Hi all! Nice to post here again.

Unfortunately, with my new RR4 linux system, my video card does not work properly with the drivers included with RR4. So I decided to install the official ATI proprietary drivers from their website using the installer, and also did "emerge ati-drivers" and "emerge ati-drivers-extra" or something to that effect, and I think I now have two conflicting versions of the kernel module installed on my system, probably not to mention the original driver that came with the distro.

I'm running a 2.6.14-archck4-nosmp kernel on RR4 right now.

Not to mention, the agpgart module cannot be loaded on my RR4 install. Is it not included with RR4 by default? And how do I get it to be installed? Anyway, here's some logs:

Also, I get the following errors when I try to use 3d accel:

(from my Xorg.0.log file)

(from my lspci)

(from my dmesg)

(when running make.sh script within /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod)

If there's additional info that you need I'll provide it ASAP.

Can anyone determine the solution here?

Thanks a million in advance!

Tom

UPDATE: I'm now using a different Gentoo kernel (2.6.14-gentoo-r2) but sound and several other modules and components of my Linux aren't loading right yet.

However, I have almost completely gotten the DRM Fglrx kernel module for this kernel built. I have this error when running make_install.sh as root user:

Is there a certain way to get this module (fglrx) to load when I modprobe it?

http://www.cosmicpothole.com/Linux/ati.php

I have an install guide there. I just found out myself it is much much smart to use the new 8.19.10 drivers on the 2.6.14 kernel. That could be because I had 2.6.13 and upgraded to 2.6.14 without re-updating the drivers... but either way... probably smart.

I would also note, you shouldn't be make or make installing anything at all.

You need one shell script and one driver module(fglrx) in rpm. You will have to have something like yast, yum, uprimi, smart, alien or something else for use with rpms, and you ./ati... and then that is it.

You should be able to verify other things based on commands, but make sure you saved your kernel source when you upgraded, don't just upgrade and delete.

Look, man. First I'm not using a RPM-based distribution such as Suse. Didn't you see that I'm using RR4 Linux, based off Gentoo? It uses Portage which compiles completely from source, no binaries needed.

Secondly, you must use "make_install.sh" with the fglrx kernel module in order for the kernel to be able to load fglrx properly. This I do know.

Third, I kept my original kernel (2.6.14-archck4-nosmp) on my system as well as in my Grub bootloader.

I will check your links that you posted accordingly, and see if it can help me out. Thanks though for the advice.

Tom

I know you are not using an rpm based distro, which is why I told you to get an rpm system installed, like Alien, yum, smart or something else. ATI provides the files as RPMs, so rather than stripping files out of rpms, why not use them the way they are intended?

You do not use make install. you use either "./ati-driver-installer-8.19.10-i386.run" or "sh ati-driver-installer-8.19.10-i386.run" that's it, which is on the drivers.

For fglrx, it is different becauseit comes from ATI as an rpm, and needs to be installed that way(according to their official help. This means whether or not your distro can handle it by default, that is how they distribute it, and they prefer you to use that and don't officially support any other method for fglrx install).
I personally have nothing against you doing it another method, but I would not be surprised to see it not working. Because you are either stripping files out of the rpm, or getting the fglrx from another source, not the official ATI source.

You're quite wrong here. RPMs should not be needed for any reason whatsoever for my system (RR4). From experience, to get the fglrx and 3d accel working, I should not even need to bother with RPMs.

Is it even possible to install a package using any packaging system such as RPM under Gentoo anyway? Could I "emerge rpm" or use a similar command?

I'm not sure you know exactly what you're talking about here.

Tom

I am not saying I know shit. I am telling you what the ATI OFFICIAL WEBSITE says, and what ATI reps tell you if you call. They support one rpm(well a set of 4 rpms for xfree and xorg), and one shell script.

So whereever you are getting your other stuff, it isn't official according to them. Which means if you want to use official ATI driviers, you aren't.

They could be the official Gentoo packaged ATI drivers, or something else. But They are not official according to the people who made them. Tell me I am picking on wording and I agree, but you mentioned earlier wanting to use the official ATI sources, which according to logic would be the ones from www.ATI.com, where they make the hardware, and software, and supply it...officially.

I know you can put rpm managers on gentoo, as I have a friend that did, as for how, can't tell you, I went for a more user friendly distro myself, and that was my choice because I know I don't want to mess with command line when I shouldn't have to. As for how to run them, couldn't tell ya. My guess is though there is a command like in debian which will covert from rpm to a .deb(or in your case rpm to...whatever gentoo uses, unless it is flat shell scrip only).

So no, I do not claim to be a knowledgable gentoo user, or to be someone to tell you how to run ATI on it, but I can tell you, the way you are going is not official(and that isn't my opinion, that is ATI's opinion.)

Forget it. I'm using Gentoo Forums right now instead. Thanks anyway.

Tom