It's alive!

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Some people are saying "nVidia's patch", I wasn't aware it was submitted by an nVidia dev? I'm assuming it was an X.org dev that wrote the...

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OMG I finally got fglrx working on my x1950 Pro AGP! This is the first time since 8.35.5, which is a LONG time!

First of all I installed...

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Ugh, the amdpcsdb "fix" removes the PreInitDAL failed error but I get a black screen and have to reboot using Magic SysRq keys. I've tried...

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I can't think of anything else to try. I do have a different monitor so it must be some combination the driver can't cope with....

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This doesn't help me ....

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8.40.4 didn't have a memory leak that was the new code base from 8.41 I think. 8.40.4 thinks my card is a PCIE card and so AGP never gets setup, performance...

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I've gone back to 8.35.5 for now as it actually does: detect my card as AGP, runs at 1680x1050 and doesn't have a memory leak .

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Presumably it's related to the PreInitDAL failed error I get.

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The r1 ebuild didn't help my PreInitDAL error....

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My genkernel test was a disaster, X crashes on startup no matter what version of fglrx I used....

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Interesting, is the PreInitDAL bug to do with 2.6.23?...

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I can get rid of the glibc error with:

export MALLOC_CHECK_=2
startx

I still get the PreInitDAL failed error....

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I followed all this and still get the same error. I make sure I do:

modprobe -r fglrx

Before starting X to make sure the...

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This does not fix the problem for me. I do the following:

1) Downgrade to 8.433
2) eselect opengl set ati
3) etc-update to...

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givemesugar: I've tried all those suggestions. I used the additions to the xorg.conf. I downgraded/upgraded and did etc-update as you suggested. Nothing...