system-config-display problens

MTK358 · 12-03-2009, 12:08 PM

I got fed up with trying to get the proprietary Nvidia driver working, and I found out that the open-source radeonhd driver does 3D on some older models. I found an older radeon card (radeonhd supposelly should do 3D with its chipset) lying around, and I put in in my computer instead of the nvidia card.

I closed up the case, booted up, and did:

Code:

su
yum install *radeonhd*
yum install system-config-display
system-config-display

When the GUI came up, I chose radeonhd as the driver, 1280x1024 monitor, 1280x1024 dual head spanning desktops, and system-config-display spits out this error every time I press OK:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 211, in ok
    if card.getDescription() == self.secondVideocardOptionMenu.get_menu().get_active().get_data("NAME"):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_data'

What should I do?

EDIT: the GPU is a radeon HD2600

MTK358 · 12-03-2009, 12:52 PM

I found a place where it said how to make a dual head xorg.conf file, I did so, but when I run startx it says Fatal Error : No Screen Found.

MTK358 · 12-04-2009, 06:30 AM

I tried searching, but couldn't find anything. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong stuff.

But all I need is to have a dual-head (Xinerama probably) setup with radeonhd driver. Could anyone tell me how to do this?

MTK358 · 12-04-2009, 09:25 AM

I tried "system-config-display --noui --set-driver=radeonhd" and then restarted the X server, and this came up on my screen (see attachment)!

I hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, deleted xorg.conf, and ran startx again, and I got my desktop back. (but still no acceleration

)

Oh, and that little square which I labelled mouse pointer in the picture actually did move with the mouse!