xb79680b1]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxPreInit+0xbba) [0xb793ee6a]
6: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0x9a1) [0x809fec1]
7: /usr/bin/X(main+0x27b) [0x806e3ab]
8: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb7c8f838]
9: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806d8e1]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
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Where to look to find a trouble?
Thanks
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Roman_Gruber
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I think you need radeon from xorg.
Remove fglrx and replace it in /etc/make.conf with Video_cards="radeon" or so. |
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aidanjt
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| tw04l124 wrote: | Hi
I think you need radeon from xorg.
Remove fglrx and replace it in /etc/make.conf with Video_cards="radeon" or so. |
Indeed, fglrx are awful drivers, the opensource drivers are much more stable and support the 9600 very well, you'll trade a few FPS for their use, but it's well worth it and they'll still run most OpenGL games fine.
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aidanjt
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| yoshi314 wrote: | | Quote: | | Indeed, fglrx are awful drivers |
we'll see about that in a few days  |
ATi would be hard pressed to churn out something worse than "awful", but I could be wrong.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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| ilm2 wrote: | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=821&num=1
check out the benchmark articles too,
they will be available somewhere this/next week or smth |
| Quote: | | For months now Linux users have been battered with driver releases that have really equated to be nothing more than maintenance releases. |
Don't they mean 'for years'?.. It looks nothing more than a fanboi piece. Performance of the drivers were never an issue, in fact I couldn't care less if the Linux drivers were 10 times slower than the Windows version as long as they work. They are a pile of unstable, system killing, load of garbage, that's what the problem is, and there's hundreds of fglrx problem threads throughout these forums alone to illustrate the fact.
It'll be at least a year and a half or maybe two before I'm in the market for another GPU, if AMD's drivers promise to be stable I may go for one of their cards, I've been burnt by ATi cards far more times than I care to admit, and I wont make the same mistake again. If AMD is as committed to opensource platforms as they claim, then it's a good thing, but it'll take some time for them to get to a good position to deliver that, given the company's problems of late.
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ilm2
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Don't they mean 'for years'?.. It looks nothing more than a fanboi piece. Performance of the drivers were never an issue, in fact I couldn't care less if the Linux drivers were 10 times slower than the Windows version as long as they work. They are a pile of unstable, system killing, load of garbage, that's what the problem is, and there's hundreds of fglrx problem threads throughout these forums alone to illustrate the fact. |
true, sometimes i get the same feeling of fanboyism  the problem existed for years. but there is supposed to be a new codebase (same as windows someone said) which would improve development rate and allows features to be added more rapidly in a non-hackish way (aigrlx next month). |
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vitoriung
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't checked my post quiet long time, because I sorted out by myslelf...
tried to install new kernel 2.6.22 r3, uninstalled flgrx driver, x11-drm,
and installed modular support for radeon, Xfree server in kernel and it works!
Even further I got 3d acceleration!
Only thing I dont understand is that I have direct rendering in my profile only, I created another profile, using them both in the same time, but in another it does not work!
If I try - eselect opengl list-
[1] xorg-x11 *
nothing else
I would expect -
[1] radeon *
[2] xorg-x11
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aidanjt
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| vitoriung wrote: | I haven't checked my post quiet long time, because I sorted out by myslelf...
tried to install new kernel 2.6.22 r3, uninstalled flgrx driver, x11-drm,
and installed modular support for radeon, Xfree server in kernel and it works!
Even further I got 3d acceleration!
Only thing I dont understand is that I have direct rendering in my profile only, I created another profile, using them both in the same time, but in another it does not work!
If I try - eselect opengl list-
[1] xorg-x11 *
nothing else
I would expect -
[1] radeon *
[2] xorg-x11
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Nope, x11 mesa handles opengl with the opensource drivers. The other opengl profiles are for fglrx & nvidia's closed source opengl implimentations.
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vitoriung
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| sorry but I don't understand what are you trying to say me |
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