[27135] in Athena Bugs
m12-182-[1-3] should have fglrx installed the Right Way
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Oct 23 12:05:20 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:04:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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I found m12-182-[1-3] at the console login with a handwritten sign
indicating "system software loading, please wait for the login screen"
(signed "IS/Athena [sic] -J"). Since the cluster was filling up, I decided
to make X start working: I copied the missing modules, fglrx_drv.o and
libfglrxdrm.a off an adjacent, (apparently) identical hardware, working
computer. This mostly works, save for a translucent "AMD Unsupported
Hardware" icon in the bottom-right. I don't know the right way to fix
this, but it should get fixed. (fglrx should have probably been installed
originally.)
Also, I fixed the resolutions of basically all the 20" monitors both in
here and in m1-142 to 1680x1050 (rather than, uh, 1024x768). This should
happen automatically.
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
