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FIX: Steam crashes when using radeon driver

12 June 2014 | ati arch linux defense of the ancients error amd guide linux steam gaming dota | Comment

Symptoms

Steam crashes upon opening, after verifying the installation and before opening the main interface, with something about the OpenGL context not supporting direct rendering. Soon afterwards, the X server crashes. (I'm not crashing my computer again just to find the exact error message, thank… »
Adventures in Arch: Part 2 - Is It Working Yet?

03 January 2014 | misc arch linux error rant intel amd guide linux hybrid graphics | Comment

Let's Get Some Hybrid Graphics Up In Here!
```
if [ ! -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf ]; then
        sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
fi
startx /usr/bin/openbox-session -- :1
```
How simple was that? And my script for starting X on my integrated card is about the same (only using XFCE,… »
Adventures in Arch: Part 1 - Goodbyee Ubuntu!

29 November 2013 | ati arch linux intel amd linux hybrid graphics video | Comment

Introduction
Well, this is it… This is the moment every Linux user dreads: It's time… to install Arch Linux.

Why am I doing this? How has the moment come so soon?? I thought I had more time!! Well in a nutshell, it's because (as my… »