Hi all. Yesterday, as you know, have been released a new version of fglrx drivers. I was updating all of them, and when I reboot my computer, surprise! I couldn't login again. The x-server has gone
Can anybody help me with this problem? Thanks a lot.
Problems with ATI fglrx drivers
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Problems with ATI fglrx drivers
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Re: Problems with ATI fglrx drivers
Boot recovery mode, login to the console and:
Once done, reboot and you should get to your desktop using the free drivers. I usually install ATI drivers wiith sgfxi, part of the http://smxi.org/ package. It looks complicated but read through and go slowly, and you should be OK.
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sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
Kernel Linux Tex 5.12.14-zen1-1-zen, XFCE
Arch
Dual GTX1070 8Gb
AMD Ryzen 1800X
32Gb RAM
Arch
Dual GTX1070 8Gb
AMD Ryzen 1800X
32Gb RAM
Re: Problems with ATI fglrx drivers
Sadly when you update the linux kernels you have to refresh your xserver.
Re: Problems with ATI fglrx drivers
I know this is not much consolation but the update went OK for me. My card is a Mobility Radeon HD5000 series. Here is my xorg.conf in case it helps, note I had to comment out the BusID to get it to work:
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# NOXORGCONFEXISTED: No X.org configuration file existed when this backup was created.
Section "Device"
Driver "fglrx"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Identifier "Card0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
# Option "RENDER" "disable"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
EndSection
Re: Problems with ATI fglrx drivers
Please note, the new inxi, 1.4.98 and later, offer, finally, the pci bus id for graphics cards with -Gx
that's precisely so you can diagnose incorrect busids in xorg.conf. By happy chance, I changed mobos on one system after doing that update to inxi, and got to actually use the feature to find out why x was failing to start, sure enough, wrong pci bus id.
By the way, you can see if you have the old or new inxi by this: if it says busID: then you have the old one, for say audio or network card, if it says: bus-ID: you have the new up to date version.
that's precisely so you can diagnose incorrect busids in xorg.conf. By happy chance, I changed mobos on one system after doing that update to inxi, and got to actually use the feature to find out why x was failing to start, sure enough, wrong pci bus id.
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inxi -Gx
Graphics: Card: nVidia G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] bus-ID: 02:00.0 X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 2560x1024@50.0hz
GLX Renderer GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! GLX Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 270.29 Direct Rendering Yes
inxi system information script (install info) :: inxi git