Catalyst 8.5 not compiling on Hardy 64-bit

[paquette]

More thanks

Thanks again?as soon as I get finished writing what I'm working on right now I will give it a try.

[paquette]

Not much luck

Well I just spent about an hour and a half playing with this but don't have a whole lot to show for it. First, for some reason, the ?Ctrl+Alt+F1" hotkey hardly ever works for me which makes experimenting with this very slow and time-consuming. The next major problem I've run into is that no combination of video card and monitor in displayconfig-gtk seems to work for me -- even after manually replacing the driver line with Driver "fglrx".

The process you describe seems perfectly logical to me. Do you have any idea which specific ATI card I should choose in displayconfig (I have a Radeon X1900?and a Samsung 213T monitor)? For the combination of two or three Radeon drivers that I managed to try in displayconfig and the Samsung 213T, I can't succeed in getting the GUI interface to start up?even after putting Driver "fglrx" into the file manually. Also, is there any explanation for why ?Ctrl+Alt+F1" just doesn't seem to work for me?

Thanks again for the help!

[paquette]

Ctrl-alt-f1

PS -- I tried two different keyboards!

[SledgeHammer_999]

Just choose the correct monitor or a generic one. Don't try to choose a driver.
After you hit apply check xorg.conf file and replace all 'vesa' with 'fglrx' (there may be more than one)

To bypass Ctrl+Alt+F1 in the grub menu choose the 'safe mode' not the usual thing. I think this way you go straight to the console.

[paquette]

Well, I've not had much luck. I spent some time early this morning working on this again and, whether I use the appropriate Samsung driver or a generic monitor in display configuration, one of two things happens: either the display hangs on boot up or it reverts to very low resolution "plug-n-play." I have to do some real work now but it's rather exasperating to be apparently "so near and yet so far." I am attaching the monitor and driver information from one of my many attempts to make this work. Perhaps you will see something there that that I don't.

I suspect that what might be going on is that the main monitor stays cloned to the S-Video TV output or something like that. At least system/preferences/screen resolution always shows "cloned" as checked no matter how many times I uncheck and "apply" it.

The clip below is from the non-functioning Samsung 213T xorg.conf.

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Vendorname "Samsung"
Modelname "Samsung SyncMaster 213T/CX210T"
Horizsync 30-81
Vertrefresh 56-75
modeline "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
modeline "640x480@72" 31.5 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -vsync -hsync
modeline "640x480@75" 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -vsync -hsync
modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@72" 50.0 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@75" 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
modeline "832x624@75" 57.284 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1024x768@75" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1024x768@70" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1152x864@75" 108.0 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x1024@75" 135.0 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x960@60" 102.1 1280 1360 1496 1712 960 961 964 994 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x1024@60" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x960@75" 129.86 1280 1368 1504 1728 960 961 964 1002 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1400x1050@60" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1600x1200@65" 175.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1600x1200@60" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
Gamma 1.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Boardname "ati"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "fglrx"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1600 1200
Modes "1600x1200@65" "1600x1200@60" "1400x1050@60" "1280x960@75" "1280x1024@60" "1280x960@60" "1280x1024@75" "1152x864@75" "1024x768@60" "1024x768@70" "1024x768@75" "832x624@75" "800x600@60" "800x600@75" "800x600@72" "800x600@56" "640x480@75" "640x480@72" "640x480@60"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "device" #
Identifier "device1"
Boardname "ati"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "fglrx"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "screen" #
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Defaultdepth 24
Monitor "monitor1"
EndSection
Section "monitor" #
Identifier "monitor1"
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

[SledgeHammer_999]

hmmm in "System->Preferences->Screen Resolution" can't you choose a higher resolution?

[paquette]

Pretty sure I tried that at least a couple times!

I believe I tried that several times but it kept reverting to low reolution--or hanging!

[Melcar]

You can try purging the amdpcsdb file (it's usually in /etc/ati). The CCC has a bug that as soon as you change any display settings (like TV-out options) it screws up the displays.

[paquette]

Tried getting rid of this file--still no luck!

[SledgeHammer_999]

Disconnect the tv-out cable just to see if it works that way