[ATI Catalyst] PowerXpress error with aticonfig

Question

I recently just re-installed Arch and have been trying to get catalyst-hook installed from the [catalyst] repo.  When the gdm window comes up after a reboot, I can login, but I immediately get an "Oh no!" error.  So, I figured I need to run aticonfig to generate a working xorg.conf for this setup.  I switched over to tty1 and ran:
sudo aticonfig --initial --heads=2 --adapter=0
(I am trying to get a setup with three monitors on two cards.)
That gives me this error:
Found fglrx primary device section
Found fglrx secondary device section
PowerXpress error: Cannot stat '/usr/lib64/fglrx': No such file or directory
Failed to initialize libglx for discrete GPU
PowerXpress error: Cannot stat '/usr/lib64/fglrx': No such file or directory
Failed to initialize libglx for discrete GPU
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saving back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf-0
Well I checked and I didn't even have a lib64 directory, so I made one and symlinked fglrx in there.
Now I get:
Found fglrx primary device section
Found fglrx secondary device section
PowerXpress error: '/usr/lib64/fglrx' must not be writable by group or others
Failed to initialize libglx for discrete GPU
PowerXpress error: '/usr/lib64/fglrx' must not be writable by group or others
Failed to initialize libglx for discrete GPU
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saving back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf-0
I used sudo chmod 600 fglrx, but that didn't help.  What should I do?
EDIT: I just went ahead and symlinked lib64 to lib.  Now it can't find /usr/lib/fglrx/swithclibGL.  Where can I find that?
Last edited by whackedspinach (2011-05-19 03:40:34)

Answer 1

Somehow, I managed to reboot and get amdccle to create the correct display setup.  But now Gnome won't work.  I mean, the display manager is there and all, but I don't get the bar or any of that.
Plus, I still get that ugly cursor corruption when it moves to the screen on the other card.
EDIT: Nevermind, it does that to whatever screen it thinks is the rightmost one.
EDIT 2: Just kidding, now that occurs on the left one.  I am confused.
EDIT  3: New Developments!
Alright, I enabled Xinerama in the xorg.conf file and that almost works.  I say almost because whenever I move my cursor from the middle screen to the right screnn (accross cards), it crashes X.  Still though, it is somewhere.
Some form of Gnome seems to be working, although it looks a lot more like Gnome 2 than the version I was using before installing these drivers.  And the title bar is huge.  Like this:
EDIT 4: This is actually GNOME3's fallback mode since it doesn't like fglrx.  It even reverted to using VESA drivers.
I'll keep working on it.  Any ideas?
Last edited by whackedspinach (2011-05-19 05:03:14)