Problem with fglrx

[agge92]

After a frash installation of Sabayon 14 x64 KDE I followed the guide: https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?titl ... in_Sabayon
for the installation of the proprietary catalyst driver(for my HD 7770), and after the reboot, Kwin crashed and after this it wasnt possible to set correctly the compositor opengl 2.0 or above and I can't run Steam! with my games =_= (on the opening of steam a message of error pop-up: glXChooseVisual failed ) so, I tried to install the driver linux x64 from the site of amd (before I removed amdcccle) and seems nothing changed, the compositor of opengl is still broken, and the amd catalyst control center after the launching of the application, it does nothing....Now I want to try to come back to the open drivers, but I still prefer in some way run the steam games with my gpu totally. And I dont know how to remove the fglrx that I installed from the site of AMD...Someone can help me in both this task?(1st try to set correctly the proprietary driver, and if persist the malfunction,(2nd) try to get back to opensource drivers )

[imaginasys]

Have a look at thsi:

https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?titl ... in_Sabayon

Check if you booted with kernel option : nomodeset

And be prepared to work from the console without any graphic environment...

Regards,
BT

[batvink]

Is "fglrx" specified as the driver in Xorg?

This will modify an existing xorg.conf to use the fglrx driver with a single screen:

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aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

For dual-head configuration use this instead (where the second screen is [left|right|above|below]):

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aticonfig --initial=dual-head --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf --screen-layout=[left|right|above|below]

Set the OpenGL driver to use fglrx:

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eselect opengl set ati

Don't have a xorg.conf?
You can simply create one in /etc/X11/ or let Xorg create one for you:

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X -configure

Location of the generated xorg.conf is: /root/xorg.conf.new

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cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[agge92]

yes I followed all that thinks that you say and booted with nomoeset...
and tha eselect opengl set ati seems dont work after kwin crash with opengl impostations

[batvink]

hmmmm.
eselect mesa set to gallium ?

• eselect mesa list
  i915 (Intel 915, 945)
  [1] classic
  [2] gallium *
  i965 (Intel GMA 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x, HD)
  [1] classic *
  r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
  [1] gallium *
  r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands)
  [1] gallium *
  sw (Software renderer)
  [1] classic
  [2] gallium *

[agge92]

hmmmm.
eselect mesa set to gallium ?

• eselect mesa list
  i915 (Intel 915, 945)
  [1] classic
  [2] gallium *
  i965 (Intel GMA 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x, HD)
  [1] classic *
  r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
  [1] gallium *
  r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands)
  [1] gallium *
  sw (Software renderer)
  [1] classic
  [2] gallium *

eh?
(however, I reinstalled again the os without adding the closed source driver, because it seems dont work properly because of the crash of Kwin)

[Darksurf]

When you booted from the live disk, did you go to advanced options and disable KMS for FGLRX?

Then you may install the distro.