I found a few posts which said that your 'undefined symbol: GlxInitVisuals2D' problem could be fixed on Gentoo using 'eselect opengl set ati.' It was that which led me to the section at Problems with fglrx - ThinkWiki that I posted above.
I have completely removed everything related to fglrx and begun reinstalling from scratch. I believe I have found the cause of the original problem. There is no package for the module for amd64: you have to build it yourself. When everything else was updated, this package needed to be updated manually (hence why the module no longer loads). I tried to build an up-to-date version using `m-a a-i fglrx', but get the following error:
Code:
(...SNIP...)
CC [M] /usr/src/modules/fglrx/kcl_agp.o
CC [M] /usr/src/modules/fglrx/kcl_debug.o
CC [M] /usr/src/modules/fglrx/kcl_ioctl.o
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/kcl_ioctl.c: In function
‘KCL_IOCTL_AllocUserSpace32’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/kcl_ioctl.c:196: error: implicit declaration of
function ‘compat_alloc_user_space’
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/kcl_ioctl.c:196: warning: return makes pointer
from integer without a cast
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/modules/fglrx/kcl_ioctl.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/fglrx] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64'
make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/fglrx'
make: *** [kdist_image] Error 2
Googling this error, I get mixed messages. Some places say it is already fixed, others say it is a known bug with a not-yet-available fix. I found a manual solution for Ubuntu, but this does not appear to work on Debian.
Last edited by Elric of Grans; 12-18-2010 at 09:13 PM..
Reason: Missing a key word.
Yes, I am using that version, through the fglrx-source package. Interestingly, the last deb I built (when I first installed) was also that version, so it looks as though this package has not been updated in a while. There has been a change in kernel, however, which necessitates a rebuild of the module (and explains why the old build no longer works).
I gave that a go, but it does not build the packages. Perhaps because of differences between Lenny and Squeeze? It did not seem to find things where it was looking for them (looking in /lib/X11R6/lib86, which does not exist).
I have continued playing around with the Ubuntu manual solution I mentioned before and managed to tweak it for Debian (kludged the kludge: I need a shower). I have managed to build 8.12 against the current kernel and installed the package. Things still do not seem to work, however. If I reboot with the xorg.config file set for ATI, X fails to load with errors of the driver not existing. Seems obvious enough: make sure the module is loaded.
$ dmesg
(...SNIP...)
[ 68.225514] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[ 68.271664] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 2870 MBytes.
[ 68.271664] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes
[ 68.271664] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads
[ 68.271664] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed
I only use about 5% of my memory, so I doubt I am out. Reading around on Google, I found references to this issue with older cards, but mine is fairly recent and this is the same source as the module I used perfectly fine all year.
I have currently reverted to the default xorg.config (not using the fglrx driver). The low res is ugly, but at least I can copy errors across to Iceweasel.
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