[FusionComm] ATI Mobilty Radeon X1400 + Debian Etch + Compiz Fusion = White Screen

[Guillaume Seguin]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com> wrote:
>
>  Etch uses Xorg 7.1.1, correct?  I have not heard from anyone managing to get
>  compiz+AIGLX working on fglrx on anything older than Xorg 7.2.  You could
>  also try asking on the forums (http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/), but I'd
>  definitely recommend updating Xorg if you're not at least at 7.2.
>
>  Adam
>
>

Or you could use Xgl (which is what most people using fglrx and Compiz
currently do afaik)

Guillaume

>
>  On Wednesday 05 March 2008 05:52:13 Carlos Parada wrote:
>  > Hello, I'm trying to install Compiz Fusion on my Debian 4.0 Etch machine
>  > but It has been completely impossible so far... I've got a annoying white
>  > screen every time I ran it.
>  >
>  > My graphics card is a ATI Radeon X1400 and I've installed the latest ATI
>  > proprietary driver for it from ATI website. The output of fglrxinfo command
>  > says that It's properly installed.
>  >
>  > Here is my XORG.CONF file:
>  >
>  > # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
>  > #
>  > # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool,
>  > using
>  >
>  > # values from the debconf database.
>  > #
>  > # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
>  > # (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
>  > #
>  > # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades
>  > *only*
>  >
>  > # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
>  > # package.
>  > #
>  > # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically
>  > updated
>  >
>  > # again, run the following command:
>  > # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>  >
>  > Section "ServerLayout"
>  > Identifier "Default Layout"
>  > Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
>  > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
>  > InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
>  > InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
>  > Option "AIGLX" "on"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "Files"
>  >
>  > # path to defoma fonts
>  > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
>  > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>  > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
>  > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
>  > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
>  > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>  > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
>  > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>  > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
>  > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>  > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
>  > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>  > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
>  > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
>  > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "Module"
>  > Load "i2c"
>  > Load "bitmap"
>  > Load "ddc"
>  > Load "dri"
>  > Load "extmod"
>  > Load "freetype"
>  > Load "glx"
>  > Load "int10"
>  > Load "vbe"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "InputDevice"
>  > Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
>  > Driver "kbd"
>  > Option "CoreKeyboard"
>  > Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
>  > Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>  > Option "XkbLayout" "es"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "InputDevice"
>  > Identifier "Configured Mouse"
>  > Driver "mouse"
>  > Option "CorePointer"
>  > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>  > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
>  > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "InputDevice"
>  > Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
>  > Driver "synaptics"
>  > Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
>  > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>  > Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>  > Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "Monitor"
>  > Identifier "Generic Monitor"
>  > Option "DPMS"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "Monitor"
>  > Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
>  > Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
>  > Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
>  > Option "DPMS" "true"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "Device"
>  > Identifier "Generic Video Card"
>  > Driver "vesa"
>  > BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "Device"
>  > Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
>  > Driver "fglrx"
>  > Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"
>  > Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
>  > Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
>  > Option "TexturedVideoSync" "on"
>  > Option "UseFastTLS" "1"
>  > Option "BackingStore" "on"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "Screen"
>  > Identifier "Default Screen"
>  > Device "Generic Video Card"
>  > Monitor "Generic Monitor"
>  > DefaultDepth 24
>  > SubSection "Display"
>  > Depth 1
>  > Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864"
>  > "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>  > EndSubSection
>  > SubSection "Display"
>  > Depth 4
>  > Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864"
>  > "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>  > EndSubSection
>  > SubSection "Display"
>  > Depth 8
>  > Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864"
>  > "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>  > EndSubSection
>  > SubSection "Display"
>  > Depth 15
>  > Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864"
>  > "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>  > EndSubSection
>  > SubSection "Display"
>  > Depth 16
>  > Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864"
>  > "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>  > EndSubSection
>  > SubSection "Display"
>  > Depth 24
>  > Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864"
>  > "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>  > EndSubSection
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "Screen"
>  > Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
>  > Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
>  > Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
>  > DefaultDepth 24
>  > SubSection "Display"
>  > Viewport 0 0
>  > Depth 24
>  > EndSubSection
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "DRI"
>  > Mode 0666
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > Section "Extensions"
>  > Option "RENDER" "Enable"
>  > Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
>  > Option "Composite" "Enable"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  >
>  > And here is the output from the fglrxinfo command:
>  >
>  > carlos at debian:/etc/X11$ fglrxinfo
>  > display: :0.0 screen: 0
>  > OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
>  > OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
>  > OpenGL version string: 2.1.7281 Release
>  >
>  > Can you help me troubleshoot this, please?
>
>
>
>
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