HELP!! fglrx with ATI X1600 and AMD64 doesn't start

Berin · Oct 3, 2006, 01:33 PM

Hello,

after days of trying myself I urgently need some help now.
I bought an Acer notebook with AMD Turion 64 X2 and ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (128 MB Video-RAM onboard and up to 512MB shared).
I installed Ubuntu 6.06 64bit and everything worked fine, except the card just runs in VESA mode and low resolutions.

Every try to install fglrx driver (from packages and also compiled the newest 8.29.6 myself) ended with a X-Server that couldn't start, although the chipset was correctly detected. The error was the following in Xorg.log:

Code:

(WW) ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x9000 e: 0x90ff correcting 
(...) 
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x9000 end: 0x90ff size 0xc0120100 
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x9400 end: 0x94ff size 0xc0120100 
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x9800 end: 0x98ff size 0xc0120100 
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x9c00 end: 0x9cff size 0xc0120100 
(EE) Cannot find a replacement memory range 
(...) 
(EE) fglrx(0): RegisterResources failed 
SetVBEMode failed 
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed

The whole listing of Xorg.log can be found at http://www.ubuntuusers.de/paste/4003/. My Xorg.conf can be seen here: http://www.ubuntuusers.de/paste/4004/.

Maybe there is some chance to alter the memory address in the configuration - but I don't know how. In the bios, I cannot change something about the card's memory.

Hope somebody has got an idea!?

Thanx,

Berin

bug77 · Oct 4, 2006, 04:36 AM

I found this odd thing on ATI's website:
Note: The following 32 bit packages must be installed in order for 64 bit drivers to install and work properly:
· XFree86-Mesa-libGL
· libstdc++
· libgcc
· XFree86-libs
· fontconfig
· expat
· freetype
· zlib
Maybe it helps...

Berin · Oct 5, 2006, 02:20 PM

Thanks for the suggestion. I've read this as well and installed the packages before, cos I think they are needed for compiling the drivers.

But unfortunately they still don't work.

kthxnub · Oct 12, 2006, 04:25 PM

I am having the exact same problem. Changing the config to load Radeon drivers makes X server unable to start. I'd appreciate it if someone could help me out, I hate having to use generic drivers.

larfingshnew · Oct 16, 2006, 01:18 AM

I have an Acer aspire 5112, and I was having the same problem. I heard that Ubuntu 6.1 Beta (Edgy Eft) comes with xorg 7.1.1 so I figured I'd give it a try, and TADA! now it works!

I don't think you can get xorg 7.1 on ubuntu 6.0 through packages, although you may be able to compile it yourself. I hear its a complicated process though, well over my head.

Anyways, hope this helps.

Berin · Oct 31, 2006, 10:18 AM

YES! With Edgy and XOrg 7.1 it finally works!