Hey First of all, I just wanted to say this forum is great
Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone else experiences this weird behaviour:
when disabling Composite in xorg.conf (in order to get the 3D acceleration working), X will not start properly, instead displaying a blank screen. It most likely crashes, as it doesn't allow me to switch back to console via ctrl+alt+Fn.
Enabling composite allows X to start (obviously, as it switches back to the Mesa OpenGL driver) and gives the usual message:
(II) fglrx(0): Composite extension enabled, disabling direct rendering
I'm kind of lost here - I don't know what to try next. I've tried numerous things with xorg.conf, but it all seems to depend on the Composite part - if it's enabled, X works, and if it isn't, X doesn't work. The problem is that every time X fails, it's another rescue CD boot for noobs like me
The drivers are compiled as per the instructions on this site (--buildpkg Fedora/FC6, RPM install and all that) and the board is a Radeon 9500 PRO. Driver version is 8.30.3-1.
If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it I'm quite familiar with the console, so if there are any log files you want to see, please ask
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Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone else experiences this weird behaviour:
when disabling Composite in xorg.conf (in order to get the 3D acceleration working), X will not start properly, instead displaying a blank screen. It most likely crashes, as it doesn't allow me to switch back to console via ctrl+alt+Fn.
Enabling composite allows X to start (obviously, as it switches back to the Mesa OpenGL driver) and gives the usual message:
(II) fglrx(0): Composite extension enabled, disabling direct rendering
I'm kind of lost here - I don't know what to try next. I've tried numerous things with xorg.conf, but it all seems to depend on the Composite part - if it's enabled, X works, and if it isn't, X doesn't work. The problem is that every time X fails, it's another rescue CD boot for noobs like me
The drivers are compiled as per the instructions on this site (--buildpkg Fedora/FC6, RPM install and all that) and the board is a Radeon 9500 PRO. Driver version is 8.30.3-1.
If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it I'm quite familiar with the console, so if there are any log files you want to see, please ask
Orioner
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