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On Friday 20 February 2004 00:48, Oliver Baum wrote:
On 19.02.2004 20:04, Nimer wrote:
Is here anybody that tried this drivers? And was successfull with
them?
My experience was similar, but I managed to get my Radeon9600pro running
with the original ATI drivers now.
I think, one big drawback of the SuSE versions of this drivers is, that
it doesn't supply the libGL.so.
This helped me:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/122514
http://www.gmpf.de/
Notice that the following will *not* work if You have an nForce(2), VIA
KT400/600 or SiS 648 chipset. You should read carefully what is written
on http://www.gmpf.de/ in that case.
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/profile/firegl
- add the line
Load "dri"
to the "Module" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config
- run fglrxconfig and answer the quesions; if in doubt, accept the
default; specify you want to use the *external* agpgart module! (this is
important)
- load the agpgart module by adding the line
/sbin/insmod agpgart
to /etc/init.d/boot.local
- mv /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.generated
- copy relevant lines [1] from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.generated to
/etc/X11/XF86Config
- do not run sax2 any more!
- restart or do
init 3; rmmod fglrx; insmod agpgart; init 5
- check if glxinfo shows "direct rendering: Yes"
- post the result of
glxinfo | grep "glx ve*"
and
glxinfo | grep fbconfig
to me or on this list or to satisfy my curiosity ;-)
[1] relevant lines depend on the answers you have given in fglrxconfig,
in my configuration:
# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
# === misc DRI settings ===
Option "mtrr" "off" # disable DRI mtrr mapper,
driver has its own code for mtrr # === FSAA Management ===
Option "FSAAEnable" "no"
Option "FSAAScale" "1"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
# === Misc Options ===
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" ## THIS IS IMPORTANT !!!
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
in section "Device"
That's what worked for me (Radeon 9600pro, Asus P4P800 w/ Intel 82865PE
chipset).
HTH!
Regards,
Oliver
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/readme0370.txt
This section of the of the "readme0370.txt" is focused on RH 8, but the caveat
is essentially true IMHO:
"Remove the existing libGL installation and then install the new libGL
with the ATI driver installation.
For example:
rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.2.0-72
rpm -Uhv .rpm
NOTES:
(1) Ensure that no OpenGL program is running during installation
(2) You need the "--nodeps" option because some screen savers, qt-3,
and some parts of XFree86 might depend on the libGL presence.
Installing the new libgl from the ATI package will restore the
required libGL presence."
- From what I have been able to gather, after battling with this for some time,
is that the Mesa packages that provide "libGL.so" have a history of creating
problems - namely that most programs will look to "libGL.so" to initialize
3D. Unfortunately if the drivers (which can be kludgy to say the least)
don't establish a link in a proper way all programs will be naturally
defaulted to MesaGLX - and this is completely software driven - hence the
lack of true 3D HW accel. This is why I was curious about the output to:
rpm -qa | grep mesa.
my results are as follows:
mesaglut-5.0.1-61
mesaglut-devel-5.0.1-61
mesa-5.0.1-61
However, it has been recommended to remove Mesa (specifically versions <=
4.x), Mesa 5.0 shouldn't be a problem - but I have noticed that it can still
interfere.
What worked for me is:
Exit the gui, shift over to tty1, log in as root, then issue "init 3" or
"telinit 3"
rpm -Uhv fglrx-3.7.0-0.i586.rpm --replacepkgs
rm /lib/modules/2.4.21-166-athlon/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o
rpm -Uhv km_fglrx-3.7.0-0.i586.rpm --replacepkgs
NOTE: if you look at /usr/src/kernel-modules/fglrx and see that the old
"fglrx.o" is still there try moving into that dir and then issuing "make -f
Makefile.module clean", this will remove the old kernal driver modules.
Now you want to go to /usr/src/kernel-modules/fglrx and issue
(omit quotes)
"make -f Makefile.module"
"make -f Makefile.module install"
then while still in init 3 issue
"sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/profile/firegl"
Then open an edit (I use pico)
pico /etc/X11/XF86Config
add
Load "dri"
to Section "Module"
Now, one can use fglrxconfig but that will point X to XF86Config-4 file rather
than the XF89Config that is used presently - IMHO this adds unfavorably to
the "kludge" factor.
Then run
ldconfig
SuSEconfig
You may reboot or do a startx/startx kdm
I prefer to reboot simply because I've found that the card will initialize
better and more cleanly.
HTH, Curtis.
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