What's up guys? (problem with fglrx)

[joe.pelayo]

Hello there.

I am experiencing a nasty problem with the graphics. I have an ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 card in my laptop and installed the fglrx driver through yum (it takes along some other packages as well). The problem is that whenever I want to check if the driver is running all I get is:

[joe@izcoatl ~]$ fglrxinfo
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  143 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  15
  Current serial number in output stream:  15
[joe@izcoatl ~]$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  143 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  15
  Current serial number in output stream:  15
[joe@izcoatl ~]$

Has anyone an idea of how to solve this or which package is bringing trouble?

Furthermore, unless ATI dropped support in the driver for "Desktop Effects", I think the driver is not working at all because "Desktop Effects" don't work any more, which is not the case should I use the free driver "radeon", but unfortunately that yields few FPS.

Thanks.
Joe.

Thanks.
Joe.

[joe.pelayo]

Am I the only one with this problem?

Thanks.
Joe.

[ppesci]

Nope, several persons reported the problem in the fglrx thread. Your problem is with the new xorg packages. Look at that thread.

In the meaning time as root try:

fglrx-config-display disable
fglrx-config-display enable


to see if that solve your problems.

HTH

[joe.pelayo]

Originally Posted by ppesci

Nope, several persons reported the problem in the fglrx thread. Your problem is with the new xorg packages. Look at that thread.

In the meaning time as root try:

fglrx-config-display disable
fglrx-config-display enable


to see if that solve your problems.

HTH

Thanks for your response.

In sake of stability and video playback ability I disabled fglrx and re enabled radeon instead. However I'd like to have fglrx working, so I'll check that thread.

In the meantime, those commands you suggested me to run, aren't they supposed to cancel out each other?

Thanks.
Joe.

[ppesci]

Yes but the second command try to re enable the driver again after xorgs packages install. Worked for me but not necessary for others.

Try it.

HTH

[kyle_p]

You can try the driver right from the ati website. for that to work you will need libstdc++ 6 (i think), gcc/gc++ and the kernel dev packages. Then build the rhel binary as there is no fedora specific one and install it also you may need to update your xorg.conf to ensure it loads fglrx at X startup. then reboot or restart X and make sure it loaded with lsmod | grep fglrx

I have had a lot of issues getting newer fglrx releases to work well with newer fedora releases. Mind you my card is different (x1950). In saying that, CentOS/RHEL (i386) and the newest RHEL fglrx module directly from ati.com works really really well together as RHEL is the only distro that ati has verified the driver for.

hope that helps :P

[joe.pelayo]

Originally Posted by kyle_p

You can try the driver right from the ati website. for that to work you will need libstdc++ 6 (i think), gcc/gc++ and the kernel dev packages. Then build the rhel binary as there is no fedora specific one and install it also you may need to update your xorg.conf to ensure it loads fglrx at X startup. then reboot or restart X and make sure it loaded with lsmod | grep fglrx

I have had a lot of issues getting newer fglrx releases to work well with newer fedora releases. Mind you my card is different (x1950). In saying that, CentOS/RHEL (i386) and the newest RHEL fglrx module directly from ati.com works really really well together as RHEL is the only distro that ati has verified the driver for.

hope that helps :P

Interesting, I will try that when I get some spare time. Right now I am in the Aspire One.

Thanks.
Joe.