X -configure trouble (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon trouble)

2007-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Dimitar Toshev wrote:
 On Friday 01 June 2007, Mick wrote:
  On Friday 01 June 2007 20:09, Alex Schuster wrote:
   It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and
   radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is
   VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx radeon nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev. X was updated
   with emerge -uN xorg-x11.
 
  You need either the radeon driver OR the ati-drivers.  Up to you.  If
  the former take everything else out of VIDEO_CARDS= except for
  radeon and try configuring your xorg.conf.  Alternatively, take radeon
  out, put fglrx in and emerge ati-drivers before you try to configure
  your xorg.conf again.

Is it really necessary to have only one entry in VIDEO_CARDS? I used to have 
several, just in case.

  If I were you I would first read really carefully this:
 
  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml

 ATI has discontinued support for 9250 and below for some time now. The
 only option is the open-source radeon driver. It's quite good, actually -
 much more stable than fglrx, has support for almost all features of the
 cards (tvout is a notable exception) and you never have to worry that the
 next Xorg or kernel update will break your graphics drivers.

Too bad, tvout was one of the features I was happy to have now :)

Sorry for not responding for such a long time, but I was away from my 
computer at home. I tried a little more, but with no success. But I decided 
to change the card, because the image quality is rather bad, teh widnows 
cast shadows onto the desktop. It is okay if I plug the monitor directly 
into the card, but I need to have an extension cable. It is a rather 
expensive one, without much loss in image quality, except with this special 
graphics card.

Now I am trying out some other cards. The problem is that I cannot get a 
fresh xorg.conf file. X -configure always fails with these messages (like 
in my first posting):

weird ~ # X -configure :1
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/weird:1
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 i686
Current Operating System: Linux weird 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 #6 PREEMPT Fri Jun 1 
05:21:29 CEST 2007 i686
Build Date: 01 June 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
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.1.log, Time: Tue Jun 26 01:10:30 2007
List of video drivers:
ati
atimisc
radeon
nv
nvidia
r128
fglrx
fbdev
vesa
vga

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0xa9) [0x80af86f]
1: X(DoConfigure+0x199) [0x80a367b]
2: X(InitOutput+0x186) [0x80967b0]
3: X(main+0x305) [0x806e405]
4: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7ced83c]
5: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806d9c1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting


The log file (http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/Xorg.1.log for example) does 
not seem to contain more information of value.

I have X running, but only by using an old xorg.conf file where I exchanged 
the Driver line. This seems to work for plain 2D, but I guess to use all 
features I need a new one.

The version is xorg-x11-7.2 and xorg-server-1.2.0-r3, emerge --info is here: 
http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/emerge.info

Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon trouble

2007-06-03 Thread Dimitar Toshev
On Friday 01 June 2007, Mick wrote:
 On Friday 01 June 2007 20:09, Alex Schuster wrote:
  It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and
  radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx
  radeon nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev. X was updated with emerge -uN
  xorg-x11.

 You need either the radeon driver OR the ati-drivers.  Up to you.  If the
 former take everything else out of VIDEO_CARDS= except for radeon and
 try configuring your xorg.conf.  Alternatively, take radeon out, put fglrx
 in and emerge ati-drivers before you try to configure your xorg.conf again.

 If I were you I would first read really carefully this:

 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml

ATI has discontinued support for 9250 and below for some time now. The only 
option is the open-source radeon driver. It's quite good, actually - much 
more stable than fglrx, has support for almost all features of the cards 
(tvout is a notable exception) and you never have to worry that the next Xorg 
or kernel update will break your graphics drivers.

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[gentoo-user] Radeon trouble

2007-06-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there!

I have a new video card (and a new motherboard + CPU, but I got that to work 
already), and once again I am having trouble configuring X.

It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and radeon 
to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx radeon 
nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev. X was updated with emerge -uN xorg-x11. I 
usually configure with X -configure, but here it gives me this:

weird ~ # X -configure :1
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/weird:1
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 i686
Current Operating System: Linux weird 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 #6 PREEMPT Fri Jun 1 
05:21:29 CEST 2007 i686
Build Date: 01 June 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
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.1.log, Time: Fri Jun  1 20:23:38 2007
List of video drivers:
ati
atimisc
radeon
nv
nvidia
r128
fglrx
fbdev
vesa
vga

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0xa9) [0x80af86f]
1: X(DoConfigure+0x199) [0x80a367b]
2: X(InitOutput+0x186) [0x80967b0]
3: X(main+0x305) [0x806e405]
4: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7d8f83c]
5: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806d9c1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

I used the :1 argument because I have X running at the moment, but I also 
tried without X up, so this should not be the problem. The full log file is 
available here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/Xorg.1.log


I also tried xorgconfig, but I get this message:

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Log file: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/Xorg.2.log
xorg.conf: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/xorg.conf.xorgconfig


I got X running by keeping my last xorg.conf and exchanging nvidia 
with radeon. But I want 3d acceleration, and I guess I need the fglrx 
driver instead, but with that I get this error:
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

Log file: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/Xorg.3.log
xorg.conf: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/xorg.conf.fglrx

What could I do? Via google I do not find threads about such problems.

Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon trouble

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 20:09, Alex Schuster wrote:

 It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and radeon
 to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx radeon
 nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev. X was updated with emerge -uN xorg-x11.

You need either the radeon driver OR the ati-drivers.  Up to you.  If the 
former take everything else out of VIDEO_CARDS= except for radeon and 
try configuring your xorg.conf.  Alternatively, take radeon out, put fglrx in 
and emerge ati-drivers before you try to configure your xorg.conf again.

If I were you I would first read really carefully this:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
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Mick


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