hello,

i have installed debian etch and i'm having a hard time getting my 3daccel runnin with my ati card

i did this:
#sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.29.6.run --buildpkg Debian/etch
#dpgk -i fglrx-*.deb
#module-assistant prepare
#module-assistant update
#module-assistant a-i fglrx
#aticonfig --initial
#reboot

i got this:
a black screen ... actually this is not precise: 'cause if i blind-type the following:
root
<root_passwd>
reboot
the system is actually rebooting

my guess is:
the monitor is not used, something is not set right in my xorg.conf

i would appreciate any help, thanx

here is my xorg.conf:

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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "SyncMaster"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
Monitor "SyncMaster"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Insert the bold line in the fglrx Section (although that is a rather unusual BusID). Comment out the ati section entirely.

Go to single user mode, and as root ... modprobe -v fglrx, reboot

If that doesn't work, post the output of lsmod.

i've tried what u told me but it didn.t work (i already tried that befor)

here is what i did (in single urs mod):
--->add line u told me
--->#modprobe -v fglrx > file
--->#reboot

the output is:
--->filestdout)
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17-2-486/misc/fglrx.ko
--->screensdterr)
[flgrx] maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers 432 MBytes
[fglrx] module loade fglrx 8.29.6 [Sept 19 2006] on mirror 0
(i don't think this is actually an error ... it doesn't sound much licke one)

i still get the monitor unpowered ( blackscreen )

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one more thing:
if i change
Driver "fglrx"
with
Driver "ati"
everything is going fine , that is gdm is loading properly with 2d-accel
so my seconf guess is: something is rotten with the fglrx-driver
(could it be the refresh-rate?)

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ps. here is the output u asked me for #lsmod

Module Size Used by
radeon 98720 1
drm 59924 2 radeon
ipv6 211424 10
ppdev 8452 0
lp 10692 0
button 6544 0
ac 4868 0
battery 9220 0
sk98lin 130272 0
dm_snapshot 15772 0
dm_mirror 17616 0
dm_mod 48696 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
sbp2 20232 0
loop 13832 0
snd_seq_dummy 3844 0
snd_seq_oss 27392 0
snd_seq_midi 8096 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6656 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 42576 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
tsdev 7360 0
mousedev 10400 1
shpchp 33816 0
pci_hotplug 26420 1 shpchp
snd_via82xx_modem 13704 0
snd_via82xx 25240 1
gameport 13448 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec 82336 2 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35616 0
snd_mixer_oss 15616 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 71432 4 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 19716 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 6912 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 21792 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7692 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 45668 14 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,s nd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
8250_pnp 8704 0
snd_page_alloc 9480 3 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
parport_pc 31524 1
parport 31944 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
soundcore 8800 1 snd
psmouse 34184 0
serio_raw 6276 0
i2c_viapro 8084 0
i2c_core 19216 1 i2c_viapro
eth1394 17412 0
evdev 8960 1
amd64_agp 11844 1
agpgart 29232 2 drm,amd64_agp
rtc 11444 0
floppy 52868 0
pcspkr 2816 0
reiserfs 210176 1
sd_mod 18448 3
ide_cd 35104 0
cdrom 32288 1 ide_cd
generic 4356 0 [permanent]
sata_via 8324 2
sata_promise 10756 0
via82cxxx 8324 0 [permanent]
ide_core 107940 3 ide_cd,generic,via82cxxx
ohci1394 29488 0
ieee1394 84536 3 sbp2,eth1394,ohci1394
libata 60300 2 sata_via,sata_promise
scsi_mod 120840 3 sbp2,sd_mod,libata
skge 33040 0
uhci_hcd 19464 0
ehci_hcd 26888 0
usbcore 108544 3 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
thermal 12680 0
processor 21440 1 thermal
fan 4484 0

These lines indicate that you are loading the Xorg ati drivers rather than the fglrx ones. After the modprobe -v fglrx command, you should see a message saying the module was successfully inserted. I don't know why you're using the > file part of the statement. I have been installing the Debian ati driver on a number of computers recently with no problems at all. Before that, I was using the ones from the ATI site with no problems recently.

Here is the beginning to end procedure I use. Maybe it'll give you some ideas. I especially thing you should be using Xorg version 7.1

silly me i listed the wrong modul-list

here is the list after adding the fglrx with modprobe -v fglrx

-------------------
Module Size Used by
fglrx 395180 0
sk98lin 130272 0
dm_snapshot 15772 0
dm_mirror 17616 0
dm_mod 48696 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
sbp2 20232 0
loop 13832 0
snd_seq_dummy 3844 0
snd_seq_oss 27392 0
snd_seq_midi 8096 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6656 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 42576 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
tsdev 7360 0
mousedev 10400 0
shpchp 33816 0
pci_hotplug 26420 1 shpchp
snd_via82xx 25240 0
gameport 13448 1 snd_via82xx
snd_via82xx_modem 13704 0
snd_ac97_codec 82336 2 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem
snd_ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35616 0
snd_mixer_oss 15616 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 71432 4 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 19716 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 6912 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 21792 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7692 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
i2c_viapro 8084 0
i2c_core 19216 1 i2c_viapro
snd 45668 12 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,s nd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8800 1 snd
rtc 11444 0
parport_pc 31524 0
parport 31944 1 parport_pc
eth1394 17412 0
floppy 52868 0
snd_page_alloc 9480 3 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_pcm
8250_pnp 8704 0
amd64_agp 11844 1
agpgart 29232 2 fglrx,amd64_agp
psmouse 34184 0
serio_raw 6276 0
evdev 8960 0
pcspkr 2816 0
reiserfs 210176 1
sd_mod 18448 3
ide_cd 35104 0
cdrom 32288 1 ide_cd
generic 4356 0 [permanent]
sata_via 8324 2
via82cxxx 8324 0 [permanent]
ide_core 107940 3 ide_cd,generic,via82cxxx
sata_promise 10756 0
ohci1394 29488 0
ieee1394 84536 3 sbp2,eth1394,ohci1394
libata 60300 2 sata_via,sata_promise
scsi_mod 120840 3 sbp2,sd_mod,libata
skge 33040 0
uhci_hcd 19464 0
ehci_hcd 26888 0
usbcore 108544 3 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
thermal 12680 0
processor 21440 1 thermal
fan 4484 0