8.44 problems in creating debs for debian unstable

[deepsmoke]

Hi all,
I've just joined the forum, found while searching for posts about the new installer ati 7.12 - 8.443. I'm using Debian Sid which uses Xorg 7.3 and kernel 2.6.23. I had to upgrade the system due to problems concerning the WM. In my previous configuration, Sid was using Xorg 7.2 and kernel 2.6.22. In that system I was able to install fglrx by creating the debs packages from the installer, then installed the module and edited the xorg.conf. The installer 8.40 worked properly.

After the upgrade I used 8.443 installer that should be working fine with X 7.3 and kernel 2.6.23 but fails in creating the debs:

smoke@debian:/video/documents/ATI$ sudo ./ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/unstable



dh_installdeb
LD_PRELOAD= dh_shlibdeps --exclude=emul
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _XFlush used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XextAddDisplay used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _XReply used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XextRemoveDisplay used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XextCreateExtension used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XextFindDisplay used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so shouldn't be linked with libpthread.so.0 (it uses none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so shouldn't be linked with librt.so.1 (it uses none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so shouldn't be linked with libdl.so.2 (it uses none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so shouldn't be linked with libm.so.6 (it uses none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _XFlush used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XextAddDisplay used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _XReply used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XextRemoveDisplay used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XextCreateExtension used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XextFindDisplay used by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/fglrx-driver/usr/lib/xorg/modules/glesx.so shouldn't be linked with libdl.so.2 (it uses none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library libfglrx_gamma.so.1 needed by debian/fglrx-driver/usr/bin/fglrx_xgamma (its RPATH is '').
Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file.
To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512
make: *** [binary] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.lo8585


Has anyone experienced the same problem? Any help will be very appreciated!

The old installer 8.40 isn't reporting this error while building the packages but as it's not compatible with 2.6.23, I cannot fulfill the installation of fglrx.

Thanks to everyone in advance

[wirechief]

try kanotix rc7, ive had success with ATI drivers using it.

[deepsmoke]

Isn't kanotix a different distro of Linux? In general I feel at home in Debian, more than in others deb-based distros mostly because is the one I always used. I don't absolutely want to be harsh, but you know, reinstalling Linux changing the distro even if quite similar isn't that great (I've been using ubuntu for a short time and found several differences between them). fglrx worked fine on Debian till a week ago on older packages. This thing I'm experiencing has a few matches on web but I didn't realized what exactly is the solution. The only hint was a missing dependency but sounds strange that 8.40 installer isn't reporting this problem. As a matter of fact it doesn't seem to be the answer to the problem because no one posted the solution in the forum where the matter was questioned.

I actually have the direct rendering and OpenGL support because Xorg 7.3 has correctly detected the Video Card but the results are very poor (let's say half the stats I had on 2.6.22 with fglrx 8.40).

Hope I've been kind and not too confused (as I'm in reality because fglrx seems to be the doom of ATI's owners even if they told things would have changed)

Thanks anyway

[damentz]

dist-upgrade and try again, I had the same error yesterday. For some reason it works again tho.

[deepsmoke]

dist-upgrade and try again, I had the same error yesterday. For some reason it works again tho.

That's a great news but I hope you'll assist me: unfortunately I've just launched a dist-upgrade and found 23 packages to be upgraded, related to pango and sylpheed (no good...). After rebooting, the ati installer keeps returning that error. Do you have any idea on what kind of problem we are figuring?

I really thank you for your help, at least I'm not alone!

[Kano]

Put ati-installer(s) into /usr/src then you don't need to dl it again and just execute my script - presinstalled with Kanotix but should work for Debian and Ubuntu too.

http://kanotix.com/files/install-fglrx-debian.sh

You can go back to 7-11 using

-v 7-11

option. Same works for many older versions and kernel 2.6.23, for 2.6.24 only 8.39.4 and newer works [there is a check included that it will not even tried on wrong kernel].

[deepsmoke]

Put ati-installer(s) into /usr/src then you don't need to dl it again and just execute my script - presinstalled with Kanotix but should work for Debian and Ubuntu too.

http://kanotix.com/files/install-fglrx-debian.sh

You can go back to 7-11 using

-v 7-11

option. Same works for many older versions and kernel 2.6.23, for 2.6.24 only 8.39.4 and newer works [there is a check included that it will not even tried on wrong kernel].

