On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote:
> Since I joined this list I've discovered the true meaning of the words
> "Digress" and "Tangent". Someone asks for help and then the whole thread
> spirals off and digresses in all manor of different tangents none of which
> bear any relation to the original problem .
It does have a tendency to do that.
> Every time I see the topic heading I'm waiting for I get all excited
> thinking someone is going to tell me a solution or a peek and poke (Flash
> back to Commodor 64 days there) that will get my ATI card working properly
> but every time there is only reference to something that is already sorted
> and a big debate about the best way of doing it.
The good old days. ;-)
> Please forgive my anxiety but xhost + worked, I don't know what I was
> supposed to do with it, all I needed to do was not log in as root but now,
> rather than address the initial problem the whole thread has digressed onto
> a topic about, well I don't know what it's about,I've lost all orientation.
xhost +username (root, santa, whatever) enables said user to connect to
your display (0.0 usually). Without specifying username (or hostname) you
allow anyone to connect to your display. Basically what I said in another
email about copying ~/.Xauthority is doing the same thing but in a safer
way.
> I suppose I should be used to it, my Missus does it all the time :)
:-)
> Anyone know how to get the new ATI drivers working properly?
When I asked you to run the fglrxinfo & xvinfo was to see if there was
anything wrong with your setup.
If you had done:
bash-2.05b$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)
and gotten a similar result as above you have a working setup, i.e. X is
using ati's drivers.
Similarly:
bash-2.05b$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
Adaptor #0: "ATI Radeon Video Overlay"
number of ports: 1
port base: 115
operations supported: PutImage
supported visuals:
depth 24, visualID 0x23
...
This output shows that the xv extension works.
Shorthand steps to install newest ati-drivers:
(I'm assuming you have a correctly built kernel with agp support)
* emerge ati-drivers (you may have to do 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge
ati-drivers to get the newest)
* opengl-update ati (necessary to tell applications to use ati's opengl
library.)
* modify the xorg.conf (which you have done already).
* modules-update
* modprobe fglrx (also put fglrx in your
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.(4/6) to have it autoload whenever you
do a reset)
* restart X-server.
Best regards
Peter K
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