Hi!,
Apparently, KDE/X is back to normal by chosing the right setting of mouse under command "mcc" , althoght I had many attemps of instalation of binary driver from ATI and the only driver working is STILL Vesa.
Firstly I typed in console 'uname -a' and note the kernel version number and write this down!
2.go back into the mandrake GUI and go to Control Center, Software, Add RPM software.
3. search ALPHABETICALLY for 'kernel-source' and find the matching version number in first step . Select that version and install it.
4. after installing, go back to KONSOLE to the ATI driver file and type 'rpm -i --force <file name>.rpm'
5. it did its thing and saw a bunch of text that made no sense.
6.typed 'fglrxconfig' in the KONSOLE and went through the text based set up.
Here's screen-shot of it as following:
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root@localhost tmp]# rpm -i --force fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm
*** Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
*** WARNING ***
Tailored kernel module for fglrx not present in your system.
You must go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir
and execute './make.sh' to build a fully customed kernel module.
Afterwards go to /lib/modules/fglrx and run './make_install.sh'
in order to install the module into your kernel's module repository.
(see readme.txt for more details.)
As of now you can still run your XServer in 2D, but hardware acclerated
OpenGL will not work and 2D graphics will lack performance.
failed.
*** Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
ATI module generator V 2.0
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probing for VMA API version...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
skipping patch for 'drmP.h', not needed
skipping patch for 'drm_os_linux.h', not needed
doing script based build for kernel 2.4.x and similar
compiling 'agpgart_be.c'...
compiling 'agp3.c'...
compiling 'i7505-agp.c'...
compiling 'nvidia-agp.c'...
compiling 'firegl_public.c'...
linking of fglrx kernel module...
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
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- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY
See
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o failed
modprobe: insmod fglrx failed
failed.
Installed: qt3 (gcc 3.2) based control panel application
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ATI display drivers successfully installed
please run 'fglrxconfig' now
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[root@localhost tmp]#
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By the way Could you give your installation process of ATI Radeon 9200SE step by step ? as I 'm not familiar with those linux command .
Expecting your Prompt reply ASAP!
Best Regards!
Tom
9/10/2003...............21:00
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