Mandrake Linux 10 and radeon WITH 3d accelaration=solved!

I made it @ last! Here is how:

First of all u need to recompile your kernel. Do the following:
su
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make clean
make xconfig

In xconfig goto character devices and select only radeon under dri support.Under the agp chipset select your motherboards chipset (check your motherboards manual 2 b sure). When done save and exit.

make (this step takes a lot of time)
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install

edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and add this line

/sbin/modprobe fglrx
( Don't really know if it matters but i added this line in the beginning of the file)
reboot
open up a terminal and
init 3
give root username and password
Now cd to wherever u have downloaded your ATI drivers (mine is fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm )
rpm -ivh --force fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm (or whatever your drivers r)
wait till everything is finished. Then run fglrxconfig to set up your card but make sure that u say yes (and NOT the default no) when it asks u about agp gart module.

Reboot and voila!

PS 2 b sure that your drivers work WITH 3d accelaration just open up a terminal and run command fglrxinfo. Your output shou

What kernel are you using? Also, is the 3D accelleration stable? I can get the 3D accelleration going well enough, but after a few minutes of intense OpenGL, the system *always* crashes.

I am using 2.6.3-4mdk kernel which comes with the community download of the mandrake 10.0. As for stability i'll download ut2004 demo and give it a try 2 test 3d accelaration and stability.

Braveheart1980, I notice your compiling steps you listed as:

make (this step takes a lot of time)
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install

I thought kernel 2.6.x only needed:

make
make modules_install

That's the impression I got from the README under the 2.6 sources. Am I wrong about that?

Haven't read the readme (i never do!) . That way worked 100% for me and that's the reason i post it. I haven't tried your steps. But since i read (now!) the readme i think that it'll work 2. Maybe somebody else could tell us .

Anti_trend i have tried playing ut2004 demo for over 1 hour without a crash.

Congratulations Braveheart1980 !

Now you are going with Mandrake 10 - you just need to change your (profile) distribution to 10.

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In case anyone has nforce2-chipset the above will probably not work.
Instead you should follow the link below.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...298#post859298

I thank u C++ Boar! Couldn't have done it without u!I'll change my profile in a sec!(He,he,he!)

Braveheart: fair enough, I'd read somewhere you don't do it like with 2.4 but if it works for you, then it works. The new method didn't work out so well for me anyway so I'm using what you're using now.

The good old classical saying : If it works don't fix it!!!

already tried winex with it?

Nope but i'll try it with some games and post results!

Hello.
I'm quite new to linux, got mandrake 10.0 community and got lot of problems trying to make my radeon 9600 work
Thanks a lot for the infos !

Hope we can help u Napalm!Fell free to ask anything!

I never could get my 3D accelleration working 100% with *any* distro with my PowerColor Radeon 9500np. It always has about 10% more FPS than Windows, and then crashes after 3-15 minutes without fail. 2D Accelleration (DRI and XVID) work perfectly, but OpenGL.... I'm not sure if it's my video card, my Abit KV7, or just the stupid ATI drivers.

No mean to insult u but i think it's both!

PS Have u tried my method and still can't get it 2 work right?