Hi
I have an ATI X1550 (RV505-based) card that given me nothing but trouble in the past: at first try to make it work with Linux (after switching from winfailure), I had zero success; I removed it and switched back to my integrated Intel 845G video. Then, on subsequent occasions I would install the card, try to "make it go", and eventually give up and remove it.
Thankfully, I've finally got it to run at the non-standard mode of 84Hz and not 83Hz when running my display at 1400x1050 (the 1Hz difference was really making my eyes hurt like mad and it even gave me a headache once), and I can now actually *use* the card. So, first things first, I played a game, then tried to get Compiz Fusion to work, considering my progress. Compiz has never worked on this card for me. Not once.
Along the way of trying to get get Compiz to work, some tiny change I made has resulted in *every app that requests acceleration* crashing when run. Example:
So, no matter what I've tried, I simply cannot get acceleration to work, including trying countless different xorg.conf files, testing different options, even trying to start from scratch - and I can't even do that: X -configure doesn't work because X says this isn't a dual-head card while the driver says it *is* a dual-head card... they duke it out then X just gives up altogether:
I've tried reinstalling the fglrx driver (to recreate /etc/ati/*), I've poked about in /proc/modules (I removed intel_agp from the modules list then rebooted, in the hope it would help - it didn't)... and everything I can think to do. This honestly has me stumped, and I don't really know what to do next.
Any suggestions, ideas or help would be most welcome.
I run Arch Linux.
-dav7
PS. Like I noted in the topic, the last I tried of radeonhd produced bad flickers when I tried to do absolutely anything, and IIRC was what wouldn't switch to 84Hz and therefore gave me the headache!
I have an ATI X1550 (RV505-based) card that given me nothing but trouble in the past: at first try to make it work with Linux (after switching from winfailure), I had zero success; I removed it and switched back to my integrated Intel 845G video. Then, on subsequent occasions I would install the card, try to "make it go", and eventually give up and remove it.
Thankfully, I've finally got it to run at the non-standard mode of 84Hz and not 83Hz when running my display at 1400x1050 (the 1Hz difference was really making my eyes hurt like mad and it even gave me a headache once), and I can now actually *use* the card. So, first things first, I played a game, then tried to get Compiz Fusion to work, considering my progress. Compiz has never worked on this card for me. Not once.
Along the way of trying to get get Compiz to work, some tiny change I made has resulted in *every app that requests acceleration* crashing when run. Example:
Code:
-> glxgears Segmentation fault -> fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer Segmentation fault -> fglrxinfo Segmentation fault -> amdcccle Segmentation fault -> glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Segmentation fault ->
Code:
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found (++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new" (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.
Any suggestions, ideas or help would be most welcome.
I run Arch Linux.
-dav7
PS. Like I noted in the topic, the last I tried of radeonhd produced bad flickers when I tried to do absolutely anything, and IIRC was what wouldn't switch to 84Hz and therefore gave me the headache!
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