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ATI Radeon 9600 drivers question

Hello Everyone,
I was curious if anyone had tried to install the ati drivers as shown in this howto:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon

Did it work? Does this look like a credible walkthrough? The reason I am asking is because I am fairly new at linux, and I dont want to destroy my display configuration and not know how to get it back. Thanks

I am trying this now to work on my FC2 install using a P4 3.2GHz w/ HT and my ATI 9800XT 256.

I'll let you know how that works in about 10 min.

Thanks cariwill, did it work?

It didn't completely work for me.

I managed to get the drivers to install - but no 3D hardware acceleration.

I've put so many hours into trying to get it to work that I'm considering using a different distro until better drivers come out.

To anyone who tried this, here is something else I found about this topic,

http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/linux/radeon.shtml

Has anyone been able to actually get the 3D rendering to work for an ATI card?

Hello Everyone,
To followup, I used the original FAQ that I had posted and the fglrx did not work as the second faq from Stanford stated. Then I replaced my xorg.conf file with the back up and implemented the changes recommended in the second faq. Now I have 3D rendering. Problem solved, I hope you have luck with this too. Cheers

Quote:

Originally posted by RedRaven
Has anyone been able to actually get the 3D rendering to work for an ATI card?

Yes i have.

Successfully installed FC2 on a Centrino-equipped Dell Latitude D600 with an ATI Radeon 9000M. Here's the hell:

1.) The ATI patch everyone is using in those Radeon FAQs seem to only work against the stock 2.6.5-1.358 kernel. I installed every kernel RPM update available, but no luck..just hell.

2.) Build-your-own-kernel is still the best way. I built a kernel from the 2.6.9 vanilla sources and had no need to patch the Radeon driver. Just "#rpm -ivh" the fglrx driver and you're done. Getting in excess of 800FPS with glxgears!

Are you getting 800 FPS or 80 FPS, 800 seems really high. Assuming GLX Gears is the Screensaver, what do you get for ant spotlight. I patched and used the how tos and am getting about 50 FPS right now.

Second, how do I build my own kernel?

Quote:

Originally posted by RedRaven
Are you getting 800 FPS or 80 FPS, 800 seems really high. Assuming GLX Gears is the Screensaver, what do you get for ant spotlight. I patched and used the how tos and am getting about 50 FPS right now.

Second, how do I build my own kernel?

Here's a cut n paste of my glxgears (not the screensaver) output:

Code:

4442 frames in 5.0 seconds = 888.400 FPS

4522 frames in 5.0 seconds = 904.400 FPS

4769 frames in 5.0 seconds = 953.800 FPS

4766 frames in 5.0 seconds = 953.200 FPS

4770 frames in 5.0 seconds = 954.000 FPS

4769 frames in 5.0 seconds = 953.800 FPS

4763 frames in 5.0 seconds = 952.600 FPS

4769 frames in 5.0 seconds = 953.800 FPS

4766 frames in 5.0 seconds = 953.200 FPS

4768 frames in 5.0 seconds = 953.600 FPS

The antspotlight screensaver gives me 48FPS. But since I only have a Radeon 9000M, I think you should be getting a much higher score than 50FPS with your 9600.

As for how to build your own kernel, perhaps someone here can provide you with a good FC2 kernel howto.