[Solved] updated problem, xinerama problem

[Ichika]

Hi guys,

I have this error when I try to configure Xorg with

[NathanZachary]

With the current versions of X, you don't need to configure xorg.conf. You will only need to mention your ATi card for 3D support. Firstly, you need to emerge a window manager or desktop environment, as TWM is no longer included by default.
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[Ichika]

[NathanZachary]

Ah, are you wanting to use the open-source drivers, or the "official" closed-source ones provided by ATi? If you want the closed-source ones, you will need to change your /etc/make.conf to:

[Ichika]

I can't do that. I'm not playing video games with Gentoo so I can easily work with the free ones. I have the latest Xorg too so I can't install the closed ones and I don't really want to downgrade Xorg to install closed drivers.

I installed xorg-x11 with "hal" in USE, apparently that is a condition to avoid the error message I got but still not working. How can I see if Xorg has been compiled with Hal ?

I just know that hald is running, I moved the fdi policy in the correct folder like the doc said (my computer is recent : < 2 months).

I really don't know what to do because I installed Gentoo in a virtual machine at first and when I got everything working, I decided to install it properly on my computer but apparently, I must have did something wrong, just don't know what.

Thanks for you help anyway.

[Ichika]

Really no one to help ? I really don't know what to do.

If I do startx, I have the error "No screen found". If I do Xorg -configure (or X -configure), I have "No devices to configure. Configuration failed.".

Maybe I removed something in the kernel config but ATI Radeon is in the kernel conf (hd 5850).

Thank you.

[VoidMage]

Is there anything more in xorg log when run 'Xorg -configure' ?

[Ichika]

[jasn]

I have the Radeon Mobility 5870 HD, in my Asus G73Jh, and I was able to get it working correctly with the 10.4 beta, fglrx, driver from ATI. When I tried the open source radeon driver, I noted that it didn't support the 5870 chipset yet, so configuring the in kernel driver, as you did, won't work yet. I too want to switch to the open source drivers, but support for the 5000 series GPU is coming in the future, so your choices today are to use something standard like the vesa driver, or use the closed source ATI fglrx driver.

Anyway, in this Gentoo forum thread, the subject of installing the 10.4 beta fglrx driver is discussed, and in my post here, I described in detail how I configured my kernel, xorg.conf, and installed both the 10.4 beta fglrx driver, as well as a patched xorg-server 1.8.0, (in order to work with the driver).

Good Luck..

[Ichika]

[Ichika]

Hi all,

I replaced "radeon" drivers with "vesa", I had to install fbdev and vesa drivers and I have others errors (like /dev/fb0 not round).

Anyway, thank you for your help I'm going to keep searching why it isn't working but my initial problem is solved.

Cya.

[jasn]

You also want to make sure that your kernel is configured for vesa support;

[Ichika]

EDIT :

point 1 is solved
point 2 is solved.
point 3 is solved but in my xorg.conf and ATI control center, I have 1920x1080 (while the other screen is 1280x1024) but not in KDE settings > display (for both screen, it's 1280x1024). How could I change that ? If I disable xinerama in the xorg.conf, it's okay but I can't use an extended desktop.

So, I might need some help for point 3. Thank you, it's my last problem.

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Hi again,

I finally get my kde environement working with ati drivers directly downloaded from the ati website but I have some questions.

how can I get my tty access back ?

because if i do *ctrl + alt + f1, f2...*, nothings happens. I can just restart X with ctrl + alt + bksp

For information, I could get access to tty when I used vesa drivers, I just can't since I installed the new drivers.

thank you for your help

I have other problems like

1) apparently I don't have accel even if I have closed ati drivers (gonna check in the kernel conf when I get my tty back)
2) can change user with su, will try to use "gpasswd -a myuser wheel", apparently, it's the group to be added to be able to become root with su (but if I correclty remember, wheel wasn't a correct group when I installed)
3) how can I configure my dual screen (first one is a 23" with 1920x1080 and second one with 1280x1024), I suppose it's in the ATI control center but I can't access since I can't get root privileges with my user on KDE (because of point 2)

So if anyone can help me with my first problem (tty), I think I'm gonna be able to fix the others.

Thank you.

[Ichika]

Hi,

it's my last problem to have a good system.

My problem is Xinerama.

I have the closed drivers 10.4 from ati website (not from the source, in fact, I have blocked the ati sources with portage/packages.blocked because I have xorg 1.7.6).

My USE has xinerama and xorg-server is compiled with that.

I have two screen

1) samsung syncmaster P2370 with native resolution 1920x1080
2) Iiyama ProLite E435S (1280x1024)

If I use the ATI Control Center

I can set options all right so :

dual screen with xinerama. After that, I had to reboot, what I did... but I only have the left screen in 1920x1080, I can move my mouse on the other one but it's a X and my desktop isn't extended. I checked the ATI control center and the options were back to Single Desktop.

If I force xinerama in the xorg.conf, I have an extended desktop BUT both screens have a 1280x1024 resolution and I don't want that.

Does someone know how to configure that to have an extended desktop with 1920x1080 for the first screen (left) and 1280x1024 on the second one (right) ?

I tried to configure that with xrandr but I have an error like : "extension randr missing on display".

Here are some informations that could help :

emerge --info =>

[Ichika]

Problem solved, it was a stupid mistake that I've done with aticonfig.