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02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5670]
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series]

and the 12.4 drivers

I have also an ATI 5000 series adapter. But I use the radeon-driver, not fglrx from ATI. And I don't use KDE but dwm, so I've no problems here.

You should reinstall the fglrx driver before you execute the "aticonfig --initial" command.

Markus

Just updated to latest current and found my mouse and keyboard unresponsive in X11..

Looks like anyone who is still using old style kbd or mouse drivers rather than evdev is going to hit this.

Code:

780.374] (II) LoadModule: "kbd"

[  780.374] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so

[  780.374] (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

[  780.374]    compiled for 1.9.5, module version = 1.6.0

[  780.374]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver

[  780.374]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 11.0

[  780.374] (EE) module ABI major version (11) doesn't match the server's version (16)

[  780.375] (II) UnloadModule: "kbd"

[  780.375] (II) Unloading kbd

[  780.375] (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module requirement mismatch, 0)

[  780.375] (II) LoadModule: "mouse"

[  780.375] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so

[  780.375] (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

[  780.375]    compiled for 1.9.5, module version = 1.7.0

[  780.375]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver

[  780.375]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 11.0

[  780.375] (EE) module ABI major version (11) doesn't match the server's version (16)

[  780.375] (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"

[  780.375] (II) Unloading mouse

[  780.375] (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module requirement mismatch, 0)

Robby, Do input-keyboard and input-mouse need rebuilding/version bumping or are you planning to remove them in favour of evdev?

I originally stuck with the keyboard and mouse drivers because evdev was a little flakey for me when I originally tried it. It's probably improved a little by now though so I'll give it another try.

markush

"You should reinstall the fglrx driver before you execute the "aticonfig --initial" command"

i know but nothing happens, i will try radeon-drivers

If you experience that the KDE-eyecandy doesn't work properly with the radeon-driver, try to change Xrender to opengl, I once had success therewith.

Markus

Same issue with AMD driver here, installs fine, but segfaults when trying to startx (HD6870). Not really a problem for me, gaming is done under Windows and my wmii runs fine with the radeon driver. May be another incompatibility of AMD's driver with current software.

works with xrender and not with opengl ja!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by specialized (Post 4671238)

works with xrender and not with opengl ja!!

You did the mesa upgrade and the freeglut new package?

Or does the ATI do the same as nvivida and bring it's own OpenGL library?

You did the mesa upgrade and the freeglut new package?

yes

Or does the ATI do the same as nvivida and bring it's own OpenGL library?

i gueeesss so

Quote:

Originally Posted by GazL (Post 4671230)

Just updated to latest current and found my mouse and keyboard unresponsive in X11..

Looks like anyone who is still using old style kbd or mouse drivers rather than evdev is going to hit this.

Code:

780.374] (II) LoadModule: "kbd"

[  780.374] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so

[  780.374] (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

[  780.374]    compiled for 1.9.5, module version = 1.6.0

[  780.374]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver

[  780.374]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 11.0

[  780.374] (EE) module ABI major version (11) doesn't match the server's version (16)

[  780.375] (II) UnloadModule: "kbd"

[  780.375] (II) Unloading kbd

[  780.375] (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module requirement mismatch, 0)

[  780.375] (II) LoadModule: "mouse"

[  780.375] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so

[  780.375] (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

[  780.375]    compiled for 1.9.5, module version = 1.7.0

[  780.375]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver

[  780.375]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 11.0

[  780.375] (EE) module ABI major version (11) doesn't match the server's version (16)

[  780.375] (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"

[  780.375] (II) Unloading mouse

[  780.375] (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module requirement mismatch, 0)

have you installed mtdev ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr (Post 4671263)

have you installed mtdev ?

Thanks for taking an interest but I don't have a problem, I was just reporting the issue incase others hit it.

xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse packages haven't been rebuilt/bumped for the new server as can be seen here:

Code:

gazl@darkstar:/local/mirrors/slackware64-current/slackware64/x$ ls -l *input*txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 86100 May  4 04:45 inputproto-2.2-noarch-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 69624 Jun 10  2009 scim-input-pad-0.1.2-x86_64-4.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 24664 May  4 05:00 xf86-input-acecad-1.5.0-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 27984 May  4 05:00 xf86-input-aiptek-1.4.1-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 41736 May  4 05:00 xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 34400 May  4 05:00 xf86-input-joystick-1.6.1-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 25072 Mar 20  2011 xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 46692 Mar 20  2011 xf86-input-mouse-1.7.0-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 17880 May  4 05:00 xf86-input-penmount-1.5.0-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 69376 May  4 05:00 xf86-input-synaptics-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 26060 May  4 05:00 xf86-input-vmmouse-12.8.0-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 16124 May  4 05:00 xf86-input-void-1.4.0-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 85176 May  4 05:00 xf86-input-wacom-0.15.0-x86_64-1.txz

-rw-r--r-- 1 build build 37372 May  4 04:58 xinput-1.5.99.901-x86_64-1.txz

...and don't work. I was still trying to use 'kbd' and 'mouse' in my xorg.conf which didn't work. Switching to 'evdev' sorts everything out..

As the slackware-current/source/x/ directory doesn't contain them, I'm guessing robby is planning to remove them and just make everyone use evdev, in which case these two packages need to be removed from slackware-current/slackware/x/

XOrg upstream has a newer version
xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.1
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...d-1.6.1.tar.gz

xf86-input-mouse-1.7.2
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...e-1.7.2.tar.gz

So let's just wait for Robby's update for this two packages

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr (Post 4671274)

At this point they're probably only intended for platforms that don't have evdev. As I said above, my guess is that robby is intending to drop them, but I could be wrong.

that would break some compatibility with older device

Drivers need to be recompiled with every major version jump in the xserver.

This has not occurred this time with those 2 drivers hence the ABI error.

They just to be recompiled and then they will work again normally.