X blacks out... ATI HD3450 with FOSS driver

Question

Hi everyone!
I'm a formal Ubuntu user (was LOTS better that M$ **), I've installed Arch linux now. I'm booting fine (through ubuntu grub2, I'll 'fix' that later on), I love it. It's a clean OS, I'm planning LXDE.
I've two users: myself and root. Installed xorg-server, init etc,
Output of pacman -Qqs xorg at http://paste.pocoo.org/show/480698/
Do I miss something?
Output of Xorg.0.log at http://paste.pocoo.org/show/480702/
If I run startx through my reg. user account, I get a black screen. Just black, no cursor, no terminal, all pixels set to #000000. Though, if I run
# sleep 30 && reboot
# startx
fast enough, the system reboots after 30 seconds. I can't get ctrl_alt_bksp working.
.xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
exec xterm
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
I can't do Alt-F1/CTRL-ALT-F1 to get back in tty...
Help?
Ruben De Smet
Last edited by rubdos (2011-09-22 19:16:57)

Answer 1

karol wrote:Post the output of 'lspci | grep -i vga'
# lspci | grep -i vga
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450]
Have you run 'aticonfig'?
no, I'll have a look
bash: aticonfig: command not found
aticonfig is for prop. drivers
It seems things went from bad to worse when you tried to setup KMS, can you post the files you edited?
I edited modprobe, but I reset it when the system failed to start. Didn't change anything else after the reïnstallation (I first installed Arch, messed it up with KMS and reïnstalled)
Edit: Have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fg … _or_startx ?
it's for fglrx, the commercial/prop. driver. Didn't try that yet...
EDIT: Okay, I threw my pc open to check whether I've pci graphics or AGP graphics. Stupid me. I thought I had PCI!!
For AGP support, it is necessary to add intel_agp (or ali_agp, ati_agp, amd_agp, amd64_agp etc.) before the radeon module.
I hope this will work. I'll report if it does.
EDIT2: How do I know what I need? I've 64bit Arch on a amd motherboard (Phenom X3 cpu). So amd64? How do I install this module (what's the pkg name?)
EDIT3: Mobo manual tells me about 2 pci slots and 2 pci-e... I've to wash my eyes with soap. No AGP on the mobo...
Last edited by rubdos (2011-09-23 15:30:07)