Hey there am a bit of a newb but learn and follow directions very well so please bear with me.
I recently got a new dell studio 1558 with radeon hd 5470 video card. So far have had lot of small problems and such but been able to fix the via google and a lil luck but now I'm stumped with this one and decided to try and turn here for some possible help. Now on to the details.
Distro - Debian lenny with 2.6.33.3 custom kernel
propriatory lgrfx 10.4 drivers installed direct from ati (installed no problem)
after compiling the kernel and installing the drivers from ATI my card IS recognized and X will boot up with the proper resolution, but that's where all the problems start. I can no longer switch to virtual terminals (ctrl-alt-F1,F2,F3,F4 etc) and graphics performance in X is extremely poor due to the fact that 3D fails to initialize, and catalyst control fails to load (it tries to but then just disappears)
now for the little info I've been able to gather I hope it helps.
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep '(WW)'
Code:
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" does not exist.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Hasn't establisted DRM connection
(WW) fglrx(0): No DRM connection for driver fglrx.
(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): ********************************************* *
(WW) fglrx(0): Textured Video not supported without DRI enabled.
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep '(EE)'
Code:
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(EE) fglrx(0): Hasn't establisted DRM connection
(EE) fglrx(0): Hasn't establisted DRM connection
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized.
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.
fglrxinfo
Code:
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 132 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/etc/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "record"
Load "dbe"
Load "xtrap"
Load "GLcore"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
modprobe -v fglrx
Code:
FATAL: Module fglrx not found.
dpkg -l |grep fglrx
Code:
rc fglrx-atieventsd 1:8-12-4 external events daemon for the non-free AMD/
rc fglrx-control 1:8-12-4 control panel for the non-free AMD/ATI r5xx,
rc fglrx-driver 1:8-12-4 non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx, r7xx display dr
rc fglrx-glx 1:8-12-4 proprietary libGL for the non-free AMD/ATI r
rc fglrx-modules-2.6.26-2-686 2.6.26+8-12-2+lenny1 Display driver for AMD/ATI Radeon and FireGL
rc fglrx-modules-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem 2.6.26+8-12-2+lenny1 Display driver for AMD/ATI Radeon and FireGL
and that's about as far as I've gotten. At this point I'm at a complete loss and majority of google searches I've done have come up with very outdated information, or seperate problems.
On a side note before I installed Debian I has installed ubuntu lucid to test things out and video and everything seemed to work fine with minor tearing issues here and there. So it does seem to be entirely possible to run this car din X, just a matter of figuring out what I am doing wrong or where the problem exists.
Please let me know if there is any more additional info needed.