I want to start my reply saying that is an honor to work with a Debian Developer.
Unfortunately lady luck seems to be against me. I've put the installer 8.443 in /usr/src. Then I launched your script. It was able to build the packages but selected Ubuntu edgy as type (is it ok?). I installed the packages anyway and the module was built but not placed in the kernel (solved by adding it in /etc/modules and rebooting just to be sure). This is the fglrx grep on the dmesg once rebooted:

fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 432 MBytes.
[fglrx] ASYNCIO init succeed!
[fglrx] PAT is enabled successfully!
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.44.3 [Dec 19 2007] on minor 0

Your script auto-edited the xorg.conf that looked like:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "1"
# Option "RENDER" "1"
EndSection


But in the end startx doesn't work properly, X hangs while starting leading me to a black screen with no chance to return in text mode using Ctrl Alt Backspace nor Ctrl Alt F*. Ctrl Alt Del is the only accepted and once back to normal this is the Xlog:


(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === begin, [x]
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0
(II) fglrx(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(II) fglrx(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
"Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 8/8
(EE) fglrx(0): Given depth (8) is not supported by fglrx driver
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitVisual failed
SetVBEMode failed
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === end
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found


This error is the same I got when I've tried to install the fglrx-driver from the non-free packages. Any hint?

Hope I've written what you need to figure a way out,
Thanks a lot

[deepsmoke]

Put ati-installer(s) into /usr/src then you don't need to dl it again and just execute my script - presinstalled with Kanotix but should work for Debian and Ubuntu too.

http://kanotix.com/files/install-fglrx-debian.sh

You can go back to 7-11 using

-v 7-11

option. Same works for many older versions and kernel 2.6.23, for 2.6.24 only 8.39.4 and newer works [there is a check included that it will not even tried on wrong kernel].

I want to start my reply saying that is an honor to interact with a Debian Developer.

Unfortunately seems like Lady Luck is against me. I've put the ati installer in /usr/src and downloaded your script. Once executed, it was able to create debs and module but he detected an Ubuntu Edgy (is it normal?). Anyway the module was not inserted so I added fglrx in /etc/modules and rebooted just to be sure. Grepping fglrx in the dmesg returned:

fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 432 MBytes.
[fglrx] ASYNCIO init succeed!
[fglrx] PAT is enabled successfully!
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.44.3 [Dec 19 2007] on minor 0


Your script auto-edits xorg.conf that looked like:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "1"
# Option "RENDER" "1"
EndSection


Unfortunately startx doesn't lead to a normal situation and X hangs while starting getting a black screen with no chance to return in text mode by pressing Ctrl Alt Backspace or F*. Ctrl Alt Del is the only way out and once rebooted this is the only part of the Xlog complaining errors:

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === begin, [x]
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0
(II) fglrx(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(II) fglrx(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
"Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 8/8
(EE) fglrx(0): Given depth (8) is not supported by fglrx driver
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitVisual failed
SetVBEMode failed
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === end
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found


This error is the same I got when I've tried to install the fglrx-driver from non-free repo.

Thanks a lot for your help, I hope to have written all the useful infos to figure a way out

[deepsmoke]

I've posted the answer quoting the message from Kano but I have less than 5 posts so the answer was sent to a moderator. Sorry for this long time.

I want to start my reply saying that is an honor to interact with a Debian Developer. But Lady Luck seems to be against me. I've moved the ati installer in /usr/src and used the script you suggested. It was able to create the debs and build the module but detected an Ubuntu as OS (is it normal?). Anyway, I've inserted the module adding it in /etc/modules and rebooted just to be sure. Grepping fglrx on dmesg returned:

fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 432 MBytes.
[fglrx] ASYNCIO init succeed!
[fglrx] PAT is enabled successfully!
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.44.3 [Dec 19 2007] on minor 0


Your script autoedited the xorg.conf that looked like:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "1"
# Option "RENDER" "1"
EndSection


Unfortunately, X won't correctly work and hangs up while starting leading me to a black screen where only Ctrl Alt Del is allowed, not even the possibility to stop the Xsession nor moving to a terminal. This behavior is the same I got when installed fglrx-driver from non-free repo. Besides the error experienced looks the same in Xlog:

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === begin, [x]
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0
(II) fglrx(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(II) fglrx(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
"Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 8/8
(EE) fglrx(0): Given depth (8) is not supported by fglrx driver
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitVisual failed
SetVBEMode failed
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === end
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found


I hope I've been clear and posted all the useful infos to figure the problem out.

Thanks a lot for the help

[Kano]

My script modfies a "standard" xorg.conf, yours was non standard, best do this:

rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.1st

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Then create a "standard" xorg.conf and at last run my script again to modifiy it in a correct way.

[deepsmoke]

You xorg.conf is a bit too short. You have got no entry like:

Section "ServerLayout"
...
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection


Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

You could try Kanotix Thorhammer RC7 and boot with fglrx option then copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf to your hd. Btw. your old config is /etc/X11/xorg.conf.1st (which is always used for input for my script if there).

