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Hello All, |
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I've read that the ati-drivers does not support 2.6.15 kernel yet... |
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I guess when you say nothing finish it means that your command hangs and |
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desn't give you the prompt. I have the same problem. |
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(ati Rf250 M9) |
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Here are a site that point the problem and a way to patch 2.6.15 kernel... |
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http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_fglrx#X-specific_issues |
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Regards, |
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Benoit |
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2006/2/3, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>: |
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> Bruce Burden schreef: |
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> > |
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> > Okay, I have fglrx as the driver in the xorg.conf file. And, at 24 |
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> > bit resolution, xdm starts X. Bliss! |
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> > Then I realized that nothing was completing if it created an xterm of |
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> > output or so. Drat! |
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> > OS is Gentoo 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. Xorg is 6.8.2. Machine is a HP ZD8000 |
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> > with an ATI X600 Mobile Radeon. |
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> > Any ideas what is going on? Clearly it is related to X and fglrx, as |
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> > the xorg.conf "ATI" driver doesn't do this. |
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> > Modules: |
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> > agpgart |
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> > ati_agp |
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> > |
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> > fglrx |
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> Hi, Bruce :-). |
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> Number one, please don't hijack threads. This post came as a reply to |
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> the "update-eix has memory problems" thread; apparently you hit "reply" |
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> and changed the subject, rather than sending a new mail to the list |
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> (which would have started a new thread). This is bad mailing-list |
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> etiquette. |
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> Number two, as to your actual problem: |
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> a) I don't understand what "nothing was completing if it created |
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> an xterm of output or so" means. What is "nothing"? "(not) completing" |
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> how? |
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> I suppose what you're saying is that applications that produce terminal |
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> output are not completing in some fashion, but even if that's a correct |
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> reading, it still doesn't tell me much about what the problem actually |
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> is. Some error messages would be much more useful in this regard. |
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> b) I am wondering about that ati-agp module. Does that mean you're using |
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> the internal fglrx agp module ("UseInternalAGPGart" set to "yes" in |
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> xorg.conf), or that you're using the kernel module for ATI IGP |
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> motherboards? Do you actually have an ATI IGP mobo in your .... laptop, |
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> is it? |
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> c) does the fglrx driver actually now support the X600 series (mobile)? |
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> I know that people with X800s (desktop) don't have support (and, man, |
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> are they P.O'd), and mobile chip support tends to be somewhat choppy, so |
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> it's possible that there's only partial support for the chipset, |
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> resulting in this issue (I have a 9800SE, so while I don't find much to |
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> be grateful for in the ATI drivers, I am at least grateful for an older |
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> model card that is "supported" as well as anything is supported by the |
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> proprietary Linux drivers). |
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> Anyway, hope this helps, sorry for posting to a hijacked thread, but |
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> hopefully Bruce will repost in a new thread and we can go further. |
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> Holly |
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> -- |
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