Ok! Thanks to all who offered suggestions. I finally got it working.
Bottom line was, you need to re-emerge Xorg to get it working.
I noticed this line while emerging xorg:
* Switching to ati OpenGL interface...
Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
I then re-emerged the ati-drivers which turned
According to everything I've read, the ATI 9550 should be fully
supported with Xorg.
I have followed the steps in the Gentoo ATI FAQ to the letter (in fact
several times over) and I simply can not get this card to work right.
The log always reports DRI initialization failed! and my desktop is so
Am Freitag, den 02.09.2005, 10:34 -0500 schrieb John Lange:
The following 4 items are included inline to help with debugging. Please
excuse their rather large size.
1) Xorg.log
2) lsmod
3) glxinfo
4) fglrxinfo
I'm sorry but you forgot the real important file here: your xorg.conf
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Mit
Ah, here it is as generated by fglrxconfig.
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# File: xorg.conf
# File generated by fglrxconfig (C) ATI Research, a substitute for xf86config.
# Note by ATI: the below copyright notice is there for servicing possibly
# pending third party rights on the file format and the instance of this
You need to enable the GLX extension en xorg.conf, ie:
in the Module-section (Section Module), append
Load glx
before EndSection, and try again :)
Oscar
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:34:56 -0500
John Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.
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Sorry for not including it in the original posting but here is the
section from xorg.conf which includes the load glx. Following that is
the error message it generates in the log file. Then the listing
of /usr/lib/modules/extensions/ which (sort of) contains a libglx.so. I
think this may be where
John Lange schreef:
but I'm clueless as to why libglx wouldn't be working.
(II) LoadModule: glx (WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx (II)
UnloadModule: glx (EE) Failed to load module glx (module does not
exist, 0)
The module not existing would seem to be a good reason that it doesn't
Thanks for the reply Holly.
Symlinks are as follows:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 9 08:47 linux - linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root4096 Sep 2 08:54 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3
I've re-emerged the ati drivers several times but can't hurt to do it
again... Following is the
John Lange schreef:
Thanks for the reply Holly.
Symlinks are as follows:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 9 08:47 linux - linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root4096 Sep 2 08:54 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3
I've re-emerged the ati drivers several times but can't hurt to do
Yup. Done it each time I emerged the ati drivers. Here it is again just
for the heck of it.
# opengl-update ati
* Switching to ati OpenGL interface...
Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
* Caching service dependencies...[ ok ]
I wish it was that easy :\
Note the dates
Holly Bostick:
John Lange schreef:
And does that file name libglx.so.1.0.7174 seem right?
Now that you mention it, no. Isn't that an nVidia file (I'm not
sure, having never had an nVidia card, but that number looks like
an nVidia driver revision number to me).
Here's mine:
[cut]
Here's
John Lange:
Note the dates in:
/usr/lib/modules/extensions/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 16580 Apr 10 17:38 libdbe.a
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 32470 Apr 10 17:38 libdri.a
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 167396 Apr 10 17:38 libextmod.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 651460 Apr 10 18:20 libglx.so.1.0.7174
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