ATI Radeon fglrx driver (hoary)

[Kent Frazier]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:57:06 -0800, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 

This may have nothing to do with your specific problem, but it is what
was going wrong for me.  Make sure the "Device" section you copied
over has the same Identifier string as is in the "Screen" section, or
X won't know which device to associate with the screen.  I ran into
this problem because fglrxconfig decided to call the device ATI
Display Device or something of the such, while dpkg called it ATI
Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9600 (R300 AP).  Once I changed the
Identifier to the old string, everything worked as well as it had
before.  However my hardware acceleration is still not working and my
glxgears framerate is around 350, just as it was with the ati driver
and the radeon one.

When I run glxgears or glxinfo, the first line it gives me is:
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

I googled around for about two hours and tried a lot of things, but it
keeps giving me that error and not hardware accelerating.  Anyone know
how to fix this?

Kent