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When I logon the display setting is at 1920X1440 @ 61Hz.
I've tried to change the settings in Gnome Deskshop and every time I choose what ever setting I get logged out when it restarts the xserver and when I get back in its the same setting as before. the settings in xorg.conf only goes up to 1280x1024 so I dont know where 1920x1440 even is coming from. this happened after I installed ATIs driver from ati.com. xorg.conf dont show any traces of the ati driver. it still uses vesa for all i can see. the driver wasn't installed correctly though.
Code:
# aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf Uninitialised file found, configuring.
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-0
Segmenteringsfel
What does segmenterror mean?
I've checked the Xorg.o.log, but nothing odd catches my eye, though I dont know what to look for except some kind of error messages.
Any ideas where I should start would be greatly appreciated. the only idea i have is to try and install aticonfig with a sett screen setting like this:
I was thinking of changing my "Section Device" to(below), but I though aticonfig made this changes by it self during the driver installation if everything whent as it should. Tried to modprobe fglrx but the module cant be found. I ran the ati-fglrx.sh script which adds /usr/lib/xorg and /usr/lib/dri to my library path if it already doesn't exist. And libfglrx_dm.so.1.0 and more libs are found there. Not 100% sure if thats what the script does but thats what I belive it does. Correct me if Im wrong.
Might put in the xorg.conf
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"# [?]do I have it at[1]
Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"#do I need this?
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"# whats this?
Parts of the ati drivers was installed though, I can see ATI Catalyst Control Center in the Gnome Program Meny. it wont start though, cant find anything in xorg.0.log. or in messages about whats wrong. Ever time I run aticonfig it always end this segmenterror, what does that mean?
Does ATI have it's own log some where?
I did run:
aticonfig --resolution=0,1600x1200,1280x1024,1024x768
The screen got better but I'm stuck with 1024x768 even though Gnome tells me its 1280x1024.
Thanks GrapefruiTgirl for taking you're time trying to help me out. Let me know if you, or any one else for that mather, need any more info. Whould me nice with 3D acceleration.
Things would be easier to figure out if you had posted the whole file. But, from what I see there, your AGP card (The ATI I presume) is being powered by the VESA driver.
That is definitely no good, and definitely won't give you 3D accel..
How about editing your above post, and replacing it with the whole file, in the [CODE] tags.
Then we can have a decent look. See, the problem usually when ati-config is used, it it tends to ADD a bunch of stuff to the existing file, but doesn't bother editing or removing anything, so the file ends up --- well, screwy.
Also, in a console just to be 100% certain of things, do the command 'lspci' and note the BusID of your card. it should be PCI:1:0:0 like it is in the file.
Last edited by GrapefruiTgirl; 04-29-2007 at 07:45 PM.
I'd just like to add that it is generally a very bad idea to follow the instructions from ATI if you want to install that driver on Debian. Is that what you did?
btw, you posted the wrong xorg.conf: the xorg.original (whatever it's called) is a back-up ofthe original xorg.conf, i.e. the file as it existed before you installed the driver.
I second the motion by Jay73.. The ATI-config does not seem to do a good job, regardless of distro, from what I have seen. And yes, make sure we get the xorg.conf that you are trying to use right now, since the ati-config.
I dont know what the next step should be? I have located fglrx, and it is in a proper location, but I cant modprobe it. Is xorg.conf.original-0 a backup ati made or is it the one the x-server use? I would belive it's the one in use because thats the only xorg.conf type of file there is in X11 directory. But at the same time, did the ati drivers create new links for xorg.conf.original-0? I though xorg.conf was static.
Under the Device section, change the driver from 'VESA' to 'fglrx'. You don't need to modprobe this thing; the X server loads the module for you when it starts X.
Let us know what happens when you change that driver. If all else is well, there should be a nice change
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