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    Problems with ATI Catalyst

    My machine is an Acer 5100-3949 laptop (AMD Turion64-1G) with a radeon express 1100 video. It has a wide screen and an attached 19" monitor. I'm running Kubuntu 8.10. I'm trying to get dual displays.

    I installed ATI Catalyst from the repositories, but when I click on it I get an immediate window saying there is a problem initializing Catalyst (No ATI graphics driver is installed, or the driver is not working properly. Please install the ATI driver appropriate for your ATI hardware.). I downloaded a run file from ATI's web site that installs drivers but no change. It suggests using aticonfig but every time I try that I ruin the graphics, getting a black sceen of death.


    Jim
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    Re: Problems with ATI Catalyst

    may i suggest you install envyng (look for it in synaptic) and use that to install your gfx drivers. this works for me about 90% of the time the other 10% of the time the built in detection worked correctly
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      Re: Problems with ATI Catalyst

      Originally posted by sithlord48
      may i suggest you install envyng (look for it in synaptic) and use that to install your gfx drivers. this works for me about 90% of the time the other 10% of the time the built in detection worked correctly
      I installed Envyng-qt and now have three problems

      1) the external monitor is not showing the whole screen, the left side is missing about 5%( the K button is off the screen and you can't get to it except on the internal screen

      2) when you click on the ATI Catalyst in utilities you see the bouncing symbol, then ATI shows up at the bottom of the screen. after about 20 seconds the ATI entry goes away and never shows up anywhere else

      3)the external screen is still just a mirror of the main screeen

      jim
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        Re: Problems with ATI Catalyst

        the first and 3rd issue can be fixed in the CCC from ati , the second you should be able to fix in your xorg.conf file, check the res there..
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          Re: Problems with ATI Catalyst

          Originally posted by sithlord48
          the first and 3rd issue can be fixed in the CCC from ati , the second you should be able to fix in your xorg.conf file, check the res there..
          I beginning to wonder if dual monitors was meant to be. In M$ this is a total no brainer, 2 or 3 clicks and VOILA!, there it is.

          I downloaded and installed ati'S ccc. Not so easy as my radeon express 1100 was not listed, so I lied.

          Next step was:

          jim@jim-main:~/Desktop$ /usr/bin/aticonfig --initial
          Parse error on line 34 of section Module in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
          "Disable" is not a valid keyword in this section.
          jim@jim-main:~/Desktop$

          So I edited xorg.conf and deleted line 34, and ran it again:

          jim@jim-main:~/Desktop$ /usr/bin/aticonfig --initial
          Found fglrx primary device section
          Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
          Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx-0
          /usr/bin/aticonfig: Writing to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' failed. Bad file descriptor.
          jim@jim-main:~/Desktop$

          Sheesh, by the time I get this done, I may have a long beard!

          Jim
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            Re: Problems with ATI Catalyst

            i used to run 2 screens on my old geforce, although one was a clone and thats a bit diffrent then what your trying to do. but i have options for two screens in my CCC, (with a ati HD4830) just don't have another dvi screen to confirm that it works
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              Re: Problems with ATI Catalyst

              After some thought and stumbling around I realized I needed to run that command with sudo. When I reboot things were the same . Looking in the menus there was no option for Catalyst. I ran aticonfig with the --help option and it said for dual head setup use --initial=dual-head. When I tried that, on reboot got a blank screen on the internal monitor and "signal out of range on the external one. ctl-alt-f1 didn't get me the a text screen but ctl-alt-del did reboot. Booted up the rescue disk and corrected the error. I back to square one!
              Jim
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                Re: Problems with ATI Catalyst

                This is a copy of the xorg.conf that gives a "signal out of range" on my external monitor"


                # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
                #
                # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
                # values from the debconf database.
                #
                # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
                # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
                #
                # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
                # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
                # package.
                #
                # Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
                # in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
                # here are ignored.
                #
                # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
                # again, run the following command:
                # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

                Section "ServerLayout"
                Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
                Screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
                Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" RightOf "Default Screen"
                EndSection

                Section "Files"
                EndSection

                Section "Module"
                Load "glx"
                EndSection

                Section "Monitor"
                Identifier "Configured Monitor"
                EndSection

                Section "Monitor"
                Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
                Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
                Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
                Option "DPMS" "true"
                EndSection

                Section "Device"
                Identifier "Configured Video Device"
                Driver "fglrx"
                BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
                EndSection

                Section "Device"
                Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
                Driver "fglrx"
                BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
                Screen 1
                EndSection

                Section "Screen"
                Identifier "Default Screen"
                Device "Configured Video Device"
                Monitor "Configured Monitor"
                DefaultDepth 24
                EndSection

                Section "Screen"
                Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
                Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
                Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
                DefaultDepth 24
                SubSection "Display"
                Viewport 0 0
                Depth 24
                EndSubSection
                EndSection

                Being the clueless newbie that I am, I have no clue where this is going wrong.

                Jim

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                  Re: Problems with ATI Catalyst

                  My problem was mostly solved by http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1773544. The resolution on the internal monitor is 1024x1024 instead of 1280x800.
                  aticonfig -- add-pairmode=1024x768+1280x800 fails with

                  jim@jim-main:~$ sudo aticonfig --add-pairmode=1024x768+1280x800
                  [sudo] password for jim:
                  FGLRX_AddPairMode failed when try to add mode : 1024x768+1280x800
                  Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
                  Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx-8
                  jim@jim-main:~$

                  Am I parsing this wrong?

                  Jim
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                    Re: Problems with ATI Catalyst - completly SOLVED

                    I don't know why aticonfig --add-pairmode didn't work. Found that aticonfig --Mode2=1280x800 did the trick. Now alls working well

                    Jim
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