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Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)



On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:19:38 -0700
Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> ...
> > 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?
> 
>    I removed drm from kernel and now the module is loaded:
> 
> jojda:/home/erik# lsmod | grep fglrx
> fglrx                 462048  -
> 
>    and even xorg log indicates that everything works, at least I
> think that's what this message means:
> 
> (II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!
> 
>    but it's still not working, fglrxinfo says:
> 
> 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 6.4.1)
> 
>    any ideas?
> 
> 	erik
> 
> 

Do you load the GLcore module explicitly in the "Module" section
of xorg.conf? If so then remove that line.

-- 

Liam



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