official ATI driver refuses to work under 9.1 / kernel 2.6
I'm having problems getting the official ATI driver installed under SuSE 9.1, using kernel 2.6 (2.6.4-54.5-default exactly) and XFree86 4.3. i installed the kernel source and grabbed the .rpm from ati (fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm). i installed it as described on the ATI site and the output suggests that no errors occured. the complete output of the installation scripts can be found at http://www.sp1r1t.de/div/ati_linux/ati_linux.txt as lsmod shows, the module is loaded, but 3d acceleration is not available and there are some errors in the X logs that are no doubt related to the kernel module (it is called fglrx), especially the following lines : drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx" (II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed! (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* * (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xc0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000 (II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1280,8191) (II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1280,1024) (front color buffer - assumption) (==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled (==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1024) (II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7163 (**) Option "dpms" (**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) but i don't know what to try now. the complete X11 logs can be found at http://www.sp1r1t.de/div/ati_linux/xf86log.txt any suggestions? thanx in advance, Tim
If you downloaded them off the ATI website, then they state there that they do not work with kernel 2.6............. George On Tuesday 01 June 2004 08:39, Tim wrote:
I'm having problems getting the official ATI driver installed under SuSE 9.1, using kernel 2.6 (2.6.4-54.5-default exactly) and XFree86 4.3.
i installed the kernel source and grabbed the .rpm from ati (fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm).
i installed it as described on the ATI site and the output suggests that no errors occured.
the complete output of the installation scripts can be found at http://www.sp1r1t.de/div/ati_linux/ati_linux.txt
as lsmod shows, the module is loaded, but 3d acceleration is not available and there are some errors in the X logs that are no doubt related to the kernel module (it is called fglrx), especially the following lines :
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx" (II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed! (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* * (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xc0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000 (II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1280,8191) (II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1280,1024) (front color buffer - assumption) (==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled (==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1024) (II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7163 (**) Option "dpms" (**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
but i don't know what to try now.
the complete X11 logs can be found at http://www.sp1r1t.de/div/ati_linux/xf86log.txt
any suggestions? thanx in advance,
Tim
George Reynolds
If you downloaded them off the ATI website, then they state there that they do not work with kernel 2.6.............
there is a subdir 2.6.x/ under fglrx/build_mod/, and the scripts that were launched after i installed the driver via rpm built a module for my 2.6 kernel. i also managed to build one by hand, and its extension is ".ko", not ".o". i found threats in different online forums where people claim they have the driver running under 2.6. i think the documentation at ATI is simply outdated or shall suggest that the driver is not supported under kernel 2.6, but i think it is possible to get it running.
George
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 08:39, Tim wrote:
I'm having problems getting the official ATI driver installed under SuSE 9.1, using kernel 2.6 (2.6.4-54.5-default exactly) and XFree86 4.3.
i installed the kernel source and grabbed the .rpm from ati (fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm).
i installed it as described on the ATI site and the output suggests that no errors occured.
the complete output of the installation scripts can be found at http://www.sp1r1t.de/div/ati_linux/ati_linux.txt
as lsmod shows, the module is loaded, but 3d acceleration is not available and there are some errors in the X logs that are no doubt related to the kernel module (it is called fglrx), especially the following lines :
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx" (II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed! (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* * (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xc0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000 (II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1280,8191) (II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1280,1024) (front color buffer - assumption) (==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled (==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1024) (II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7163 (**) Option "dpms" (**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
but i don't know what to try now.
the complete X11 logs can be found at http://www.sp1r1t.de/div/ati_linux/xf86log.txt
any suggestions? thanx in advance,
Tim
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