Installing ATI Drivers in MEPIS

nuka_t · 07-23-2004, 04:32 AM

i dont know if i should have asked this in the newbie section, but anyway...

i cant get my 9600xt to work in linux. ive seen a bunch of different guides and each one was different. and i dont know which to use. has anyone gotten ATI drivers on their 9600xt working in debian, specificcally MEPIS? if so, can you post linkage to the guide you used and let me add you to my MSN just in case something comes up in the midle of the install and i need help before i mess something up. many many thanks.

macondo · 07-23-2004, 05:01 PM

Try the mepis forum, they are very helpful, email the developer/owner, he's a stand-up guy. He'll get back to you in a jiffy.

nuka_t · 07-23-2004, 05:08 PM

thats what i looked at, tehre where three different threads with three different answers. i must admit though, the MEPIS forum pwnz, i was just hoping since there are more users here, i can get advice from someone thats done it first hand.

nuka_t · 07-25-2004, 10:00 AM

so noone here has gotten ati drivers working in sid?

macondo · 07-25-2004, 11:14 AM

what does google say?

nuka_t · 07-25-2004, 12:23 PM

google says too many things and i dont know which to chose.

zero79 · 07-25-2004, 10:32 PM

looks like this project aims to create Debian packages of the ATI proprietary driver.

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.sta...installer.html

nuka_t · 07-26-2004, 07:31 AM

i tried that before zero.

it was too complicated for me

ill post back here once i get back on my MEPIS box and i hope you guys can help me.

zero79 · 07-26-2004, 05:52 PM

i'm not one to say rtfm (read the ------- manual), but that site has a very direct proceedure for installation. please, take a sunday afternoon, print out the page, and follow thru the steps carefully.

nuka_t · 07-27-2004, 01:16 AM

im dedicating an entire week to it :P

i was just wondering if i could pull a "apt-get install ATIDrivers" like you can with gentoo.

hmmmm............

maybe i should dedicate a week to installing gentoo.

ahhh. im so confused.

nuka_t · 08-17-2004, 03:56 PM

ok, im about to attempt an install. however, i done know which one to download

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.sta...aller.html#bin

i have kernel 2.6.5 and xfree 4.3

thanks.

nuka_t · 08-17-2004, 04:01 PM

also, i dont have a 2.6.5-x config file in my /boot/ folder. mine is only called 2.6.5. i did cp /boot/config-2.6.5 .config for the first line, but what do i put in where it says flavour in the make line?

Code:

cp /boot/config-2.x.y-flavour .config
make-kpkg --append-to-version "-flavour" --revision 2.x.y-z --config old configure

nuka_t · 08-17-2004, 04:06 PM

ok, figured out the first problem. stupid mistake.

still dont know what to do about the flavour thing ^

nuka_t · 08-17-2004, 04:42 PM

i found a different guide. this is what i was talking about when i said there was more than one guide and each one is completly different

http://www.desktop-linux.net/ati.htm