ATI support

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.com
Tue Mar 20 23:43:12 CET 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 22:30 +0100, Dario Castellarin wrote:
> Can you please attach your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log?
> Mike Chambers ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:51 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> After you install the driver, run the following:
> >>
> >>  yum install ati-x11-drv
> >> aticonfig --initial
> >> aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
> >> edit xorg.conf and drop in the bottom
> >>
> >> Section "Extensions"
> >>         Option  "Composite" "Disable"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "ServerFlags"
> >>         Option  "AIGLX" "off"
> >> EndSection
> >>     
> >
> > After doing the above, and also even adding a dri section as well as a
> > Load dri in the module section, this is what I get below when running
> > glxgears..
> >
> > [mike at scrappy ~]$ glxgears
> > Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> > 1696 frames in 5.2 seconds = 327.441 FPS
> >
> > Do I need to reboot again or is restarting xfs good enough?

Ok, here is my config file.  And in case I forgot or never mentioned
this, the card is a radeon X1300.

What I did see in the .conf file, was there were now two device sections
after the aticonfig --initial command.  One section has vesa, one has
fglrx.  Also, when trying to enable desktop effects, it tells me
composite extension is not available.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"
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# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "KDS XFlat XF-9b/XF-9c/XF-9e/XF-9p"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 98.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
         Option  "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
         Option  "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection


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