[27136] in Athena Bugs
Re: m12-182-[1-3] should have fglrx installed the Right Way
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Oct 23 14:22:31 2007
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To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:22:19 -0400
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
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> 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.
These machines were losing because they're recent replacements for
Sunblades, and they still have the old cluster info. They should get
updated shortly.
> 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.)
Machines which are both PUBLIC=true and have linux cluster info in hesiod
get, by virtue of running /etc/athena/install-proprietary-x-drivers at
boot time, both the drivers and some support files dumped into /etc/ati
which make the drivers aware of what hardware they support and so forth.
> 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.
This word "fixed" may not mean what you think it means. It's been
longstanding (though contentious) policy to keep cluster installs at
1280x1024. Since we're now getting monitors which are larger and crisper
it may be time to revisit this, but currently everything should be
getting force-installed at 1280x1024 and (if PUBLIC=true and the
fix-xconfig script has kept up with the state of the xorg packages) it
should always get reset to 1280x1024 at boot time.
Thanks for the bug reports and for getting the cluster machines online.
I'll bring up the default resolution issue (again) at the next
release-team meeting.
