FC6 and Aiglx

Beginner63823 · #1 25th October 2006, 08:32 PM

I recently upgraded from FC5 to FC6. Reading some forums it appeared that Aiglx would be natively supported. I go to Preferences - More Preferences and "Desktop Effects" is not there? What am I missing (quite a lot i imagine!)

Clunixchit · #2 25th October 2006, 08:44 PM

What graphic card are you using ?

Beginner63823 · #3 25th October 2006, 08:50 PM

An Ati Radeon 9600.

Clunixchit · #4 25th October 2006, 08:53 PM

You need to install the closed source ATI driver from livna.

Beginner63823 · #5 25th October 2006, 08:56 PM

ok, How do I go about doing that?! sorry for my ignorance..

Reiver Fluffi · #6 25th October 2006, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beginner63823

ok, How do I go about doing that?! sorry for my ignorance..

The easiest would be to get them from livna, which can be found at rpm.livna.org

On a similar note, I am also having problems getting desktop-effects to work, when I run desktop-effects I get the following output when pressing the button:

Code:

compiz: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
compiz: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz: No managable screens found on display :0.0

My xorg.conf is as follows:

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load   "dri"
	Load   "extmod"
	Load   "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection

This is pretty much what anaconda gave me, except for the modules, extensions and DRI sections I inserted, as per firewing1's guide. Any suggestions?

Reiver Fluffi · #7 25th October 2006, 11:42 PM

Hmmmm, all working now, don't know what I did, if anything....?

Janl · #8 26th October 2006, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clunixchit

You need to install the closed source ATI driver from livna.

Actually, AIGLX doesn't work with the proprietary (fglrx) drivers from ATI. In order to use AIGLX you must use the open source drivers. If you want to use the proprietary drivers you must install/setup XGL on your system.

kai4785 · #9 27th October 2006, 03:51 PM

@Reiver Fluffi

I just finished a fresh install of FC6. The very first thing I did was log in as root, open a browser, copied your xorg.conf file to be mine, ctrl+alt+backspace to restart X and load your config, pop open a terminal and ran "desktop-effects". I also get the:

Code:

[root@lappy ~]# desktop-effects 
compiz: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
compiz: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz: No managable screens found on display :0.0

Where do go to troubleshoot this problem?

lspci gives me:

Code:

[root@lappy ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)

I've also uploaded a copy of my Xorg.0.log file as a text document for review. To save some time:

Code:

[root@lappy ~]# grep EE Xorg.0.log.txt 
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
[root@lappy ~]# grep WW Xorg.0.log.txt 
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) No monitor specified for screen "Screen0".
(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(WW) No FontPath specified.  Using compiled-in default.
(WW) RADEON(0): Unknown DDCType 5 found
(WW) RADEON(0): LCD DDC Info Table found!
(WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...

Reiver Fluffi · #10 27th October 2006, 07:01 PM

I'm not at all sure to be honest, although one of the things I do remember doing inbetween posting that original xorg.conf and compiz working was to use gconf-editor, go to apps>compiz and change one of the settings there, after that it was working. That's the only thing I remember doing.......

kai4785 · #11 29th October 2006, 05:00 PM

Well, I think I found it:

Code:

(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)" (ChipID = 0x5955)
(--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xc8000000
(II) RADEON(0): PCI card detected
(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering broken on XPRESS 200 and 200M
(II) RADEON(0): Detected total video RAM=31744K, accessible=131072K (PCI BAR=131072K)

*sigh* that's depressing. I guess I get to wait till the next version of the drivers come out.

cruiseoveride · #12 4th November 2006, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clunixchit

You need to install the closed source ATI driver from livna.

Incorrect Buzzzzz

The closed source drivers will NOT work.

However the open source ATI drivers will work.

You may get help from http://www.rage3d.com/