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02-16-2003, 12:27 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Australia
Distribution: Slack 9.1
Posts: 232
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Radeon 8500 drivers, glX missing ?
I tried to install the radeon drivers, but X wouldn't start :
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Looks like a missing shared object module perhaps ? What module if so, and where should it be ? Any other ideas ?
I did tamper with some of my ogl components at one stage, everything was quite ok with the old nVidia card, now maybe this has come back to bite me ?
Last edited by Pres; 02-16-2003 at 12:29 PM.
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02-16-2003, 12:32 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Northern VA, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 1,180
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Could it be that X is still looking for the nVidia drivers from before? Perhaps starting with a fresh XF86Config file. Like running in VESA mode, using the /etc/X11/XF86Config-vesa config. Then attempting to setup the radeon drivers.
Just a thought.
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02-16-2003, 01:47 PM
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Qc, Canada
Distribution: CRUX
Posts: 317
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Like Excalibur says, if you haven't run #fglrxconfig and still carry that old config file, you'll get nowhere.
But chances are the nV drivers have overwritten a few files in /usr/X11R6.
...the first thing I'd do is reinstall X from the install cd.
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02-17-2003, 12:38 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Australia
Distribution: Slack 9.1
Posts: 232
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Still nothing ...
Thanks for the suggestions. Same error though.
I no longer modprobe the nVidia drivers, I did re-install X, and my config file was generated by fglxconfig.
I think that the library isn't being found because it isn't in the right place ... is there a variable like $PATH for shared objects ?
Anyway I'm going to try a bit of reshuffling as per another thread about radeon drivers around here. Any other suggestions would be welcomed though
Edit : ok, I was getting ahead of myself here. I have to compile the module first !! Of course that isn't working for me. But enough for today.
Last edited by Pres; 02-17-2003 at 01:22 PM.
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02-23-2003, 11:55 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Australia
Distribution: Slack 9.1
Posts: 232
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Still no joy
I'm still trying to get the radeon 8500 drivers to work.
Using slackware 8.1
I recompiled the kernel for i686, I used rpm2tgz then installpkg'd it (I did de-tar it first to see where it all went, seemed ok).
cd /usr/src/linux
make distclean
make dep
cd /lib/modules/fglr200/build_mod
./make.sh
ATI module generator V 1.0
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probing for VMA API version...
check results are inconsistent!!!
none of the probed versions did succeed.
aborting module build.
*sniff* I'm back to using windows as my main OS. Anyone know ? This has had me down for many days now.
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02-25-2003, 05:23 PM
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Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Australia
Distribution: Slack 9.1
Posts: 232
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Finally sorted out, took weeks
Phew. Well now they work. What a mission.
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02-25-2003, 07:46 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: freebsd/gentoo
Posts: 68
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you having any problems with that radeon and the console text being garbled? when i boot up the first time the text is just fine, but once i log out or switch to a new console its totally illegiable. I'm thinking this might have somthing to do with the console frame buffer or and i think i remember seing this while trying out a diff distro.
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02-26-2003, 05:17 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Australia
Distribution: Slack 9.1
Posts: 232
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I'll check
I haven't had a chance to check yet, but I will check in the next couple of days and post results.
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02-26-2003, 05:31 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 498
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Quote:
you having any problems with that radeon and the console text being garbled? when i boot up the first time the text is just fine, but once i log out or switch to a new console its totally illegiable. I'm thinking this might have somthing to do with the console frame buffer or and i think i remember seing this while trying out a diff distro.
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I have a Radeon 9700 and have the same problem. I think it has something to do with framebuffers. I edited /etc/lilo.conf to use the standard vga display and it works fine...BUT...there is no penguin! Sniff...sniffle...
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03-03-2003, 11:01 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.0
Posts: 7
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Pres, can you tell me what you did to get your GLX working? I didn't follow. I made exactly what the ATI docs said and I had the same problem you had... can you tell me which modules you compiled ?
Thanx
Wooky
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