While solid progress is being made, the fglrx driver (whether from ATI
or Ubuntu) are not perfect. The following documents my experience, in
hopes of assisting the developers in improving the driver.
I finally did get the driver to work with all the compiz bells and
whistles, but I cannot now remember all of what I did. (I should have
written it down!) There are a few things I do remember, however:
--The proprietary driver flat doesn't work using the rt kernel. I'm informed
that the developers are working to rectify that issue, but that's the story for
now.
--There are a few issues with the /usr/bin/compiz script:
-- Certain paths are incorrect. Edit /usr/local/* ---> /usr/*
--The file /etc/xdg/compiz/compizmanager sometimes gets hosed up. See
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?p=49857 Make sure you don't have
a circular reference from compizmanager to compizmanager.ubuntu (I just deleted
the .ubuntu one and commented out the reference to it in the regular one.)
> Installed ATI Official driver in addition to restricted,
Won't work. You'll have to purge them both, CLEAR THE PACKAGE CACHE by
running "aptitude clean", reboot, and then install one or the other. In
my experience, the ATI official works and restricted doesn't, but that
may be simply because of my greater familiarity with the former over the
later. I'll first make some general comments and then address the
specifics of your issue.
I assume that you have a good handle on installing the ATI drivers using
the --buildpkg flag. When installing, I found gdebi to be helpful as a
command line tool from the directory where the newly created .deb files
are.
One of the particular issues is to prevent the Ubuntu drivers from being
installed. One convenient way is simply to unplug the network cable
while you are installing the new .deb files. If you have cleaned the
package cache, apt can't grab the wrong package because it can't get to
the internet to download it.
Be sure you install the .deb packages in the correct order: first the
kernel source package, then fglrx, then fglrx-dev, and finally amdcccle.
Reboot. USING THE CONSOLE (i.e., one of tty1 through tty6), NOT A
TERMINAL IN X, copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.something,
and run "aticonfig --initial -f --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf". Then use
nano to edit the new xorg.conf.
If you can't see the console by pressing Ctl-Alt-F2, see this very long,
tortured, and heated discussion about the broken console in Bug #129910.
You may need to adjust for your monitor. Here's something I wrote about
how to ensure proper configuration for your monitor:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/displayconfig-gtk/+bug/150426/comments/3
>(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1)
found
Add the following to your Device section of xorg.conf:
BusID "PCI:3:0:1"
Add at the end of your xorg.conf:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0660
EndSection
After doing all the above (yes, it's painful), reboot, try to enable the
eye-candy, and report back the results. If I in the meantime remember
more, I'll post.
Happy Trails,
Loye Young
Isaac & Young Computer Company
Laredo, Texas
http://www.iycc.biz
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No DRI using fglrx through restricted driver manager
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194892
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