This xorg.conf is the default I've found once the installation was complete and correctly working. I also thought it was a little too short and searching for answers I realized that X 7.3 wants to minimize the usage of xorg.conf. I was used to launch sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to set driver,monitor, depth and others... But in X 7.3 the choose affects the keyboard only. Now I'll try to complete the xorg.conf and see the result. Thanks for the help.

BTW How comes that Ubuntu packaging achieve the goal while Debian fails, on a Debian unstable?!

[Kano]

That has nothing to do if you use Debian or Ubuntu packages, you just have several drawbacks when you create Debian ones: These will be updated as soon as Debian has the driver itself packaged and often the Debian create scripts have been broken (I did not like to patch the Debian target for each release). Basically only the package names are different.

Btw. I just tested the new sid reconfigure tool, the file is really extra short... When I have a bit more time i will add a workaround, right now edit manually or use

aticonfig --initial

this even worked with an empty xorg.conf (just touch xorg.conf) when you use -f option. It has some problems to parse the standard Debian file.

[deepsmoke]

This is the actual state of the system:

Thanks to Kano I was able to complete the xorg.conf so that looked more "verbose" as it was before X 7.3:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection


This xorg.conf doesn't obviously invoke fglrx as driver and returns the same behaviour of the default one but shows more infos. I have executed Kano's script and noticed something related to the module (last time screens were too fast to let me understand the whole thing). The module experiences problems while being built and I cannot install it with sudo m-a install fglrx-kernel-src. It suggests to take a look at:

/var/cache/modass/fglrx-kernel-src.buildlog.2.6.23-1-686.1200146510

dh_testroot
rm -f configure-stamp
rm -f fglrx.ko fglrx.mod.c *.o libfglrx_ip.a
rm -f .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
rm -rf .tmp_versions
rm -rf patch
dh_clean
rm /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control
rm /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/dirs
if [ -f /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control.template ]; then \
cat /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control.template > /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control; \
fi
if [ -f /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/postinst ]; then \
mv /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/postinst /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/fglrx-kernel-2.6.23-1-686.postinst; \
fi
dh_testdir
touch configure-stamp
dh_testdir
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/fglrx modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.23-1-686'
CC [M] /usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.o
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c: In function ‘__ke_check_pci’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:1953: warning: ‘pci_find_slot’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/pci.h:481)
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c: In function ‘__ke_pci_find_slot’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:2842: warning: ‘pci_find_slot’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/pci.h:481)
LD [M] /usr/src/modules/fglrx/fglrx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /usr/src/modules/fglrx/fglrx.mod.o
LD [M] /usr/src/modules/fglrx/fglrx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.23-1-686'
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
rm -f /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/dirs
sed -e 's/#KVERS#/2.6.23-1-686/g' \
-e 's/#VERSION#/8.443.1-1/g' debian/control.template > /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control
sed -e 's/#KVERS#/2.6.23-1-686/g' debian/dirs.template > /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/dirs
dh_installdirs
dh_install fglrx.ko lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/misc
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_installdocs
dh_installmodules
dh_link
dh_strip
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol -- -v8.443.1-1+2.6.23-2 -VXSERVER=xorg
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb --destdir=/usr/src
dpkg-deb: costruisco il pacchetto `fglrx-kernel-2.6.23-1-686' in `/usr/src/fglrx-kernel-2.6.23-1-686_8.443.1-1+2.6.23-2_i386.deb'.
dh_testroot
rm -f configure-stamp
rm -f fglrx.ko fglrx.mod.c *.o libfglrx_ip.a
rm -f .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
rm -rf .tmp_versions
rm -rf patch
dh_clean
rm /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control
rm /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/dirs
Build time: 8 seconds

I didn't catch what's wrong in the building of the module. Any hint?

Thanks I owe you a lot

[Kano]

The module was build. Thats not the problem. But why do you use now the old debian packages?

[deepsmoke]

The module was build. Thats not the problem. But why do you use now the old debian packages?

Excuse me but I didn't understand the last suggestion. What do you mean by saying "do you use now the old Debian packages?". Am I using something old or do I have to use something older?

Thanks in advance, I'm not very good with this stuff!

Besides sudo m-a install fglrx-kernel-src returns saying the module wasn't built correctly but I also had the impression the module was built.

[Kano]

You m-a command is wrong. When you use my script the module is build too. Your command would try to install the old fglrx source which is from debian then builds it fine but the last step goes wrong as it could not be installed because there is the other module package already installed. Please revert your change with fglrx in /etc/modules, thats wrong. If you want to switch from Ubuntu packages to Debian packages you need to do first

apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l|awk '/fglrx/{print $2}')

A similar command is in my script.

