Hi! As far as I know, the official fglrx drivers doesn't allow composite.
I have an Ati mobility radeon X700 and I didn't manage to activate composite with those drivers. BUT, on january, debian released new mesa glx and dri packages which supports 3D hardware acceleration for my card, and allows composite. Compiz-xgl works fine, I haven't try beryl. The section device is like this in my case: Section "Device" Identifier "Ati Mobility Radeon X700" Driver "radeon" Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,AUTO" #Without this I only see a blank screen, I think it's because of the screen size... not sure Try the free drivers. Greetings! -Inko- 2007/2/15, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi all, I was running happily Debian Unstable for 3 years, when finally my hard drive died, and I had to install Debian from scratch. I want to install beryl http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install/Debian Very nice outlook which obviously requires 3D acceleration and (as outlined on the page above) the option: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection I tried kernels 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 with the latest ati drivers (8.33.6-1) and the ones included in Debian (2.28.8). In a short what I did is: # ln -sf bash /bin/sh # bash ./ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/unstable # dpkg -i *.deb # cd /usr/src # tar -jxvf fglrx.tar.bz2 # cd /usr/src/modules/fglrx/ # module-assistant prepare # module-assistant a-i fglrx restarting x... ===> kernel 2.6.20 (with both driver versions), the module cannot compile at all, complaining about ..... /usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:198: error: expected declaration specifiers or \u2018...\u2019 before \u2018mlock\u2019 /usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:198: error: expected declaration specifiers or \u2018...\u2019 before \u2018addr\u2019 ... ...... ===> kernel 2.6.19 (with both driver versions), 3D acceleration works if Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection But if I enable it I get: % fglrxinfo Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1) % glxgears Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". Any idea how to solve this? Nothing useful in google.. Cheers, Ivan P.S. Attached are /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log # /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 "Files" 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" # path to defoma fonts # FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" # Load "GLcore" Load "i2c" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "freetype" # Load "GLcore" Load "glx" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "int10" Load "vbe" Load "GLcore" SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" EndSubSection EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" 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 "Device" Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]" Driver "fglrx" # BusID "PCI:1:0:0" #uncomment if the desired resolution is not supported #Option "NoDDC" # === Video Overlay for the Xv extension === Option "VideoOverlay" "on" # === OpenGL Overlay === # Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay # will be disabled automatically Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off" # === Use internal AGP GART support? === # If OpenGL acceleration doesn\u2019t work, try using "yes" here # and disable the kernel agpgart driver. Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "On" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection
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