I had been trying to get the drivers from ATI working for several months now. Recently I decided to give it another try. I did a fresh install of Debian Etch, only a base system. I am using the amd64 arch, but everything should work for the other archs as well. I did an apt-get install gnome xorg. That is all I had before I began following several guides until I got it working with the below steps. Also I did all this as root so you may need to install fakeroot or something along those lines.

First grab some dependencies

Then I downloaded the drivers from: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html(Select either Linux_x86 or Linux_x86_64, then Integrated/Motherboard, then Radeon Xpress 200)

After that make sure the driver is executable and then have it build the .debs:

Then install the debs:

Then add this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf at the end:

Then compile the driver:

Then finally have the driver setup the rest of your xorg.conf file automatically:

Then reboot and everything should be all set.
I'm a tad new at this so I will try to answer any questions and I hope this helps.

Normally, I would recommend that people use the ATI drivers from Debian non-free rather than those from the ATI website. OTOH, you did get a newer version, and if it works, that's a good thing.

I mostly did this because I am trying to get XGL up and going. no luck so far, just a gray screen and 'busy' cursor

I assume you've studied this

http://stepien.com.pl/2006/08/02/xgl...d-and-xorg-70/

not that one exactly but its basically what I did, still no go. i think it is just the card wont support it

I've got AIGLX running with the 'radeon' driver. It works fine, except for pixel shading, which means no water effect. Transparent cube also gives me a huge hit on fps.

with the 200M on etch? how?

I've got the ATI Mobility Radeon 320M, on etch. I'm using the xorg-video-ati(or something along those lines) package, and then just change the driver to 'radeon' in your xorg.conf.

does anybody knows how to install xgl using nvidia gforce 5500, i had to install my os 4 times playing with the kernel for my card and still can't use xgl

please reply directly to me if posible

what do you mean change the driver? to what?

xorg's driver will definitely NOT do what you want. According to this page: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Vide...port_Under_XGL ... your card may not support xgl.

I'm sorry, I was completely mistaken, I've got the Mobility Radeon 320M, sorry for the confusion. I'm really sorry to have led you on like that, but it was a complete accident, I'll edit my posts above to reflect that.

hey guys don't fight anymore, install ubuntu, i just installed 2 days ego and works cool, wowww i forgot to say that i was able to install beryl on debian etch x86_64 with my nvidia gforce 5500 just in case some one need help, jeje. a lot of googling.

Hello android6011,

Your howto is working fine also on "lenny" kernelversion 2.6.18-4-amd64 and Radeon X1900GT with Ati-driver 8.35.5-x86.x86_64

Just don´t use:Many thanks
Juergen