borked 804-904 upgrade [[[[!!!SOLVED!!!]]]]

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Good luck!

not sure if you'd get notice of the modification I did to the last one, thus this!

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

True, hadn't seen it!

Crap. What else can we try? This is a slightly different error, now, right?

First thing: yes, that was an --initial , in the script, thanks, you fixed that though, right?
(think you did in 8).

Can you run "dpkg --get-selections |grep fglrx" and see if it really installed it all? (compare with your local debs , you may need to run the same with a different grep if there is a package name that doesn;t include the string "fglrx")

I think at this point we need to see the contents of the X log file in /var/log (see the other thread for details). We need to focus on errors (EE) and warnings (WW).

My hunch is that we are almost there but there is some remnant of an old installation interfering, I know you have the same feeling. How frustrating!

Also, a few hours ago they released Catalyst 9.7 -- I am running it now, I don;t think it will make a difference but hey, you tried so many things ...

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

One more thing, you may want to compare my xorg.conf to yours, who knows, you might find something helpful (see the other thread for that)

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Can you run "dpkg --get-selections |grep fglrx"

glxinfo |grep vendor
still tells me
Error: unable to open display
I'm thinking this is because X isn't running?

lspci -nn |grep VGA
tells me
01:00:0 vga compatible controller [0300] ATI Technologies Inc RV630 Pro AGP [Radeon HD2600 Pro AGP] [1002:9587]
which is correct

dpkg -S /etc/ati/control
still tells me
xorg-driver-fglrx: /etc/ati/control

dpkg --get-selections |grep fglrx
still tells me
fglrx-amdcccle install
fglrx-kernel-source install
fglrx-modaliases install
xorg-driver-fglrx install
xorg-driver-fglrx-dev install
xorg-driver-fglrx-envy deinstall

apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx-envy
still tells me 'is not installed, so not removed'

/etc/ati/control
is there now

aticonfig --initial=check
tells me
found fglrx section

maybe I should try
aticonfig --resolution=Screen0,W1028xH768 ??

aticonfig --query-monitor
tells me
Default Adapter- ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP (which is right)
ati_dm: XWindows is not running (only too too true ...) or $Display is not set
I have no idea what $Display is or where it is stored


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I think at this point we need to see the contents of the X log file in /var/log (see the other thread for details). We need to focus on errors (EE) and warnings (WW).

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I'll look that up next

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Things look mostly ok (except for the old package from envy). You can list its contents using this method, and remove them manually:
http://forum.freespire.org/archive/i...hp/t-3429.html

Also, what version of catalyst are you installing? Thanks!

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

I think at this point we need to see the contents of the X log file in /var/log

(WW) The directory '/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist
Entry deleted from font path

(II) Primary device is: PCI 01@00:00:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx

(WW) This ATI Proprietary Linux Driver does not guarantee support of video driver ABI higher than 2.0
(WW) Video driver ABI version of the X server is 5.0

(II) fglrx(0): Display1: No EDID information from DOC
(EE) fglrx(0): Unknown EDID version 0

(II) fglrx(0): driver needs X.org 1.4.x.y with x.y>=99.906
(WW) fglrx(0): could not detect X server version (query_status=-1)

(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used

(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23 (etc-there are about 80 listed)

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Also, what version of catalyst are you installing?

ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run is all I know

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

This is the one before the last (which is 9-7), but I doubt this is it

Can you please do

lsmod |grep fg

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Can you please do

lsmod |grep fg

fglrx 2131680 0
agpgart 42696 2 fglrx,via_agp

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade [[[[!!!SOLVED!!!]]]]

Can you please do

ALL RIGHT!!!
so what you did NOT tell me to "do" was:
aticonfig --resolution=Screen0,W1028xH76

and guess what- here I am typing in KDE 4.2.2

'spose one could count this as [SOLVED] ?

push button on cd drive
take virtual beer from cupholder
or 3 fingers of your favourite single malt
8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

I googled a bit:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=962194
Do you have dual monitor or an external output?

Some folks there had luck removing
sudo rm /etc/ati/amdpcsdb
And then rebooting

Another interesting thing I found somewhere is the suggestion to not load drm
That might give you a (slow but working) X to start off

Can you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade [[[[!!!SOLVED!!!]]]]

Excellent

One shouldnt need to set the resolution manually, but hey! The thread I was suggesting had some ideas along these lines

Well, I just finished a good glass of wine in anticipation

Cheers!

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade [[[[!!!SOLVED!!!]]]]

One shouldnt need to set the resolution manually

when it came up, the main screen looked fine, but the taskbar/panel/thingy across the bottom was still all streaky- like someone had dragged a fine comb through wet pixels from one end to the other. I went in K > System > System Settings > Display [note to self: who invented that, and will they share whatever they're on ...] to find the default resolution set at 2048Wx768H. No wonder it "wasn't supported" ... Changed it back to 1024x768 and all was well

go figure ...

other oddities included not having Konsole or any package mgmt interface there: I googled around a bit and solved most of it by installing kdebase ... an upgrade that doesn't include kdebase

hooodahthunkit ...

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade [[[[!!!SOLVED!!!]]]]

Well, no, your upgrade crashed, evidentl, just install kubuntu-desktop and this should bring you back to normal

Yeah, ATI binary drivers are really shaky, I cant wait for the Open Source ones to be finished, hopefully before year end?