FC10/ KDE-4.2.1 on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop. The fglrx driver locks up laptop, see lspci, Xorg.0.log, xorg.conf below.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 011d Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at c000 [size=256] Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb
X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 i686 Current Operating System: Linux tomcat 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 13:21:22 EST 2009 i686 Build Date: 10 March 2009 07:20:48PM Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.5.3-15.fc10 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Mar 28 10:29:13 2009 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) ServerLayout "single head configuration" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>" (**) | |-->Device "Videocard0" (==) No monitor specified for screen "Screen0". Using a default monitor configuration. (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (**) Option "AIGLX" "on" (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (==) FontPath set to: catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, built-ins (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx,/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (**) Extension "Composite" is enabled (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput. (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd' or 'mouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) Loader magic: 0x81f4400 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 4.1 X.Org XInput driver : 2.1 X.Org Server Extension : 1.1 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6 (II) Loader running on linux (++) using VT number 1
(--) PCI:*(0@1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] rev 1, Mem @ 0xe8000000/0, 0xfcff0000/0, I/O @ 0x0000c000/0, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072 (II) System resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 (II) Loading extension SELinux (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx//libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.4.0, module version = 1.0.0 (**) AIGLX enabled (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts//libfreetype.so (II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 2.1.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.6 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx//libdri.so (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.4.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc." compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 8.58.2 Module class: X.Org Video Driver (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0 (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.58.2 (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.582 (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Feb 3 2009 23:42:26 (II) PCS database file /etc/ati/amdpcsdb not found (II) Creating PCS database from initial defaults instead (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 4.1 (II) AMD ASIC control file status: R2 S1 B324 N324 T323 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error: no screens found
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" EndSection
Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "fglrx" Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection
Jim wrote:
FC10/ KDE-4.2.1 on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop. The fglrx driver locks up laptop, see lspci, Xorg.0.log, xorg.conf below.
I just stumbled onto this, http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_FireGL_9000, from what I can see I'm stuck with the Radeon driver , the location they say to go get the old driver, is not available for Linux. So from what I read and understand , I'm SOL .
ATI Mobility FireGL 9000
Linux driver - Proprietary
The fglrx http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Fglrx driver also provides 3D acceleration, but you have to use some old stuff: The ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 is only supported by fglrx drivers up to version 8.28.8 which can be downloaded here http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon-prer200.html. Be aware that this driver only supports Xorg 7.1 and no newer versions!
Jim wrote:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
That device is no longer supported by fglrx. The good news is that it is perfectly supported by the builtin Radeon driver, including 3D acceleration, so I don't see why you would want to install fglrx in the first place.
You complained in a previous mail about desktop effects being slow, well that's kinda to be expected, your card is not quite the newest generation. :-) I don't think the driver is at fault there. You can try enabling desktop effects, but disabling most effects, especially the GPU-intensive ones (hint: the more an effect moves things around, the more likely it is to eat GPU power - keep away from stuff like "wobbly windows").
Kevin Kofler
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Jim wrote:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
That device is no longer supported by fglrx. The good news is that it is perfectly supported by the builtin Radeon driver, including 3D acceleration, so I don't see why you would want to install fglrx in the first place.
Because he probably found, like me, that some programs (i.e. Blender (which I haven't tried since the latest round of X updates)) don't seem always behave as expected with the Radeon driver. I don't actually think its the fault of the radeon driver anyway but that's the hangman for a lot of people when it comes to graphical issues.