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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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