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Well, that solution did work, but when i restarted my laptop,the black screen with a nonblinking cursor at the upper top left returned.
How can i make the changes permanent?
The reason I wanted them in the first place was the driver it's using (I don't know what it is using, I haven't figured out this new xorg.conf-less system) is acting strange. First I noticed it doesn't have OpenGL support, programs like the BlueMarble widget in KDE4 make this clear. Another problem is that after a while of using KDE4, whenever I open a new window (regardless of the program) my entire screen changes to something like inverted colors but worse picture quality, making it barely usable. However, when I close the new window, everything changes back to normal!
I tried using an xorg.conf with the 'radeon' and 'radeonhd' drivers and the same problems happen with both. I haven't tried using anything but KDE4, I'll see if the same color change thing happens in fluxbox and get back to you.
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I still don't have OpenGL support though.
The BlueMarble widget requires GLSL, as I recall, and that isn't supported with the open source drivers yet, however you should still have 3D acceleration. What is the output of 'glxinfo | grep -i renderer' ?
Well, that solution did work, but when i restarted my laptop,the black screen with a nonblinking cursor at the upper top left returned.
How can i make the changes permanent?
Maybe you have to block the automatic load of radeon and drm modules from startup..
Thank you very much, gusluke.
Thanks to you OpenGL now works fine with my Slackware64-13.0 installation on ASUS X53K series F3KA laptop (Radeon 2600 HD).
I also had some trouble finding unified drivers location (any link please?)
So here it is: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...x86.x86_64.run
Earlier I feared to look at ATI cards for Linux drivers reason. But now I see it works fine with Linux. Good to know that
@Bller: you might be having the problem I did with Slackware 12.2 if you compile in PAE 64G under the kernel options. Try recompiling with that set to 4G and see if it works.
Here's how I did it (just finished installing 64 bit today, accidentally grabbed the 32-bit version previously). Hopefully it will continue to work...
I recompiled the kernel like this:
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
cp /boot/config-generic-2-6-29 .config
make oldconfig
make menuconfig
general setup->local version -mine (my preference to keep the modules uncluttered between kernels)
processor type->K8 (I have an AMD processor)
File Systems->ext4 and ext3 built-in (so I won't need an initrd)
check under Bus Options that msi is enabled (saw this in this thread)
check under Processor Type that PAT is not enabled under mtrr (saw this in another thread)
make -j4
make modules_install
make install
change the links in /boot for System.map, config, and vmlinuz
update /etc/lilo.conf to add an entry for the new kernel
reboot, make sure everything comes up.
edit /etc/inittab, make sure it starts in run level 3.
reboot again so it unloads the open source drivers radeon and drm (not sure if there's any other modules that would conflict with fglrx, so I just reboot instead of rmmod)
at command prompt as root:
sh ati-driver-installer-9-8-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Slackware/All
installpkg fglrx-module*tgz fglrx-x740*tgz
aticonfig --initial
aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
init 4
running glxgears works, although I didn't see anything about Direct Rendering: yes in glxinfo or fglrxinfo output.
@Bller: you might be having the problem I did with Slackware 12.2 if you compile in PAE 64G under the kernel options. Try recompiling with that set to 4G and see if it works.
Here's how I did it (just finished installing 64 bit today, accidentally grabbed the 32-bit version previously). Hopefully it will continue to work...
I recompiled the kernel like this:
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
cp /boot/config-generic-2-6-29 .config
make oldconfig
make menuconfig
general setup->local version -mine (my preference to keep the modules uncluttered between kernels)
processor type->K8 (I have an AMD processor)
File Systems->ext4 and ext3 built-in (so I won't need an initrd)
check under Bus Options that msi is enabled (saw this in this thread)
check under Processor Type that PAT is not enabled under mtrr (saw this in another thread)
make -j4
make modules_install
make install
change the links in /boot for System.map, config, and vmlinuz
update /etc/lilo.conf to add an entry for the new kernel
reboot, make sure everything comes up.
edit /etc/inittab, make sure it starts in run level 3.
reboot again so it unloads the open source drivers radeon and drm (not sure if there's any other modules that would conflict with fglrx, so I just reboot instead of rmmod)
at command prompt as root:
sh ati-driver-installer-9-8-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Slackware/All
installpkg fglrx-module*tgz fglrx-x740*tgz
aticonfig --initial
aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
init 4
running glxgears works, although I didn't see anything about Direct Rendering: yes in glxinfo or fglrxinfo output.
Strange but i didn`t compile anything before.( Don`t really know what compiling really does :-s ). Is it necessary for the driver to work?
I was under the impression you recompiled the kernel. If not, then my suggestion won't help you as the stock 32-bit kernel has PAE set correctly. What happens when you try to install it with Slackware 32-bit?
I was under the impression you recompiled the kernel. If not, then my suggestion won't help you as the stock 32-bit kernel has PAE set correctly. What happens when you try to install it with Slackware 32-bit?
Well i didn`t really try, i`m afraid i`ll broke something again, and destroy my system.
all i had to do was just use the --buildpkg Slackware/All then install it with installpkg works just fine when i type startx it goes to the black screen for maybe a second or 2 then goes right into x
i both glxgears and fgl_glxgears work
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