ATI Driver Problems

[spencerf]

you would have to check it it is executable

ls -a

then run

chmod +x nameofile

then

./nameofile

[Tommaso]

OK, thanks. Do you guys think that is OK to run the uninstaller while i am in X windows?

[spencerf]

I personally would exit out of X but as long as you are not currently running the fglrx driver (instead using ati, or radeon, etc.) then you should be fine. But it isn't too hard to exit out and log back in.

[Tommaso]

I am not sure what driver i am currently using, here is an excerpt from my Xorg.conf file. I grew suspicious when i read fglrx in the driver, expect why are there two entries for device? Is this normal?

Part of my xorg file:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 9200PRO"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

[spencerf]

now you have to look under your "screen" section and see what identifier you are using--either the one with fglrx or the one with radeon.

here is mine:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen0"
    Device      "ATI Graphics Adapter"
    Monitor     "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    #Option "backingstore"

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0  # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
#        Virtual     1280 1024
    EndSubsection
EndSection

The "Device" section correlotes the identifier section that you posted. So just make sure your "device" section is labeled "Videocard0"

[Tommaso]

Ok, here is my screen section. If i undertand correctly, i am not using the fglrx driver, and it should be fine to remove it without exiting X windows. Correct?

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1280x8$        EndSubSection
EndSection

does anyone know why there is an 8$ in the resolution modes. It looks pretty wierd.

[Zelmo]

If you use pico or nano, a "$" appears at the end of the editor screen for lines that are longer than the screen width (assuming word wrap is turned off, which it should be). I'm guessing the the file got saved once when that character was taken literally, instead of ignoring it as a long-line marker.

I can't think of why that would happen, but I think I've seen it once before.