{"id":9,"date":"2008-10-09T10:44:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T08:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-10-23T15:31:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:31:28","slug":"fglrx-on-gentoo-ongoing-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/fglrx-on-gentoo-ongoing-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"fglrx on Gentoo, ongoing frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the use of the ATI fglrx driver on Gentoo, the frustrations are far from over.<\/p>\n<p>My configuration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>laptop, HP nc8430<\/li>\n<li>two displays, panel (1680&#215;1050) and an external monitor (1280&#215;1024)<\/li>\n<li>Gentoo Linux, at time of writing kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 (stable)<\/li>\n<li>ati-drivers 8.532, the 8.9 version of the ATI Catalyst driver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The problem: Besides known issues I noticed new problems with the current kernel on this driver:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>opengl fails to work at all, glxinfo just hangs<\/li>\n<li>starting open office, it never shows up, so I have to kill the process ooffice (or oowriter, whichever I start up), no output is shown, no errors occur, it just hangs<\/li>\n<li>GNOME screensaver fails to properly activate and lock my screen and hangs on the gnome-screensaver-gl-helper, indicating something with opengl not working properly (??)<\/li>\n<li>compiz-fusion just doesn&#8217;t work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I ended up switching to the opengl of xorg-x11, but issue 2 remains.<\/p>\n<p>with the xorg-x11 renderer, at least my screensaver works as expected; with the fglrx driver I need to enter text mode (ctrl-alt F1) to kill gnome-screensaver-gl-helper (two times, for each screen) in order to get my unlock password popup again.<\/p>\n<p>I sure hope ati will get their development and support department sorted, as rumors that NVidia is having better support doesn&#8217;t make me happyi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the use of the ATI fglrx driver on Gentoo, the frustrations are far from over.<\/p>\n<p>My configuration:<\/p>\n<p> laptop, HP nc8430 two displays, panel (1680&#215;1050) and an external monitor (1280&#215;1024) Gentoo Linux, at time of writing kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 (stable) ati-drivers 8.532, the 8.9 version of the ATI Catalyst driver <\/p>\n<p>The problem: Besides known issues <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/fglrx-on-gentoo-ongoing-frustration\/\">fglrx on Gentoo, ongoing frustration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,34,3],"tags":[8,9,10,7,70],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}