XFree86 4.3 ATI Drivers

Hey, i just picked up a smokin' new ATI radeon 9500 pro gfix card (yeah, for doom 3 ) and now I'm need for the right drivers. I mean come on, its just NOT LEGAL to have linux and not be able to play tux racer! So, i've checked high and low for ati drivers that support xfree86 4.3.0 (the version that ships with rh9) to no avail.

Does anybody out there have any ideas as to where i can get these drivers or do i just have to WAIT...?

try
http://gatos.sf.net

thanks for the link, interesting, but still only good up to 4.2...thanks anyways

I just double checked it is also good for 4.3 - look into the download area there you will see

newbism confirmed...thanks a TON

ppfttt....not even those drivers support my card i guess...i'll just haveta wait.

i tested it with chromium and tux racer, and it still runs terribly choppy...

any more help? anyone?

There are also closed source driveres directly from ati, but the drivers at gatos should work - did you check with glxinfo?
Wich modules did you load in your config?

There you go,
http://www.schneider-digital.de/down...linux_X4.3.zip

...fresh outta the oven, released yesterday, version 2.9.08.

edit--just hadta reboot--edit

HOWEVER, i still have a problem. They simply aren't working. I installed the RPM without a hitch, restarted X and Xserver and tested it with chromium...blargh, it's still choppy.

btw, i used the drivers from the german site

IRT ritzlmayr:
i know, i tried the ati drivers first, but they only support up to XFree 4.2.x.

when i run glrxinfo the only useful piece of info i got was

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4

now, in the readme that came attached to the download i got from schneider-digital says that should look like

OpenGL vendor string: ATI OpenGL renderer string: FireGL 8700/8800 OpenGL version string: 1.2.1234 (1.2.3)

now what?

>fglrxinfo 
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon 8500 DDR Pentium 4 (SSE2)
OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-2.9.8)

i think you will have to edit your XF86Config file to tell X to use the new driver. i can't give you any more specific information myself, but maybe someone else can. take a close look through the driver documntation.

alex

i tried, and everything was just rejected when i restarted the X server, it said it wouldnt accept the settings and tried with a fresh config every time.

I guess its still back to the drivers, (i.e. i cant enable agp in the XF86Config file if my drivers dont support it)

Here is some data from my config (how it should look like) wich works.

when you execute gxlinfo one line is important wich is
direct rendering: Yes (if this is no - something is wrong)
if it is Yes you are fine (chromium etc. should run fine)

XF86Config:
the following modules are loaded on my machine where HW-accel. works. (dri and glx are the most important ones for HW-accel.) If you also want native OpenGL support also include GLcore.

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

After your X-Server is started you should also check the loaded Kernel modules. Important here is radeon and agpgart. On my machine radeon is used 20 times and agpgart is used 3 times. You can check that with lsmod (usually those modules are somewhere near the top of the list).

If something is different on your machine post exactly what the differences are - otherwise it is hard to help.

good luck

You need to recompile your kernel and REMOVE radeon and DRI support. I wrote a little howto that I am told works with a good few radeon cards. Maybe it will be of help?
http://www23.brinkster.com/nukes031/radeon.html

thanks, i'll check that out