[solved] Radeon/Ati and Xorg 1.9

Question

Hi,
since I've upgradede my ati driver (xf86-video-ati) and X to X 1.9 I cannot start my X session, because of the following issue:
Failed to map cursor buffer memory
Fatal server error:
failed to map pixmap -22
XIO fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server 0:0
In the very beginning after having upgraded, I obtained in addition the error of unknown synaptic devices (mouse and touchpad), but in one of the forum threads it was solved and thus I could fix it.(sry link is missing)
But the one error above is still unsolved, and hinders me starting X. Mr. Google couldn't help enymore.
Downgrading is not possible, because of the missing packages...
I hope one of you can help me get X on the screen.
best,
L-K
[EDIT]
I compiled from git and now xf86-video-ati-git works well. maybe the version in [extra] differs from that git-version in AUR.
Ty for reading.
Last edited by linux-ka (2010-10-26 18:07:35)

Answer 1

The kind people from the IRC channel suggested I add this bit at the very end of the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file (instead of "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf" - tho it would've probably worked that way too):
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "us, ro"
Option "XkbVariant" "std"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle, grp_led:scroll"
EndSection
Apparently it works. I just have to hold AltGr and press s, q , a, i, t, etc to type ș â ă î ț etc. But how do I set it to ; { } ] ' ", etc, like the default behaviour in Windows... ? I would like them to correspond to this layout.
Because this is not the "standard" ("std") version...
I may have to edit the "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ro" file to map them.
Unless there's a better way ?
Last edited by DSpider (2010-12-11 13:19:16)