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ati binary drivers fail at Feisty upgrade

Asked by gratefulfrog

Hi everyone!

I just upgraded to Feisty on AMD64 with ATI graphics formerly running the fglrx drivers. After the upgrade, X wouldn't start, same as for each upgrade.

I then went back to the old xorg.conf below which use the "ati" driver. But now, X can't seem to find fonts:
I got this warning, but that looks like it wasn't the problem:
"could not init font path element unix:/7100 removing from list"

also it seems to look for cyrilic fonts, but they are commented out in the conf file? How could that be?

My question is: Isn't Feisty supposed to support the ati binary drivers?

If not, is there a way of automating the config at each upgrade?

If not, is there a way to a generate a clean xorg.conf? and from that file, make the minimum modifications to get the fglrx drivers to work?

Thanks for this great community!
GF.

Xorg.conf 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 commands:
#
# cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.custom
# sudo sh -c 'md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf >/var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum'
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
 FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
 # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
 #FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
 #FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
 #FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
 #FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
 #FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
 #FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
 #FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
 #FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
 #FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
 #FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        # paths to defoma fonts
 FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
 FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
 Load "bitmap"
 Load "dbe"
 Load "ddc"
 Load "dri"
 Load "extmod"
 Load "freetype"
 Load "glx"
# removed to try to get the fglrx driver to work 2005 11 26
# Load "int10"
 Load "record"
 Load "type1"
 Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
 Driver "keyboard"
 Option "CoreKeyboard"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Driver "mouse"
 Option "CorePointer"
 Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
 Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
 Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
 Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9200 Pro (RV280)"
 Driver "ati"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Generic Monitor"
 Option "DPMS"
 HorizSync 28-49
 VertRefresh 43-72
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9200 Pro (RV280)"
 Monitor "Generic Monitor"
 DefaultDepth 24
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 1
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 4
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 8
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 15
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 16
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 24
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "Default Layout"
 Screen "Default Screen"
 InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
 InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
 Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

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Best Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

You can install the ATI binary drivers by using the Restricted Manager.
Go to Menu->System->Administration->Restricted Drivers Manager and check the Enabled box.
You may need to re-generate your Xorg.conf as well. You can do it by typing the following command in a console:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Hope this helps.

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gratefulfrog (gratefulfrog) said : 		#2

Thanks for the help!

The restricted drviers manager says I don't need any restricted drivers.

In the meantime, I learned that my ATI 9250 card is no longer supported by the new version of the fglrx driver.

The good news is that the free ATI driver is now capable of higher performance!

Thanks to all for your consideration and help!
GF