[SOLVED] Can't get DE to work with catalyst

Question

Hey everyone,
I got problems getting KDE/Fluxbox running. I've installed the latest catalyst drivers (11.6) from AUR. "aticonfig --initial" created the xorg.conf for me, which seems to be ok but it gives me this error:
Found fglrx primary device section
Fail to link to fglrx-libglx.so, please check wether driver is installed correctly
I got two Radeon HD5850s. Is it necessary to connect those two cards with the crossfire cables? I did, but I think it doesn't make any difference if I don't, it's probably unrelated to my problem. When I try to "startx" this is what I got:
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@2:0:0) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@2:0:1) found
Segmentation fault at address 0x838
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
I've also uploaded my /var/log/Xorg.0.log, maybe this is helpful.
My xorg.conf looks like this:
#Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
# Option "CoreKeyboard"
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" RightOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
I'm using kernel 2.6.39 (x86_64) and I've only one display connected to the first card, I don't have another one, so no xinerama or something like that.
Can anyone help?
best regards
Webmaniac
Last edited by Webmaniac2 (2011-06-24 19:41:57)

Answer 1

1- remove your catalyst an catalyst-utils driver build from AUR.
2- remove fglrx from your modules, in my experience you don`t need it there unless you`re using catalyst-daemon.
3- I recommend you use the Catalyst repository:
[catalyst]
Server = http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo/catalyst/$arch
4- Be sure to remove /etc/ati/
5- update repositories and install catalyst and catalyst-utils from there
6- finally follow this part of the wiki:
After installing package you probably need to configure xorg. Using provided aticonfig tool is recommended:
# aticonfig --initial
(or for Dual Head: # aticonfig --initial=dual-head)
And add nomodeset to your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst , ie.:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro nomodeset
You may now reboot your system.
I hope that works, also if you want you can ask in the The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill thread.