Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Troubleshooting XComposite
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:02:07
Message-Id: 200901021902.03588.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Troubleshooting XComposite by Beso
1 On Freitag 02 Januar 2009, Beso wrote:
2 > 2009/1/1 Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at>:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > When my hard-disk made suspicious noises recently, I decided to replace
6 > > it - be safe rather than sorry - and use the opportunity to do a
7 > > complete, fresh install of my system. The new system is up and running
8 > > (OpenOffice troubles aside), with the added advantage that I finally
9 > > managed to get to the most recent ATI binary driver version instead of
10 > > that stone-age version that happened to not hang my system under the old
11 > > setup.
12 > >
13 > > With the new driver, I want to use its AIGLX capabilities. However, I'm
14 > > having trouble getting XComposite to work. I have it enabled in
15 > > xorg.conf:
16 > >
17 > > Section "Extensions"
18 > > Option "Composite" "Enable"
19 > > EndSection
20 >
21 > you need also to enable damage and render extension in the extensions
22 > section. here's what
23 > ity should look like:
24
25 NO
26
27 he does not. In fact he does not have to enable anything of this.
28
29 Here is a close to perfect xorg.conf, with composite/aiglx working:
30
31 Section "ServerLayout"
32 Identifier "Layout0"
33 Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
34 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
35 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
36 EndSection
37
38 Section "Files"
39 EndSection
40
41 Section "Module"
42 Load "evdev"
43 Load "v4l"
44 EndSection
45
46 Section "InputDevice"
47 Identifier "Mouse0"
48 Driver "evdev"
49 Option "CorePointer"
50 Option "Name" "Logitech, Inc. MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse"
51 Option "evBits" "+1-2"
52 Option "keyBits" "~272-287"
53 Option "relBits" "~0-2 ~6 ~8"
54 EndSection
55
56 Section "InputDevice"
57 Identifier "Keyboard0"
58 Driver "evdev"
59 Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
60 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
61 Option "XkbModel" "evdev"
62 Option "XkbLayout" "de"
63 Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
64 EndSection
65
66 Section "Monitor"
67 Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
68 Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
69 Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
70 Option "DPMS" "true"
71 EndSection
72
73 Section "Device"
74 Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
75 Driver "fglrx"
76 BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
77 EndSection
78
79 Section "Screen"
80 Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
81 Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
82 Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
83 DefaultDepth 24
84 SubSection "Display"
85 Viewport 0 0
86 Depth 24
87 EndSubSection
88 EndSection
89
90
91 >you'll also need to enable texturedrender in your device section to
92 >enable the Xv. i've been not
93 >using fglrx for some months now (the xf86-video-ati is quite enough
94 >for my needs) and i don't
95 >remember all the hacks that are available for fglrx driver. look at
96 >the phoronix forums for more
97 >detailed configuration infos about fglrx.
98
99 no, he does not.
100
101
102 Check the symlinks in your system. Give us your xorg.0.log.
103 For me (using some leaked 9.1beta) I have to restart X to get glx (and
104 composite) for some mysterious reasons.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Troubleshooting XComposite Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Troubleshooting XComposite Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>