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Mathieu Malaterre

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Mar 15, 2011, 4:10:02 AM3/15/11
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Hi,

I decided to use the fglrx driver on my linux squeeze system as the
3D seemed a bit slow on my machine. Here is my setup:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan
[Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]

I followed the steps for squeeze from the page:
http://wiki.debian.org/fr/ATIProprietary (*)

However glxinfo/glxgears/fglrxinfo keeps on failing with:

X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no
such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 136 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 15
Current serial number in output stream: 15


According to the log file I have the following errors:

$ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(EE) fglrx(0): ACPI: DRM connection failed
(EE) fglrx(0): ACPI: DRM connection failed
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized.
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to initialize
(EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

And last but not least I cannot use aticonfig

$ aticonfig --initial
Found fglrx primary device section
Unable to find any supported Screen sections

Thanks for any suggestions,
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Mathieu

(*)
$ apt-cache policy fglrx-modules-dkms
fglrx-modules-dkms:
Installed: 1:10-9-3
Candidate: 1:10-9-3
Version table:
1:11-2-1 0
100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
*** 1:10-9-3 0
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free amd64 Packages
200 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing/non-free amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


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Andrei Popescu

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Mar 15, 2011, 5:00:02 AM3/15/11
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On Ma, 15 mar 11, 09:06:18, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
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> $ aticonfig --initial
> Found fglrx primary device section
> Unable to find any supported Screen sections

Assuming you followed those steps *exactly* and there were no errors,
remove xorg.conf and retry the 'aticonfig --initial'. BTW, that command
needs root, because it must write a new xorg.conf.

Regards,
Andrei
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Mathieu Malaterre

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Mar 15, 2011, 5:10:01 AM3/15/11
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Andrei Popescu
<andreim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ma, 15 mar 11, 09:06:18, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>> $ aticonfig --initial
>> Found fglrx primary device section
>>  Unable to find any supported Screen sections
>
> Assuming you followed those steps *exactly* and there were no errors,
> remove xorg.conf and retry the 'aticonfig --initial'. BTW, that command
> needs root, because it must write a new xorg.conf.
>

Actually the solution was simply to get the driver from unstable:

sudo apt-get install -t unstable fglrx-control fglrx-driver fglrx-glx
fglrx-modules-dkms

It did pulls lot of update xserver-* packages but glxinfo/glxgears are
working very nicely.

Thanks,
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Mathieu


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Chris Bannister

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Mar 16, 2011, 5:30:01 AM3/16/11
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:06:18AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
> According to the log file I have the following errors:
>
> $ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (EE) fglrx(0): ACPI: DRM connection failed
> (EE) fglrx(0): ACPI: DRM connection failed
> (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized.
> (EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.
> (EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to initialize
> (EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

For this one, see:
http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad

I had that problem, and following the advice of putting:
"options psmouse proto=imps" in say, "/etc/modprobe.d/touchpad.conf"
fixed it.

> And last but not least I cannot use aticonfig
>
> $ aticonfig --initial
> Found fglrx primary device section
> Unable to find any supported Screen sections

Sorry, can't help here.

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