hello

i just installed my slackware 9.1 with kernel 2.4.22, startx worked but the refresh rate was very bad, i used xf86config and now startx wont work.

messages:

(ww) radeon: no matching device section for instance (busid pci:1:0:1) found

(ee) no devices detected.

i have a ati radeon 9600xt 128 megabytes and a lge studioworks 700s monitor.

thanks

The error message you're seeing, believe it or not, isn't actually an error message. All it is is stating is that there is no monitor connected to the second output (usually TV) on your graphics card. Firstly, are you using the official ATI drivers? You wont get an accelerated output from X unless you're using the official drivers. You can get 2d acceleration using DRI but the official drivers are better.

Darrell

thanks

x won't start because of that? great

well, im a newbie, i didn't use any drivers, tell me, where can i find them and how will i install them.

thanks!

No it's not that X wont start because of that. X will start because of that. What I'm saying is that it's not that that's the problem. The first thing you need to do is download and install the latest version of RPM for Slackware because the one in 9.1 is corrupt so download the following...

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...2.1-i486-2.tgz

and as root run "installpkg rpm-4.2.1-i486-2.tgz"

Then you need to download the ATI drivers. So download the following...

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fg...3.7.6.i386.rpm

and as root run "rpm -ivh fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm"

Now the drivers are installed. All you have to do now is run "fglrxconfig" as root so that it configures your X server and once that's done everything should run fine.

Darrell

many thanks!

i get lots of error's when i "rpm -ivh fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm"

error: failed dependencies

/bin/sh is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
id-linux.so.2 is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libx11.so.6 is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
...
...
...

many others, do i need to list them?

Ooh yeah sorry I forgot. The RPM database in Slackware doesn't work with the source that's installed so the command you want to run is...

fglrx -ivh --nodeps fglrx.....

Darrell

hello


errr why doesn't it just go right? i that... it asked lots of questions and then when i start x it won't start and gives me many messages, i got a .log but i think its too big to post here

How do you mean "why doesn't it just go right?" and what gives you the error message? Exactly what have you done? You havn't explained what the problem is. Did you manage to install the drivers ok and run fglrxconfig?

thaks for your time!

i got a .log i can send it if you tell me your email address

Send it to darrell at dunmanifestin dot co dot uk.

can you read it? what do you think

I can't really see much from that to be honest. Can you send me your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and I'll have a look at it for you.

Darrell

i will send it to you now... but it looks bad like the other file.

it works now with the file you sent me!

but there's a problem, when i exit x, the mouse cursor will stay in the top of the screen and will not move, if i move my mouse the command line starts acting strange like if i was doing things.

many thanks for your time, how will i configure my system if i have to re-install?

thanks

Basically, the all I did was configure your XF86Config file so it was more or less the same as mine. All you must have done is answered some questions incorrectly when you ran fglrxconfig.

When you say the mouse stays in the top right does X actually quit correctly? Or do you have to switch to TTY1 to see the command line jibberish? Try doing this command as root (when you're not in X)...

cat /dev/mouse

And then move the mouse. Is that the output you're getting?

Darrell