ATI Drivers Problem on Toshiba Laptop

mrmike503 · 10-19-2008, 11:16 AM

So I put CRUX successfully on this Toshiba Satellite L305-S5874 and got startx and some essential programs I use on here... However, I cannot seem to get my ATI Video Drivers compiled correctly. To be quite honest, I have no idea how X even started, since it refused to without the drivers. I ran the latest ATI drivers, and I still get the great "direct rendering: no" and have no actual driver specified on xorg.conf

Video Card:
ATI Radeon 3100

OS:
CRUX Linux

xorg.conf "Device" section:

Code:

Section "Device"

        # unsupported card
    #VideoRam    524288
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
        Identifier  "ati"
        Driver      "vga"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
        Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

I'm not even sure if the first "device" counts, but i put it there anyway incase it may. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks ahead of time!

irishbitte · 10-24-2008, 04:58 PM

Try commenting out the first section, reboot, and see if it works. If not, then try this:

Code:

Section "Device"

    # unsupported card
    #VideoRam    524288
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
    Identifier  "ati"
    Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

amani · 10-24-2008, 06:25 PM

You seem to have messed up your xorg.conf
There is a nuisance set of lines that you must remove.

Apparently two different utilities have done that...fglrx wrote one set and ..

Do not use vesa

How new is the X-org in CRUX?

All of radeonhd, radeon and fglrx should work.