How to fix error with ATI driver "Error of failed request"?

Question

I installed the fglrx catalyst proprietary driver via this link : http://cisight.com/install-amd-radeon-hd-6470m-and-solve-overheat-on-ubuntu-1110-oneiric/

Running fglrxinfo or glxinfo | grep render returns :

X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request:  136 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request:  12
Current serial number in output stream:  12

my xorg is :

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

How may I solve it?

could you open a terminal and copy and paste glxinfo | grep render and post the output here ? — martin, Nov 21 '11 at 16:21
1@1-HP-Pavilion-g6-Notebook-PC:~$ glxinfo | grep render X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) Major opcode of failed request: 136 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString) Serial number of failed request: 12 Current serial number in output stream: 12 — user34785, Nov 21 '11 at 16:45
@user34785 Please click edit on your question and add the information there, thanks! — Jorge Castro, Nov 21 '11 at 18:29
In my very similar problem (xorg.conf is a bit different) I get these maybe problematic lines in Xorg.0.log : — danjjl, Dec 21 '11 at 08:31
Moving on in my problem : lsmod | grep fglrx doesn't return anything. — danjjl, Dec 21 '11 at 08:47
Have you tried this tutorial: http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/12/how-to-install-amd-catalyst-1112-linux.html — user39285, Dec 25 '11 at 17:30
Nope I haven't specifically followed those but wiki.cchtml.com gives similar instructions with more details — danjjl, Dec 25 '11 at 20:44

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 25 '11 at 11:41

6

Check if fglrx isn't blacklisted.

To do that you can grep through all of the files in /etc/modprobe.d/:

grep fglrx /etc/modprobe.d/*

In my case this gives following output:

blacklist-local.conf:blacklist fglrx
fglrx.conf:# This file was installed by fglrx
fglrx.conf:alias fglrx fglrx

All I had to do is to edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf file and comment out line with "blacklist fglrx" by inserting "#" in front of the line. So it looks like this now:

# blacklist fglrx

I hope you could understand what i am writting here and it will help you solve your problem.

answered Dec 25 '11 at 11:41

Gumili

111

4

Hmm nice idea but it isn't blacklisted – danjjl Dec 25 '11 at 12:56
I'll be awarding you the bounty, because I find you gave the most helpful answer. (Even though it did not help me) – danjjl Dec 27 '11 at 21:11
This solved every problem with catalyst 12.4 driver for me. Why it was blacklisted in the first place beats me. Thanks!!! – JavierIEH Jul 22 '12 at 23:16

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '13 at 19:02

2

What worked for me:

Use propriety drivers through the "Additional Drivers" application. Going for a manual install of upstream drivers is unnecessary. Open terminal and enter:

sudo aticonfig --initial

and restart your computer. That's it.

answered Feb 03 '13 at 19:02

Zuhaib Ali

206

jet · Answer 3 · 2011-12-25T15:06:32.160

2

there is a nice script smxi for ATI / Nvidia try this:

   sudo su
   mkdir video
   cd video
   wget -Nc smxi.org/sgfxi
   chmod +x sgfxi
   ./sgfxi

the script automatically stops X server, detects the video card type, downloads the last video driver from vendor's site, backups xorg.conf and installs the driver

edited Dec 25 '11 at 15:06

answered Dec 25 '11 at 00:06

jet

7,274

This solution worked for me! – pagliuca Aug 25 '15 at 21:50

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 11 '12 at 08:13

Hey I got the same problem:

X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request:  136 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request:  12
Current serial number in output stream:  12

When I did:

fglrxinfo

It gave me the same output:

X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request:  136 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request:  12
Current serial number in output stream:  12

So I followed the instructions in this link then it worked.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 21 '11 at 17:30

1

That tutorial is simply full of wrong steps and commands and do not describe correctly every passage.

Watch this if you want a good resource for docs http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page

answered Nov 21 '11 at 17:30

Micro

2,158

Following the instructions did not solve the problem (at least for me) – danjjl Dec 20 '11 at 20:38

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 22 '12 at 02:09

0

If all other comments did not work, try this one.. (for ATI users) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

answered Jul 22 '12 at 02:09

Smile.Hunter

8,365

user285684 · Answer 7 · 2014-05-27T06:34:59.407

Having tried several tricks that did not work, I ventured the sgfxi mentioned above. Unfortunately, it stopped when it was about to install the proprietary driver telling me to uninstall another driver installation. But, it did not look like any driver was installed, so I could not uninstall ... and X was broken.

However, it was not too bad, because I had already downloaded the propritary drivers (14.10) from amd and created the three deb packages, and ran:

sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb

Then X worked again, and the request bug had disappeared.

See section 3.1. here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD

AMD-driver: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-linux-beta-driver.aspx

It looks like sgfxi had removed enough of the old installation to make the re-installed driver work without the bug.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 28 '15 at 10:08

Check the output of lspci to confirm that your AMD/ATI video card is listed. Seriously!

lspci | grep VGA

After wasting hours removing and reinstalling my video drivers with no difference it turned out my that PCIe card needed to be removed and reinstalled! /facepalm

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 21 '11 at 17:00

Something went wrong during your installation. Remove fglrx first:

 sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
 sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
 sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri fglrx-modaliases

Now you can try installing fglrx again. Run jockey-gtk and install the proposed driver.

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