Need help with xf86-video-ati [SOLVED]

Snake · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 146

Hi,

I've just moved from perfectly working ati proprietary drivers to open source xf86-video-ati. Reason for moving are problems with newer kernels.
I've removed fglrx drivers from system and from make.conf and recompiled xorg.
Now I can't run glxinfo anymore, I get this message:

Sadako · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject:

Did you use eselect to switch to the libgl provided by mesa?

What does `ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so` return?
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poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject:

eselect opengl set xorg-x11

also, which card do you have?
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Snake · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 146

Sadako · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:53 pm Post subject:

Snake · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 146

In make.conf I have VIDEO_CARDS="vga radeon".
I've just recompiled mesa and everything is the same.
Folder /usr//lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ is empty

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Sadako · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject:

Could you post the output of `emerge -pv mesa xorg-server`?

Also, /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so belongs to x11-base/xorg-server, so perhaps try re-emerging that.
It's possible you needed to re-install mesa first, then xorg-server...
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DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5941

if the file doesn't exists, shouldn't it be in flashing red? did you ran revdep-rebuild?
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Snake · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 146

Yes it is flashing red. I've wrote that, but then deleted before posting :oops:

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Revdep-rebuild didn't do anything, now I am recompiling xorg.

Edit: at the end of compiling I got error, that libglx.so is already existing:
Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...ln: creating symbolic link `./libglx.so': File exists
!!! Error: Failed to create /lib/libglx.so
exiting

So I moved it and recompiled xorg. Now I get
!!! Error: Unrecognized option: (none)
exiting

Snake · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 146

Ok solved. I tried creating link by myself, but X didn't even boot, so I removed it and it didn't help, I was keep on returned to login screen. So I checked eselect opengl and it wasn't set, I couldn't set it because libglx.so link was already existing, so I had to remove it and set opengl to xorg and now it is working

. Kde4 desktop effects, which are my test if everything is ok are working.
Thanks for all the help.

pigeon768 · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 683

Run 'eselect opengl set xorg-x11', even if it already says it's set to xorg-x11. Among other things it will set the correct symlinks you need.

Snake · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 146

I did that, I was talking about eselect in previous post, when I wrote that it didn't work. I had to remove libglx.so link and run it again and then it worked.