Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:16:15 -0700
Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to make ATI proprietary driver fglrx work with the
> latest xorg packages?
Yes. I have fglrx working with xorg and the stock Debian 686 kernel in
an up-to-date sid installation.
>
> I installed fglrx packages (build the kernel module etc.) but it
> doesn't seem to accept xorg 7:
>
> (II) fglrx(0): UMM Bus area: 0xd0acb000 (size=0x07535000)
> (II) fglrx(0): UMM area: 0xd0acb000 (size=0x07535000)
> (II) fglrx(0): driver needs X.org 6.8.x.y with x.y >= 99.8
> (II) fglrx(0): detected X.org 7.0.0.0
> (II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
> (II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
> (II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
> (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
> (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
> (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
> (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
> (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
> (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
>
> does it mean it's not going to work until ATI releases a new
> driver with support for xorg 7? Anybody had any success with the free
> driver (it has at least some 3D experimental features).
>
> relevant packages:
>
> ii fglrx-control 8.24.8-1
> ii fglrx-driver 8.24.8-1
> ii fglrx-driver-dev 8.24.8-1
> ii fglrx-kernel-2.6.15jojda 8.24.8-1+jojda.0
> ii fglrx-kernel-src 8.24.8-1
>
> ii xserver-xorg 7.0.22
>
> TIA,
>
> erik
>
>
The first thing you should do is ignore xorg and check whether the
fglrx kernel module can be loaded. What does 'modprobe fglrx' tell you?
--
Liam
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