LINUX WONT RUN ANYMORE ((
i installed ati drivers and worked fine for 1 day.. but yesterday i turned pc on again and all i get is terminal
when i login and typ: startx
i get error: no screens
i tried running XFdrake and set everything to right settings for display etc
but nothing works linux just wont run anymore

some1 help??

the ati drivers (fglrx) is the module loaded into the kernel after rebooting?

no idea... im a big newbie
but well it worked fine after rebooting for 1 day
till yesterday
and well at installing ati drivers i had some error i couldnt use 3d because of something but the rest should work fine

so you have X working? just not with DRI (AGP). from a console when you execute 'lsmod' do you see 'fglrx' anywhere in the mix? you should. that fglrx is what provides you with access to ATI's AGP card.

i typed lsmod
but couldn't find fglrx in the list :/
( gone to bed.. bb tommorow i hope some1 know hows to fix this because this is no fun linux in black screen :P )
thnx for the help i already got
night night

turn on your box, from the console type as root 'modprobe fglrx'. this should load the ATI driver ... then as a user try loading X.

Can't locate module fglrx

btw this is 9.1
i also got 9.2 RC2
is it good idea to try that 1 or it's not stable?

Not sure about which is better 9.1 vs 9.2.

if you execute as root 'updatedb && locate fglrx'
do you see a directory '/lib/modules/fgrlx'? You should after installing the ATI drivers. If the fglrx module is installed on your system you should also see an fglrx.o in /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/char/...

if not then you will need to 'cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_module' and build the module yourself using the make.sh script in that directory.

then install the newly built module with 'cd .. ; make_install.sh'.

then if all goes well you should be able to modprobe fglrx and you will be on your way.

best of luck,
jpbarto

er, i have no idea how to run files etc
i did /make.sh but i got message: no such file
but i KNOW it's there because ive seen that file when i tried fixing 3d in linux itself

can u maybe explain stuff more.. because im big newbie :P

sure no problem. if as root you are in the /lib/modules/fglrx/build_module directory there will be a file make.sh. the '.sh' means its a shell script (like a batch file in windows). make sure it is executable ... 'ls -l make.sh' ... on the left you should see a 9 character string of assorted 'r', 'w', and 'x' characters. It should look something like this rwxr-xr-x ... if that's all settled then you execute the script like this

'./make.sh' ... the current working directory (whatever directory you're in) is typically not in root's PATH variable. as such you have to specify ( with the './') that you want to execute the make.sh script that is in the current directory.

let me know how it goes, we'll take it one step at a time.

i was root #
-bash: .make.sh: Permission denied

well you're root so you can change the permissions (unless there's a REALLY wierd error)

'chown root.root make.sh'
'chmod 755 make.sh'
'./make.sh'

ATI module generator v 2.0

kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete
file: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h

Ah! well that's a simple one. You have mandrake, means your kernel was precompiled. Mandrake probably installed the kernel from some rpm named kernel-2.4.20_3-i386.rpm or something like that. You'll need to rummage around on your Mandrake CD and install the kernel source rpm as well. Should look something like kernel-2.4.20_02-src.rpm or kernel-2.4.20_03-source.rpm ... once that is installed you should be able to build the module.

jpbarto

( the other solution is to download the kernel source from kernel.org and build a new kernel but that's probably going a little far )