ATI Radeon fglrx driver (hoary)

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:22:47PM -0500, JoWilly wrote:
> 
> It works great, this is what you have to do:
> 
> 1. install xorg-driver-fglrx (you already did this...)
> 2. install linux-restricted-modules (contains the fglrx kernel
> module).
> 3. make a backup of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (in case of...)
> 4. start  fglrxconfig at the shell, and go through the config. This
> will generate an XFREE86CONFIG file (ati are not ready here yet...never
> mind)
> 
> (the mouse, keyboard, etc.. are not important here as you will not use
> this generated XFree file (you can use it if you tweek the keyboard
> drivers, etc.... but it is much easier to copy the device section to
> your old xorg.conf file).
> 
> 5. copy Section "Device" from the generated file to your xorg.conf
> file, and comment the old device section out.
> 
> -> you are set to go.

I tried that, but after the screen blanks when gdm starts, X still 
doesn't display nor can I switch to a VC.  It doesn't even get to the 
point of writing to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  

I guess I'll stick to using the X.org 'radeon' driver until things
stabilize a bit.