hugoX79

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i've been searching all through the forum, but still haven't quite figured out how to get the 3d acceleration to work on slackware 9.0. I've followed one of the link on the site and downloaded the rpm as it stats its for xfree 4.3.0, but still show this -

failed dependencies:/fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6.i586.rpm: No such file or directory
/bin/sh is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
/bin/sh is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
/bin/sh is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
/bin/sh is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libc.so.6 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libdl.so.2 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libICE.so.6 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libm.so.6 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libpthread.so.0 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libSM.so.6 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libX11.so.6 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libXaw.so.7 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libXext.so.6 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libXmu.so.6 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libXpm.so.4 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libXt.so.6 is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
/bin/bash is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6

Any simple solution to to get the full potential of my graphics card in linux?
Any link or advice to any up to date information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

This is the message i get when i run Check.sh

Checking which OS you're running...
uname reports 'Linux' version '2.4.20', architecture 'i686'.
Object format is 'ELF'.
libc version is '6.3'.

XFree86 Version 4.3.0 is installed.

No package available for glibc 2.3. Try fglrx-glibc22-X43.tgz

biledaemon

I currently use xfree's radeon module to get DRI enabled on my Radeon 9000 Pro. I haven't experimented with fglrx module. Try using xfree's radeon module first and get back to me if u get hardware acceleration.

DaOne

Don't use the rpm package to install. Instead, do
rpm2tgz packagename.rpm.
This will convert it to a .tgz file. Unpack the contents with
tar xzvf packagename.tgz.
It will create 3 directories.../usr, /lib, /opt. Copy the files from these directories into the corresponding directories on your drive.
Then cd to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod and do a ./make.sh.
Then cd to /lib/modules/fglrx and do a ./make_install.sh.
Hopefully it will install error free. Then just load agpgart and fglrx...modprobe agpgart, modprobe fglrx. Then run fglrxconfig...then startx.

hugoX79

I've gotten up to the part where you type in " ./make.sh" but i get the error -
ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
build_date =Mon Apr 7 21:23:51 EDT 2003
uname -a =Linux KZX 2.4.20 #2 Mon Mar 17 22:02:15 PST 2003 i686 unknown
uname -s =Linux
uname -m =i686
uname -r =2.4.20
uname -v =#2 Mon Mar 17 22:02:15 PST 2003
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),1$
.
drwxr-xr-x 124 root root 8192 Feb 25 16:28 /usr/include
.
total 26880
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39923 Mar 18 11:28 fglrx_panel_sources.tgz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17343 Mar 18 11:28 fglrx_sample_source.tgz
drwxr-xr-x 14 573 573 4096 Nov 28 18:53 linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27421046 Apr 7 21:13 linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 12 15:23 rpm
.
kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete
file: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h

I've uncompressed linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 source file from the CD to /usr/src/linux - not sure if this was whats needed

So i'm suck up to that part
Sorry to act newbish, but what do you mean Then just load agpgart and fglrx...modprobe agpgart, modprobe fglrx. Then run fglrxconfig...then startx.

Thanks in Advance for taking the time - I'm not even trying to play games on Linux yet, but its nice to know i have the options

hugoX79

P.S. when the linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 was uncompressed using " tar -xvjf" and it made a directory called linux-2.4.20 but there was no linux folder in /usr/src i just renamed the linux-2.4.20 to linux hoping that it would work...

DaOne

Your best bet is to download the Slackware packaged kernel source from here...
http://www.slackware.at/data/slackwa...0-noarch-5.tgz
Then just do installpkg kernel-source-2.4.20-noarch-5.tgz.
This will install the source for you and create a symlink (/usr/src/linux). Then try to install the drivers again.
One last thing...your kernel needs to be compiled for a processor of i586 or higher.

hugoX79

You ARE GOD Worked like a charm, i'm getting dual monitor working and everything looks awesome. I really appreciate your help. Now what is this about compiling my Kernal for i686? any link you can point me towards to get me started? Now, i can do "almost" everything i did on XP on Linux...thanks again. Not bad for my first real atempt on linux distro..hope to try others out as well, but from what i hear slack is almost as good as it gets.

_DG_

where can i found fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6.i586.rpm
on ati.com they justt have driver for xfree 4.1.0 and 4.2.0

hugoX79

http://www.schneider-digital.de/html...nload_ati.html

Doesn't seem to be the official release yet, but works well

DaOne

If it works, I wouldn't worry about it. But, it used to be that the drivers were for i586 or higher and they wouldn't install unless your kernel was set as such. It's just a matter of running make menuconfig, then setting the proper processor support...ie, Pentium 2, 3, 4, AMD Athlon, etc., then compiling.

biledaemon

Would it possible if someone can send me the fglrx.rpm file from www.schneider-digital.de to my ftp?

I cant enter it for some odd reason (I think it's my ISP DNS' servers)

Sorry...ftp info edited.

yeti@holmes:~ ping www.schneider-digital.de
ping: unknown host www.schneider-digital.de

Greatly appreciated. Thank u

DaOne

Done...

biledaemon

Thanks for the file...but I get this:

yeti@holmes:~ rpm2tgz fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6.i586.rpm
... rpm2cpio failed. (maybe fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6.i586.rpm is not an RPM?)

Err..is it somehow corrupted or can u send me the .tgz instead? :-)

DaOne

I sent the .zip file exactly as I downloaded it. glx1_linux_X4.3.zip.

biledaemon

Thank u.. There is something wrong with the zip file. Oh well.. Hmm.. i wonder if there are any other sites that host this file.

yeti@holmes:~ unzip glx1_linux_X4.3.zip
Archive: glx1_linux_X4.3.zip
error [glx1_linux_X4.3.zip]: missing 48 bytes in zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
error [glx1_linux_X4.3.zip]: attempt to seek before beginning of zipfile
(please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)
(attempting to re-compensate)
inflating: XFree 4.3.0-2.9.6/Check.sh
inflating: XFree 4.3.0-2.9.6/fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6.i586.rpm
error: invalid compressed data to inflate
file #3: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 3847782
(attempting to re-compensate)
inflating: XFree 4.3.0-2.9.6/fileinfo.txt
yeti@holmes:~ ls

Then I tried to rpm2tgz the file but get the same result. Know of any other location? or do u have a copy of it?