Installing ATI drivers via cmd line
Can someone tell me how I would go about installing the ATI drivers for my Radeon 9800 Pro using the command line in Mandrake 9.2? I've already downloaded the drivers and will be installing them from a CD.
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why don't u look at
INSTALLATION file (after untar/unzip the file u downloaded) you can post it here if you need help or it might be just self extracting file. what's the file name you downloaded. |
The filename is:
fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.8.i586 I'm trying to install these drivers because I'm unable to access the linux GUI without them. I'm guessing that since the file extension is i586, it's a self-extracting file? I've only installed one file via the command line so far and that was a .rpm file (the kernel, which someone walked me through), and am unsure of how to go about installing a file with this new extension. |
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/l...7&submit=GO%21
i went there, all the files have .rpm at the end r u sure u downloaded the right one y don't u download it again. rpm -Uvh your_downloaded_file |
My bad, it turns out that the file I had did have an extension of .rpm (was looking at it in WinXP where I don't have file extensions visible).
When I try to install the file, I get the following error: file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.8 conflicts with (this next part is off the screen for some odd reason) from package libxfree86-4.3-23mdk This is rather strange considering that I downloaded the driver that matches my version of XFree86 (v. 4.3-23mdk). Anyone have any ideas as to why there's a conflict if the drivers that I'm downloading are suppose to work (according to ATI) with my version of XFree86? I'm so confused. Maybe I should try downloading and installing older drivers? I really don't want to have to do that if at all possible. :/ Also, in your response to my last post, you used the command -uvh. Could you explain to me what this means? I had to use -ivh to get the file to install (-uvh wasn't recognized). |
it's -Uvh
U for upgrade v for verbose h for hash marks you can always do 'man any_command' in this case, 'man rpm' yeah rpms always conflict. so i don't use rpms anymore.. just always compile from source. you can just do --force that's what i used to do when i used rpm. didn't have much problem doing so. if you are concerned, just get source version whenever possible |
I tried using the following command:
rpm -Uvh --force fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.8.i586.rpm and the installation seemed to go fine, but then I got the following errors: (WW) Radeon: No matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (EE) No devices detected Fatal server error: no screens found XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. I'm at a loss. :/ |
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/readme0328.txt
did u read this? always read install doc if provided.. well, sorry it's taking you so long.. but it will be better next time :p ask again if you don't understand the doc |
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next edit the XF86Config-4 file (in the /etc/X11/ directory) use vi, scroll down and your will find the "BusID PCI:#:#:#" replace it (just the numbers after pci) with the bus id you got from lspci... my bus id was something like "PCI:00:01.1" replcae it and then you should be able to run startx thanks:trey |
Thanks to everyone who responded, I finally got the GUI running! :)
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