Hi guys, I'll try and be as brief as I can.
I'm running a laptop with ATI display graphics and I'm trying to install the driver package: xorg-xf86-video-ati (7.1.0) using the command "tazhw setup ati", with the hope of being able to use an external display.
All seems to go well until the end whereby xterm displays the following:
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Do you want to configure X using free ATI (radeon) driver (y/N) ? y
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Your previous config is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf
If ATI fails, you can remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/55-DeviceTweaks.conf to restore previous config.
Create 55-DeviceTweaks.conf configured with radeon driver.
cp: can't stat '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf': No such file or directory
sed: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/55-DeviceTweaks.conf: No such file or directory
Checking if ATI radeon is working...
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
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After a reboot things initially seemed stable and more display options do become available to me - xrandr now reports both of my monitors correctly (whereas it failed to detect them at all before the installation attempt eventhough both were working), and lxpanel gives me more resolution settings. Both monitors still seemingly work okay at this point (LVDS laptop screen & external VGA monitor)
However when then successfully turning off the LVDS screen (via software) in order to just have the VGA monitor running on its own, the external VGA monitor then becomes really glitchy with brief smudging cloning and artifacts being displayed at random intervals - especally being more prominant when manipulating windows and moving the mouse cursor?
Any ideas what could be going on here?
*** Brief system info ***
Slitaz release 5.0 RC-2
Linux slitaz 3.2.53-slitaz i686 GNU/Linux
Lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RC410 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RC4xx/RS4xx PCI Bridge [int gfx]
00:12.0 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RC410M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200M]
09:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
09:04.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
Longer version: http://pastebin.com/NcsrMp0D
Attached file: Xorg.0.log
Just give a nod if more info required, thanks.