Hi,

I am trying to enable the desktop effects on Scientific Linux 5.4, but
it does not work on my ThinkPad laptop. I'm thinking about installing
some proprietary ATI driver on the machine.

Does anyone know where I can get it? I tried the ATI's website but couldn't
find one for my graphics card (RADEON Mobile M6).

Perhaps, the Scientific Linux's Contrib repository may have some available.

Thanks.

The open source drivers should work just fine. I'm not familiar with Scientif Linux, but every distribution I know of ships with the open source drivers by default, usually enabled, as well. Can you attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log to a post here?

Adam

Hi,

Here is the output of /var/log/xorg.0.log:

X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 i686 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux slinux 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 23:11:58 EST 2009 i686
Build Date: 07 September 2009
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-48.67.el5
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Dec 3 15:15:29 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Multihead layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) | |-->Device "Videocard0"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen1" (1)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor1"
(**) | |-->Device "Videocard1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(==) |-->Input Device "<default pointer>"
(==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
Using the default mouse configuration.
(==) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default.
(==) FontPath set to:
unix/:7100,
built-ins
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(**) Option "Xinerama" "off"
(==) Max clients allowed: 512, resource mask: 0xfffff
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3
X.Org Video Driver: 1.0
X.Org XInput driver : 0.6
X.Org Server Extension : 0.3
X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libbitmap.so
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libpcidata.so
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(++) using VT number 7
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.6.3) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
(II) Loading sub module "radeon"
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
(II) Loading sub module "radeon"
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveScreen(2)
(WW) Not including screen "Screen0" in origins calculation.

Are you sure that's the full log file? Are you using two screens?

Hi,

As the log file is overwhelmingly large for this posting, I tried to shorten it.
If you can tell me what section in the file you're looking for, I can paste it again.

I'm not actually using two monitors. I chose that setting to make my screen resolution
work at 1024x768 for the laptop. For some reason, without this weird setting, the resolution
always defaults to 600x400 poorly.

Thanks.

I would really need to see th whole thing. You can use a service like http://pastebin.com/ . One thing I did notice is that your X server was released 3.5 years ago. In the world of open source video drivers, that's nearly an eternity.

Adam