3D Acceleration...

alur3n · 07-26-2005, 04:53 PM

Hey, I'm using Debian Sarge 3.1 with Kernel 2.4.27 and I have an ATi Radeon 9600...

I installed the ATi Drivers but 3D acceleration seems to still not work, checking the panel tells me that it's still using the MESA driver... please could somebody here give me a clear and easy guide to setting up 3D acceleration on this setup?

ride153 · 07-26-2005, 06:25 PM

did you do this as root

cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
./make.sh
cd ..
./make_install.sh

fglrxconfig

i would backup the old xorg.conf before doing this

good luck

NetRAVEN5000 · 07-26-2005, 07:19 PM

Are you noticing that things are choppy, or are you just noticing that Mesa is being used? If I'm not mistaken, just because you're using Mesa doesn't necessarily mean you're not using 3D acceleration.

I don't use ATi because the last ATi card I had had HORRIBLE Linux support - even with the ATi drivers - but you might try uninstalling Mesa.

whf · 07-27-2005, 08:15 AM

I am having similar problems with my ati radeon mobility 9000. I installed the drivers and ran fglrxconfig but after that it still told me that I was using the Mesa drivers. When I try running a 3D application it tells me that my 3D acceleration has not been configured. I've definitely installed the drivers correctly since they are rpm packages, so what could be the problem?

ride153 · 07-27-2005, 08:20 AM

if your using kernel 2.6.10 or above then i think you also need this fglrx-kernel-module patch

whf · 07-27-2005, 08:00 PM

Where can I find this patch? Is it specific to a distro? I'm using suse 9.3 by the way. Thanks!

ride153 · 07-28-2005, 08:33 AM

not sure i never used Suse,

i think for fedora its yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r)

mammlouk · 07-28-2005, 09:26 AM

For Suse just visit this ftp site.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/sup...fglrx/8.14.13/

Follow the directions in the readme and you will be set.

alur3n · 07-28-2005, 06:30 PM

I'm on Debian, I ran make.sh and got:

ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
initializing...
kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete
file: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h

Also, my kernel is 2.4.27

whf · 07-28-2005, 10:06 PM

Thanks for the link, I followed the instructions and yeh it worked perfectly! I think the reason why it didn't work before was I didn't have my kernel sources installed? Funny that suse does not install the sources by default.