MrWhisp Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Hi, After some help from you guys I finally managed to install the ATI drivers and use the Big Desktop mode to stretch the desktop over my internal laptop screen and my external LCD screen. My problem is that X starts, I see the login manager perfectly. I login and I see the login process works fine... But then everything went black and I have to restart the computer. Anyone know how to fix this problem? /MrWhisp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Post the relevant parts from /var/log/X.0.log (or some name like that) here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Xorg.0.log is the filename. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWhisp Posted April 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 I got some warnings: (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (WW) fglrx(1): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd0840000,0x4c2000) and (II) fglrx(1): driver needs XFree86 version: 4.3.x (WW) fglrx(1): Could not detect XFree86 version Which is strange since the driver is for Xorg 6.8... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 WW = warning. You need to look for EE = errors :). Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. It's not strange that fglrx couldn't detect XFree86 since you're using Xorg :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWhisp Posted April 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 I would have posted the errors if there would have been any... Strangely, there are no errors. The driver works okay when I use single or laptop mode, but in big desktop and dual head it freezes. Could it be that I have an internal laptop monitor and one external? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWhisp Posted April 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 I finally located the problem to be a kde issue, not an ATI or Xorg problem. When I use ATI Big Desktop or Dual Head and log into a kde user where no kde settings has been made, it works. But as soon as I change some kde settings, logs out and try to log in again kde freezes when attempting to restore the session. I use kde 3.2.3 and the support for dual screens might be approved in later versions. /MrWhisp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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