Anyone have problems with ATI drivers?

[yelsir]

Re: Anyone have problems with ATI drivers?

Ehh, close. I got both monitors set up with independent screens at the correct resolution. But the text on everything is huge. And I cannot drag any windows to my secondary monitor. Also, when I move my mouse to the second monitor, my mouse stays on the primary & another appears on the secondary.

I was going to take a screenshot, but ksnapshot only recognized the primary monitor.

So are those missing installs the factor??

[lmilano]

Re: Anyone have problems with ATI drivers?

I have no freakin' idea what you are doing but it's working :P My best guess is that you have a previous install running (a manual install where the installer just put the files everywhere instead of creating packages). Hard to tell

As for the resolution and other issues, I would try in the System Settins now, there is a Display section, hope you get it going there ...

[yelsir]

Re: Anyone have problems with ATI drivers?

Yeah, I gave the display settings a try, but it crashes right away. sigsev 11 with no backtrace.

In your other post, you showed that you had these installed:
fglrx-amdcccle install
fglrx-kernel-source install
fglrx-modaliases install
xorg-driver-fglrx install

I only have the 3rd installed. Do you know of a way to manually install the others?

[yelsir]

Re: Anyone have problems with ATI drivers?

Maybe one of you guys will catch something in here. Here is my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
Screen "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1" 1920 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "True"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

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

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

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

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

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

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

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

[yelsir]

Re: Anyone have problems with ATI drivers?

Ok. I believe I need step 4 in:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide

But:
michael@i530:/etc/ati$ sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_*.deb fglrx-kernel-source_*.deb fglrx-amdcccle_*.deb
dpkg: error processing xorg-driver-fglrx_*.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing fglrx-kernel-source_*.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing fglrx-amdcccle_*.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
xorg-driver-fglrx_*.deb
fglrx-kernel-source_*.deb
fglrx-amdcccle_*.deb


Problem:
michael@i530:/etc/ati$ fglrxinfo
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual!


How do I get those debs??

[yelsir]

Re: Anyone have problems with ATI drivers?

Ugghh. I fixed it!!
I was locked out of my desktop for quite a while. Turns out I was missing a few repositories, & a few other tweaks. Now I've got both monitors at max res with dual head.

lmilano the below is for you. Thank you for your help.

I never want to have to go through this pain again. Can anyone recommend a good way to backup the state i have?

[lmilano]

Re: Anyone have problems with ATI drivers?

lmilano the below is for you. Thank you for your help.

Thank you! Delicious!

I never want to have to go through this pain again. Can anyone recommend a good way to backup the state i have?

Quite frankly, besides backing up yur current xorg, no. One of the main issues with the ATI drivers is that they depend on /etc/ati/amdpcsdb, not just xorg.conf. The other one is that they bloody crap out hard if anything, anything, any little thing is slightly off. OTOH, ATI and volunteers are making great progress with FOSS drivers, so this will be something of the past hopefully soon.

I still don't understand how you installed your fglrx. I, lossely speaking, followed the steps I described here:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...9032#msg189032

Importantly, look at step:

5) Create packages from the installer, and install them all. Make sure they install all, look for error messages, see above in this thread. In my csae (you'll need to adjust this a bit) it was (I did this in a folder containing the installer only):

sudo chmod +x ./ati-driver-installer-9-7-x86.x86_64.run
sudo ./ati-driver-installer-9-7-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/jaunty
sudo dpkg -i *deb
sudo dpkg -i *deb # second pass just in case