Slamd64 (64 Bit slackware) and ATI Radeon (catalyst) driver problem

[Kano]

Well I only needed a dri hack for an older ati-driver, usually it is controlled by this xorg.conf section, which seems to be default in newer xservers:

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

[ljones]

I managed to solve some of the other problems such as the missing file, fixed with ' ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so ' .

X starting still seems to be a bit of a problem -- it gets even more weird! I rebooted, and after logging in as non-root (from cold) and starting X went in ok. But leaving X as non-root and then attempting to go back in again (as non root) failed as in my previous post (no screen, errors etc). Prehaps this is a bug in the drivers?

Weird, not sure why that would happen!

ljones

[mounty]

weird! I rebooted, and after logging in as non-root (from cold) and starting X went in ok. But leaving X as non-root and then attempting to go back in again (as non root) failed as in my previous post (no screen, errors etc). Prehaps this is a bug in the drivers?

This fixes X for me; I can run fgl_glxgears as a normal user:

Section "dri"
Group "video"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Then add myself to group video.