[deepsmoke]

You m-a command is wrong. When you use my script the module is build too. Your command would try to install the old fglrx source which is from debian then builds it fine but the last step goes wrong as it could not be installed because there is the other module package already installed. Please revert your change with fglrx in /etc/modules, thats wrong. If you want to switch from Ubuntu packages to Debian packages you need to do first

apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l|awk '/fglrx/{print $2}')

A similar command is in my script.

Maybe I've got it this time. Anyway, that bad command was suggested by module-assistant after it worked on the tarball and the rest. I didn't notice this dual existence of the module, sorry, I apologize.

When an installation doesn't seems to be correct, I always purge the module by sudo m-a purge --force [module], check /etc/modules to be sure it will not be loaded, then remove the packages purging them and finally copy the old xorg.conf. I think that nothing should survive and locate fgrlx after updatedb seems to agree.

Thanks as always, now I'll try out again.
I really appreciate your help and once the system will be ok, you can ask whatever you like (as developer maybe you need some sort of collaboration sometimes). I'm not a guru but I swear I'll follow your instructions, you helped me out a lot and somehow I want to return the help.

[Kano]

Btw booting Thorhammer with fglrx option would be much faster ;)

[deepsmoke]

Btw booting Thorhammer with fglrx option would be much faster ;)

Faster probably...But now I've received the best payment of every configuration...IT WORKS :D (Really, Thank you a lot! Without your script I would have been lost in the swamp, or in a swap :D.

This specific problem was solved thanks to the suggestions of Kano and here I will briefly expose the matter:

solved installation proprietary drivers ati 8.443-1 also known as 7.12 on debian sid unstable kernel 2.6.23-1 Xorg 7.3

1) X 7.3 doesn't like xorg.conf that much and the file is very short. However the generic ATI user has now strong opportunities to have his video card auto detected. If the video card is quite old, like my 9550 r300, the MESA drivers enable a little OpenGL Rendering but poor acceleration. This is the free driver radeon. For those who own r500 and later, there's a new open driver from X called radeonhd. Cannot say anything about configuration and stats of radeonhd.

2) It would be nice to install the proprietary drivers. Once downloaded the 8.443-1 installer from ATI's site, trying to create the *.deb packages with the flag of the installer through command line, returned errors.

3) Put the installer in /usr/bin and downloaded the script made by Kano. Once executed, it correctly creates the module fglrx. Edit /etc/modules and add the voice fglrx so that the module is loaded after rebooting.

4) To get all the stuff working correctly, xorg.conf must be edited. It should have changed after the launching of Kano's script. Following are the two stages of xorg.conf:

Before Kano's script execution:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "radeon" #Added by me, else the script won't work
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


After Kano's script:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device" #Added
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 24 #Added
SubSection "Display"#Added
Depth 24#Added
Modes "1280x1024"#Added
EndSubSection#Added
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout" #Added
Identifier "Default Layout"#Added
Screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0 #Added
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "1"
# Option "RENDER" "1"
EndSection


Be sure to have entered all the lines or X will probably complaining about Screens with no usable configuration due to the Depth 8 unsupported, giving a PreInitDial failure or something like that. This worked for me. I had to add those lines not because Kano's script is bad, simply it's not used to work on xorg.confs so poor like the one I've found as default in X 7.3.

Hope this post will be useful to someone and still want to thank Kano.

[Kano]

Nobody needs to edit /etc/modules to load fglrx, thats absolutely wrong. The module is outloaded when you start the X server.

[deepsmoke]

Nobody needs to edit /etc/modules to load fglrx, thats absolutely wrong. The module is outloaded when you start the X server.

Ah ok sorry, didn't catch it. The question seems to be solved by DefaultColorDepth 24, but in the lines above I've told everything I've done to get fglrx enabled.

We're going off topic but I want to ask you something:
your installer successfully creates the *.deb, using Ubuntu/edgy. So I thought that executing the installer with the flag --buildpkg Ubuntu/edgy would have done it the same way. This doesn't happen. Why does your installer work? If this is not the place, we can continue the discussion via mail. If you don't have interesting in explaining the question I won't blame you.

[Kano]

My script is more intelligent, it extracts the installer and adds a hotfix for that issue.

[deepsmoke]

Ok thanks for all your efforts. I've downloaded Kanotix RC7 and I promise I'll check it out :D. If you ever need me (I know that it has the same chance of a man trying to avoid a wall using tunnel effect) , ask. I owe you one