Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
Getting desperate....
Anyway, with no xorg.conf, I see
============= screen stuff starts
treat ~ # startx
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.6892
New driver is "ati"
The driver from ati-drivers is "fglrx", not "ati". "ati" doesn't even
really exist anymore, it's a wrapper between "radeon" and the old
"mach64" drivers for non-Radeon cards.
For Radeon cards, there are "fglrx" (in ati-drivers binary package),
"radeon" (in xf86-video-radeon package) and "radeonhd" (in
xf86-video-radeonhd package).
For "fglrx" to be loaded, you *really need* a section for it in
xorg.conf. It will *never* get auto-loaded. Ever. Either you put that by
hand in xorg.conf or automatically with aticonfig --initial. If you
don't, that driver will *never* be loaded.
