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Old 03-22-2004, 10:06 PM   #1
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ati drivers working...kind of


I've got the ati drivers installed and working, but when there is something that uses 3d accel. there is checkers through it. It looks like a checker board... Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks.

BTW it's Mandrake 10 CE
 
Old 03-23-2004, 07:00 AM   #2
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I have the same problem with an amd processor and the 3.7.6 drivers... its a bug in the driver... check out ati's linux driver faq... its documented.. However your game should work perfectly in window mode.
 
Old 03-23-2004, 10:38 AM   #3
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even in windowed mode they still have the same problem... I don't understand why having an AMD CPU will affect the graphics. I thought that the newer video cards used their on board GPU? And I also thought that this issue was supposed to be fixed with 3.7.6? ATI
 
Old 03-23-2004, 10:47 AM   #4
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Originally posted by flakzeus
even in windowed mode they still have the same problem... I don't understand why having an AMD CPU will affect the graphics. I thought that the newer video cards used their on board GPU? And I also thought that this issue was supposed to be fixed with 3.7.6? ATI
I have the issue you speak of on my wifes machine with a radeon 9000, except its only "checkered" in full screen mode.. windowed works fine (who wants to play ut in a window though???)

the wonders of ATI & linux.. some things we may never know... I now only buy nvidia cards for linux.

http://www.nvidia.com

EDIT: I bet this issue doesnt occur with 3.7.0... if anyone happens to have this driver hosted somewhere.. please share.. because ATI doesnt have old drivers available for linux.

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Old 03-23-2004, 10:58 AM   #5
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I am just about to put that card up for sale on ebay and go buy a Geforce FX 5950. Anyone want an ATI 9800 SE 128Mb? Good Price!
 
Old 03-23-2004, 04:21 PM   #6
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Before you put your card on ebay I had the same issue with my Hercules 9800 Se.

It is to do with the pipelines. If I tried to soft mod my card in windoze then it would do the checkerboard.

I then installed linux and had the same issue. Look at this thread there is a way to make it work, change your device ID to that of a 9500 and all works fine.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...ghlight=9800se

See if it helps you.

Now if only I could get my direct rendering working with 2.6.3......

Glen
 
Old 03-27-2004, 06:16 PM   #7
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once you have go the drivers up and running try dropping down to level 3 (init 3) you will need to be root. and type modprobe nvidia_agp once logged on as root. then logout and logback in as your normal user and type kde (if you use kde) or startx (in m10 i think thats starts winWM)
 
  


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