I can't seem to enable 3d acceleration either. All I can really say is that it "feels" faster. Take that for what it's worth.

I want to run neverwinter nights, so I need to get the damn graphics accelerator to work. I tried running the .rpm files generated by that ATI setup and still the same result.

Hi,
I have installed fglrx drivers for my HIS Excalibur 9700 card with YAST. Then I executed the following command - as root:

init 3

sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/X11R6/lib64/sax/profile/firegl -i

It installed the driver but without 3D acceleration.
I have now 6450 frames to 9820 frames in 5 sec that is 1290.000 FPS to 1965.000 FPS. It is good but as I said, there is no 3D .

For those of you having trouble have you tried NOT running the sax2 command?

I remember doing that command on previous attempts, but when I successfully ran the ATI installer and fglrxconfig I definetly did not run the sax2 command. I think the sax2 command is just another way to generate an xorg.conf file. So running it after you do fglrxconfig just overwrites your xorg.conf. Right?

Anyway. I will try this on my work laptop and test it.

Ah I got my 9600pro to work with graphics acceleration! After reading the log file output by ATI's auto installer thing, I realized I needed to update the kernel because of a version mismatch. If you update it, along with kernel-source, and gcc you should be good to run the auto installer (sh ati-driver-installer-8.16.20-i386.run). After that go ahead and run fglrxconfig with the correct settings and reboot. When xwindows restarts, it should work okay. You can still modify the config file for the TV crap if you need to (more about that in the first page of this thread).

Have fun

Just tried the new driver on my laptop and it still freezes when 3d (such as glxgears) is attempted so im reverting back to the 'radeon' module which works quite well but puts a lot of load on my cpu.

Its been partially mentioned earlier but either kernel-source or kernel-headers (im not sure if SuSE provide a kernel-headers though) must be installed before trying this driver otherwise you dont get the kernel module at the end (which is required for DRI which in turn is required for 3D). Strangely the installer carries on blissfully ignoring the fact that compilation failed

Hi,

Maybe there is somebody out there who tried to install ATI fglrx driver according to the instructions written in http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/04/akulk_ati93.html.
I did that and it worked well but only if I dont shut down my computer. The results glxgears are like this:
bgorjup@linux:~> glxgears
7169 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1433.800 FPS
12088 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2417.600 FPS
13410 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2682.000 FPS
12934 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2586.800 FPS
13485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2697.000 FPS
13485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2697.000 FPS
13465 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2693.000 FPS

Nice aint it. But after shutting down my comp, the results are 1/6 th of the above.

Then again, I have to integrate the driver :

init 3
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/X11R6/lib64/sax/profile/firegl -i

After that, everything is O.K. again, till I shut down .

Well, any solution ???

I am seeking some dumded down instruction on how to run the fglrxconfig.

I don't know what any of the requests mean! I try my best guess, things appear to go well, but 3d games still appear as slideshows.

Help please.

Robert

cool i will have to try this when i get home

I have a Laptop with a ATI Radeon Express 200M 128mb. Will it work with that?

What are the correct settings?

the driver installed with no problems, but it runs SO SLOWLY, 282 FPS. Shouldn't I be seeing something like 1000?

So one question I have is "what settings/options should I pick in fglrxconfig"? I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 wide-screen laptop.

Two, I find this odd, when I do a fglrxinfo I get this:
Shouldn't I see 'ATI' where www.mesa3d.org sits?

Thanks!

I too followed all the instructions to the letter, but coud not get direct rendering to work:

fglrxinfo:
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)

I also noticed this DMESG output:
mtrr: 0xe8000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xe8000000,0x1000000
[fglrx:firegl_addmap] *ERROR* mtrr allocation failed (-22)

So, after trying many things, I found that hand rolling the kernel without CONFIG_DRM sorted everything out. No mttr errors, and fglrxinfo output:

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X300 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.5272 (X4.3.0-8.16.20)

and glxinfo output:
direct rendering: Yes

L

how did u hand roll the kernel?

With all respect, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of howtos on recompiling your kernel - on LQ and elsewhere. When you find a howto you like, after the "make cloneconfig" stage, type make menuconfig, and look under Device Drivers->Character Devices and switch of Direct Rendering Manager.
Then follow the rest of the howto.

L

I seem to have gotten a reply to when I asked a question on the ATI driver thingy.

I did figure it all out, including why I was still seeing 'Mesa' instead of ATI when I did a fglrxinfo. In short, the *.run script from ATI is not all that hot.

My solution is at:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...47#post1843747