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I know that most of you are bored by such threads but it's quite important for me. As far as I'm starting with Linux (a few days ago - exactly 4 ) I decided to post it at Newbie forum not Slackware.
So my config is Slackware 10 (Full CD install) with KDE ( I know Gnome is more adequate for Slack but KDE is easier for me . Kernel 2.4.26, X.org server (6.8.0 ? I don't know how to check :/ but it's just the one came with CD) and Ati driver fglrx-4.3.0-3.12.0.i386.rpm. Everything is working fine with it except of course hardware 3d acceleration. Last 2 days I was browsing LQ forums and I used Heema's solution:
Quote:
open terminal.
su
cd into directory containing the drivers you just downloaded
rpm2tgz fglrx****.rpm
installpkg fglrx****.tgz
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
sh make.sh
cd ..
sh make_install.sh
fglrxconfig
rename /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to xorg.conf (backup your xorg.conf first)
reboot or restart x server
open terminal
glxinfo it should say near the top direct rendering YES. (which means hardware opengl working)
No problems while doing instructions above but when I tried to startx it failed. After researching that fglrxconfig gives me a file which don't load keyboard properly I just replaced my original xorg.conf Devices section with that generated by fglrxconfig. And now situation is worst - I just don't know what to do with such error:
(exceptions from Xorg.0.log)
Code:
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 02:00:0
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found
Code:
(II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Solid Lines
Dashed Lines
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
30 128x128 slots
(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled
(II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x00000001
(II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
(II) Loading extension FGLRXEXTENSION
(II) Loading extension ATITVOUT
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0
*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
I also can submit my xorg.conf of course, also full Xorg log. I don't have any idea how to fix it and get HW acceleration on my FireGL X1 card :/. Maybe anyone can help
Yeah, im not really sure how compatible these ATI drivers are, after i installed them (on a debian) it wouldnt do startx anymore, i just really want to be able to use a resolution of 1024*768 in GNOME, but i gave up, i tried rerunning the config utilities but i gave up and reinstalled my OS again. Gonna see if i can find more info about this, good luck.
I find a good method is this. If you have X working nicely (but no 3d acceleration) before you install the ATI drivers, make a copy of your xorg.conf. Install the drivers, and run fglrxconfig. Then, copy the ModeLines from your old xorg.conf into the new one. startx. Hopefully X will start up. If not, look at the error message printed to stdout and copy what seems to be the relevant section from the old xorg.conf to the new (for example, when I installed ATI drivers on Slack 10 I needed to copy the font paths from my old config file). Repeat until X works.
Maybe my part of my post about xorg.conf is not clear but first I just generated Xf86conf and renamed it to xorg.conf (saving original xorg.conf) - this gave me errors with keyboard. So I went back to original xorg.conf replacing Devices section with that one from file generated by fglrxconfig. So now xorg.conf is just copy of original not accelerated Xorg configuration but with changed Devices section to Fglrx driver to get some acceleration and it looks like that:
When I try to start screen blinks a few times and then it prints exactly the same what I attached from log file (I think log file is a copy of these messages printed on screen while trying to run X.org, isn't it ?).
I notice you have no ModeLines in there. I don't know whether that matters or not. They go in the Monitor section. You could try copying them in from the file that fglrxconfig created.
I recently upgraded my X and in the process found out that my current X config file had a keyboard error like yours and would not start. I solved it by logging in as root (su will not do, you must LOGIN as root) and running xorgsetup which gererated a config file that worked.
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Again Ati driver and problems with starting X.org
) I decided to post it at Newbie forum not Slackware.
. Kernel 2.4.26, X.org server (6.8.0 ? I don't know how to check :/ but it's just the one came with CD) and Ati driver fglrx-4.3.0-3.12.0.i386.rpm. Everything is working fine with it except of course hardware 3d acceleration. Last 2 days I was browsing LQ forums and I used Heema's solution:
