On 9 Oct 2016 12:09 am, "Drake Donahue" <donahu...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 20:35 +1100, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
> > This relates to my ATI driver conflict with xorg-server problem.
> > Sorry if this comes though in html format I did not realise the last
> > one was in html mode.
> > I'm trying the solution to stop using fglrx and just use the radeon
> > driver,
> > however I'm getting weird problems.
> >
> > I removed fglrx from VIDEO_CARDS. Enabled radeon driver as a module i
> >
> > the kernel,
> > plus several other options recommended by the wiki.
> > First I hacked \etc\X11\xorg.conf to removed the ATI specific code,
> > however I get the same problem with X -configure code.
> >
> > Googling the actual error "Screen 0 deleted because of no matching
> > config section"
> > shows that its not that, its some kind of driver problem.
> >
> > Any hints on what else I can try? I don't want to try the other
> > alternative (use fglrx with old versions of xorg-server and the
> > input-evdev,video-ati drivers) yet.
>
> Assuming you run udev or eudev and dbus, recommend you delete or rename
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf and allow the xorg server provided script to run and
> do the configuration for you.
> If xorg still fails, recommend you run
> awk
> '/CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO/,/CONFIG_SOUND/' /usr/src/linux/.config
> and
> provide the result here or in a pastebin.
>
With no xorg. conf get
Open /dev/dri/card0: no such file or directory
I do have udev with no custom setup.
There is no output from that awk, CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not in .config
