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Re: fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem



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Hi Inko,

thanks for the advice. Could you point me to a how-to for installation
of xgl + compiz (preferrebly + KDE) on Debian? I found some repository,
but nothing useful. How did you install those?

	Cheers,
	Ivan

Inko IA wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> As far as I know, the official fglrx drivers doesn't allow composite.
> 
> I have an Ati mobility radeon X700 and I didn't manage to activate
> composite with those drivers. BUT, on january, debian released new
> mesa glx and dri packages which supports 3D hardware acceleration for
> my card, and allows composite. Compiz-xgl works fine, I haven't try
> beryl.
> The section device is like this in my case:
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Ati Mobility Radeon X700"
>         Driver          "radeon"
>        Option       "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,AUTO" #Without this I only
> see a blank screen, I think it's because of the screen size... not
> sure
> 
> 
> Try the free drivers.
> 
> Greetings!
> 
>                                                  -Inko-
> 
> 
> 
> 2007/2/15, Ivan Glushkov <glushkov@mail.desy.de>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was running happily Debian Unstable for 3 years, when finally my hard
>> drive died, and I had to install Debian from scratch. I want to install
>> beryl
>>
>> http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install/Debian
>>
>> Very nice outlook which obviously requires 3D acceleration and (as
>> outlined on the page above) the
>> option:
>>
>> Section "Extensions"
>>   Option "Composite" "Enable"
>> EndSection
>>
>> I tried kernels 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 with the latest ati drivers (8.33.6-1)
>> and the ones included in Debian (2.28.8). In a short what I did is:
>>
>> # ln -sf bash /bin/sh
>> # bash ./ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run  --buildpkg
>> Debian/unstable
>> # dpkg -i *.deb
>> # cd /usr/src
>> # tar -jxvf fglrx.tar.bz2
>> # cd /usr/src/modules/fglrx/
>> # module-assistant prepare
>> # module-assistant a-i fglrx
>> restarting x...
>>
>> ===> kernel 2.6.20 (with both driver versions), the module cannot
>> compile at all, complaining about
>>
>> .....
>> /usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:198: error: expected declaration
>> specifiers or \u2018...\u2019 before \u2018mlock\u2019
>> /usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:198: error: expected declaration
>> specifiers or \u2018...\u2019 before \u2018addr\u2019 ...
>> ......
>>
>> ===> kernel 2.6.19 (with both driver versions), 3D acceleration works if
>>
>> Section "Extensions"
>>   Option "Composite" "Disable"
>> EndSection
>>
>> But if I enable it I get:
>>
>> % fglrxinfo
>> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
>> display: :0.0  screen: 0
>> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
>> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
>> OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)
>>
>> % glxgears
>> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
>>
>>
>> Any idea how to solve this? Nothing useful in google..
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Ivan
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