[GRLUG] Arch and ATI

[john-thomas richards]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:13:29PM -0500, Marissa Hogue wrote:
> Anyone here an Arch user?
> 
> I did an install on my desktop machine at work, and it went great. I'm
> something of a minimalist, so Arch really appeals to me, and I also
> like the idea of rolling releases. I'm just having a bit of trouble
> configuring the video drivers. I have an ATI Radeon HD 3200 card. I'm
> trying to get the Catalyst 9.10 proprietary drivers, and according to
> the support forums, I need to revert back to Xorg 1.6 because Catalyst
> has no support for 1.7. I went through all the steps, and I still get
> a blank screen when I start X. My Xorg log file has this:
> 
> (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
> (EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
> (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!
> (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad)
> (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)
> (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available
> 
> I have an inquiry posted in the forums, and I'm still waiting on that,
> but I thought here would be a good place to check, and see if anyone
> has any advice on configuring proprietary ATI drivers in Arch Linux.
> Or any other Arch tips and tricks for that matter, since I'm
> brand-spanking new to this distro.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marissa Hogue

Have you reinstalled the catalyst driver?  See here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78961
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