ATI fglrx installed, but no 3d??

Biggen · 04-11-2007, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Well, ok it's not the default, but I meant the stable Slackware 2.6.x kernel (as opposed to testing). You can find it in 'extra/linux-2.6.17.13' of the slackware install CD2/DVD. That would be generic (the kernel itself), modules, headers, and source. You may need to edit the config and recompile your own ... depends on what you're running.

What if I just downloaded the source from the extra directory and then compiled my own from that source using my .config? It would still be using that kernel Wouldn't that work as well?

What I don't understand is the header files. Are they hard to make? Is that why there is not header files for each 2.6.x kernel? Seems like they are only certain kernel headers available.

I'll download that source, compile, and try it out like that. Maybe it will work, who knows...

Biggen · 04-11-2007, 08:19 PM

IT WORKS!!!!

Good call on using the older 2.6.17 kernel. That did it. I guess the newer 2.6.20.6 kernel is not yet supported by the new drivers.

Man, thank you so much for the help. I'm so excited I have 3D now!

:-)

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-11-2007, 08:24 PM

Great, glad to hear that.

Well, send an e-mail to those lazy bums

at ATI and tell 'em to hurry up and fix the driver to support newer kernels and xorg versions.

chefkoch · 04-11-2007, 10:10 PM

The driver includes a patch that makes it work with 2.6.20
to use it do:

sh ati-driver-installer-3.35.5-x86.x86_64.run --extract ati
cd ati
cat packages/Fedora/ati-drivers-2.6.20.patch | patch -p0
sh ati-installer.sh bla --install

and follow the installer as usual. Note even though the patch is in the defore directory it'S not fedora specific