<SOLVED> Trouble installing ATI Drivers

[jarhead70]

Hi,

I'm trying to install display driver for my Toshiba A80 laptop which is running Mint LXDE 11. The specs says that it uses ATI MOBILITY RADEON XPRESS 9000. Searching the forum I found a post about installing ATI driver.

I've downloaded the ATI driver installer suggested there (v11.12)

I tried to run/install it, choosing the default/auto option, then reboot the system. While the system can boot fine, upon running aticonfig in the terminal, it says:

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aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

Checking fglrx-install.log in /usr/share/ati I found it tries to compile a module but cannot find GCC. So I install GCC and run the driver installer again. This time I check the fglrx-install.log before rebooting, and I saw that it indeed compile. So I reboot and check aticonfig again, but it shows the same message.

So I check the log again, then try to manually install the module by these commands:

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cd /lib/modules/fglrx
sudo ./make_install.sh

Then I get this:

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FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): No such device

Here's the trimmed down dmesg output

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[    2.766414] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:12/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input4
[    2.766521] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[    2.777396] agpgart-ati 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000

[   22.812167] ATI IXP AC97 controller 0000:00:14.5: PCI INT B -> Link[LNK1] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   22.813217] atiixp: codec reset timeout
[   23.255676] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   23.349591] ATI IXP MC97 controller 0000:00:14.6: PCI INT B -> Link[LNK1] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   23.598386] vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xdca80000, using 3072k, total 3072k
[   23.598392] vesafb: mode is 1024x768x32, linelength=4096, pages=0
[   23.598396] vesafb: scrolling: redraw
[   23.598400] vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:8:8:8, shift=0:16:8:0
[   23.598729] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[   23.646348] fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

[   26.378649] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[   26.378657] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[   26.378768] checking generic (f0000000 300000) vs hw (f0000000 8000000)
[   26.378772] fb: conflicting fb hw usage radeondrmfb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver
[   26.378913] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[   26.399934] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RS300 0x1002:0x7835).
[   26.399991] [drm] register mmio base: 0xE8100000
[   26.399994] [drm] register mmio size: 65536
[   26.400622] agpgart-ati 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
[   26.400644] agpgart-ati 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
[   26.400672] radeon 0000:01:05.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
[   26.400696] radeon 0000:01:05.0: GTT: 64M 0xEC000000 - 0xEFFFFFFF
[   26.400706] radeon 0000:01:05.0: VRAM: 64M 0x000000001C000000 - 0x000000001FFFFFFF (64M used)
[   26.400719] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[   26.400722] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[   26.400747] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[   26.401043] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=64M, BAR=128M
[   26.401051] [drm] RAM width 64bits DDR

[   26.402351] [drm] radeon: 64M of VRAM memory ready
[   26.402355] [drm] radeon: 64M of GTT memory ready.
[   26.403358] radeon 0000:01:05.0: WB disabled
[   26.403504] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
[   26.503641] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x00000000EC001000
[   26.503665] [drm] ring test succeeded in 0 usecs
[   26.503953] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[   26.504130] [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[   26.504419] [drm] Panel ID String: SHP                     
[   26.504423] [drm] Panel Size 1024x768
[   26.504526] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[   26.504528] [drm] Connector 0:
[   26.504531] [drm]   VGA
[   26.504535] [drm]   DDC: 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60
[   26.504537] [drm]   Encoders:
[   26.504540] [drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_DAC2
[   26.504542] [drm] Connector 1:
[   26.504544] [drm]   LVDS
[   26.504546] [drm]   Encoders:
[   26.504548] [drm]     LCD1: INTERNAL_LVDS
[   26.504550] [drm] Connector 2:
[   26.504553] [drm]   S-video
[   26.504554] [drm]   Encoders:
[   26.504557] [drm]     TV1: INTERNAL_DAC2
[   26.588280] [drm] fb mappable at 0xF0040000
[   26.588286] [drm] vram apper at 0xF0000000
[   26.588288] [drm] size 3145728
[   26.588291] [drm] fb depth is 24
[   26.588293] [drm]    pitch is 4096
[   26.592867] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[   26.592881] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[   26.592884] drm: registered panic notifier
[   26.592900] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.8.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0

[  229.014782] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[  229.014794] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[  229.322869] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 365 MBytes.
[  229.323358] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* No supported display adapters were found
[  229.323363] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed


Can anybody help?
Thanks

[mank_in]

I think your Video graphic not supported anymore by AMD . The only driver you can use is open source Radeon driver ( already default in LM 11 )
You can check vga driver with command :

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inxi -Gx

[jarhead70]

I think your Video graphic not supported anymore by AMD .

You can check vga driver with command :

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inxi -Gx

Here's the output

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Graphics:  Card ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 IGP X.org 1.10.1 Res: 1024x768@60.0Hz  GLX Renderer N/A  GLX Version N/A  Direct Rendering N/A

Are there no recourse other than getting a new laptop? At very least Direct Rendering is desirable, cos when I try to play videos with VLC I can see it flicker, especially with fast moving scenes.

Thanks

[mank_in]

Usually Radeon open source driver use Gallium 3D as GLX renderer with direct rendering yes . Maybe the installation of fglrx remove open source driver. Try booting with Live CD, and check the output of "inxi -Gx"

[jarhead70]

Testing inxi with LiveCD I got this

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Graphics:
   Card: ATI RADEON MOBILITY 9200 IGP
   X.org: 1.10.1
   Res: 1024x768@60hz
   GLX Renderer  Mesa DRI R200 (RS300 7835) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
   GLX Version  1.3 Mesa 7.10.2
   Direct Rendering  Yes

So with the LiveCD Direct Rendering is supported. How can I revert the fglrx installed in HDD to the LiveCD version?

Thanks

[mank_in]

The easiest way is reinstall.
But if you want to learn some command line, read this one :
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... tion_Guide
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooti ... _by_driver

Try this :

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sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

If the command is refuse to executed in desktop session , you can try crtl+alt+F1 to login to pure terminal .
after finished,

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sudo reboot

[jarhead70]

Thanks for the help. I think I'll do a re-install now Mint 12 LXDE is out. However it's nice to now how to "fix" it through the terminal. The info and links are much appreciated.