I’m not sure if this is the right area for this post, but I’m having a problem with my login that I believe stems from the recent installation of a new ATI driver, fglrx. First, I’m running Suse 11.1, KDE 3.5.10 and I have two user accounts. I installed the ATI driver for my video card using 1-click as listed at ATI - openSUSE. It didn’t go well, to say the least. I got it working so I could log into my one, recently created user accounts and everything works well there. However, my other account is un-useable. If I try to log into it, the splash screen that comes up while kde is loading flashes to black screens several times and takes a long time to load. Then when I get in, the apps load soooo slowly. Nothing responds to my mouse clicks and it never finishes loading everything. I tried killing running processes in ctrl-alt-f1 using ‘top’, but when I go back into f7, everything is the same and the system is still hung up. Does anybody know what is wrong and what I could do to fix it?
rks171 adjusted his/her AFDB on Thursday 16 Jul 2009 00:16 to write:
>
> I’m not sure if this is the right area for this post, but I’m having a
> problem with my login that I believe stems from the recent installation
> of a new ATI driver, fglrx. First, I’m running Suse 11.1, KDE 3.5.10
> and I have two user accounts. I installed the ATI driver for my video
> card using 1-click as listed at ‘ATI - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Ati). It didn’t go well, to say the least. I
> got it working so I could log into my one, recently created user
> accounts and everything works well there. However, my other account is
> un-useable. If I try to log into it, the splash screen that comes up
> while kde is loading flashes to black screens several times and takes a
> long time to load. Then when I get in, the apps load soooo slowly.
> Nothing responds to my mouse clicks and it never finishes loading
> everything. I tried killing running processes in ctrl-alt-f1 using
> ‘top’, but when I go back into f7, everything is the same and the system
> is still hung up. Does anybody know what is wrong and what I could do
> to fix it?
>
>
If one account is OK and the other runs slow then I doubt it is the ATI
drivers as they both use them.
Have you got the desktop effects enabled in one and not the other?
Do you have beagle, nepomuk, strigi, kerry running or any semantic desktop
search?
If so either stop them or plain uninstall.
First thing I would do while in the slow running one would be to rename the
…kde4 directory ( note the “.” this means it is hidden to view it go to the
View menu in your filemanager and show hidden files ).
Rename it to something like .kde4-bak and then log out and back in again,
any difference ( note all your settings will have been set back to default.
If it runs OK then you know it was some setting that was causing the prob.
HTH
Mark
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Okay, I renamed the .kde4 directory and that did the trick. It loads fine and runs fine now.
Have you got the desktop effects enabled in one and not the other?
What particular desktop effects? I was attempting to get compiz-fusion working by installing the ATI driver, but I don’t remember making any changes to that immediatly before the problem occurred. The only thing I remember doing was installing the ATI driver, logging out to run the commands listed in the wiki, but getting a blank screen instead of a command prompt.
Do you have beagle, nepomuk, strigi, kerry running or any semantic desktop
search?
I’m not sure what any of this is, so I don’t think so.
You were right, it was compositing that was screwing it up. I booted into failsafe and into a command prompt, logged into the user account that was causing problems, restored the original .kde4 directory that was causing me problems, cd’d to /home/<username>/.kde4/share/config, and opened kwinrc with vi. I set the compositing enabled=‘true’ to ‘false’, wrote the file, and exited back to the command prompt. Typed ‘startx’ and everything works fine and my desktop is restored.
Thanks so much for the quick reply, this one was driving me nuts. Now… do I dare try the driver install again? Those desktop effects are pretty sweet.
Sounds like you have an issue with effects. How does glxgears run for you? (Just type that in a terminal)
What ati device is it, what driver have you installed.
In Yast - Hardware - Graphics…
Is the 3D box checked?
You may of course, just have to live without effects.
caf4926 adjusted his/her AFDB on Thursday 16 Jul 2009 05:46 to write:
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> Sounds like you have an issue with effects. How does glxgears run for
> you? (Just type that in a terminal)
> What ati device is it, what driver have you installed.
>
> In Yast - Hardware - Graphics…
> Is the 3D box checked?
>
> You may of course, just have to live without effects.
>
>
I will second what caf said, looks like the ATi drivers did not take.
Can you give us a clue as to your hardware?
Some cards are not supported by the 1-click and you might have to go the
hard way to get your card working.
Also can you cut&paste your xorg.conf ( /etc/X11/xorg.conf ) no need for the
fonts stuff.
I must admit I am a bit rusty with KDE3.5`s performance with the effects so
YMMV.
HTH
Mark
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I tried the tests listed in the ATI/Testing wiki (including the one you mentinoed) and they all worked out well. glxgears ran several tests at 5 seconds coming out to like 1100 fps. The ATI device is Radeon X1650 and the driver is fglrx.
Xorg.conf
# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2009-07-16T07:59:50-0400.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "IgnoreABI" "on"
Option "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
DisplaySize 410 257
HorizSync 30-84
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "E19T6W"
Option "DPMS"
Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900"
VendorName "EMA"
VertRefresh 43-76
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1440x900" 89 1440 1488 1520 1600 900 903 909 926 +hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection
Section "Device"
BoardName "Radeon X1650 Series (RV535 71C7)"
Driver "fglrx"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "0x8778a48"
Option "Capabilities" "0x877a008"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "0x81c1408"
Option "FSAAScale" "0x877b650"
Option "FSAAEnable" "0x877b600"
Option "VideoOverlay" "0x8778ab8"
Screen 0
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"
EndSection
I ran glxgears again today and it ran a little different. Instead of having a box that rotates around really fast with gears in it, it just has a set of slow moving gears (see pic below).
So, I have 3D acceleration enabled in Yast>Graphics card and monitor, my card seems to be showing up correctly in Graphics card and monitor, and I have several effects selected in compiz confusion, but none of them are happening. Am I missing something?
rks171@linux-dnh3:~> glxgears
12890 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2577.407 FPS
13395 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2678.977 FPS
13658 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2731.321 FPS
13757 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2751.380 FPS
13029 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2604.668 FPS
13373 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2674.024 FPS
13654 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2730.799 FPS
13226 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2645.114 FPS
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rks171 adjusted his/her AFDB on Friday 17 Jul 2009 13:06 to write:
>
> I ran glxgears again today and it ran a little different. Instead of
> having a box that rotates around really fast with gears in it, it just
> has a set of slow moving gears (see pic below).
Yep that is the linux glxgears the one you ran before was the ATI version
which shows a cube with the gears on the faces that is fine at least it
shows that the fglrx is being used.
I cannot remember if you told me what exact card you had so cannot comment
on the speed but it looks OK it all depends on what you have running as well
and how the drivers are setup, I get totally different results with/without
kwin effects enabled and also with/without vsync on ( vsync is best off all
the time )
>
> So, I have 3D acceleration enabled in Yast>Graphics card and monitor,
> my card seems to be showing up correctly in Graphics card and monitor,
> and I have several effects selected in compiz confusion, but none of
> them are happening. Am I missing something?
>
I have never used compiz in anger, I have it installed on this machine
butonly use it if I log into xfce so I must admit I know next to nothing
about the config.
You might be better starting a new thread about that in the applications
forum.
HTH
Mark
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