ATI Drivers under Linux
I've been trying to get Half-Life to run on my new computer for the past few days now but with little luck. I've done so in the past with an NVidia card using wine. This time around I have and ATI card, and I've installed the ATI drivers from their website and have got 3D acceleration working. However, the problem is that these drivers apparently only support a 24bit color depth. Whenever I try to start Half-Life under wine it complains about the color-depth (which threads have only shown to alleviate through changing the colors to 16bit, an option that I don't have with these drivers). Does anyone know of a way I can get Half-Life to run (with 3D acceleration) on my ATI 9700pro?
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Same basic problem here. Bump for answers.
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You can change color depth in the X server config file (/etc/X11/XFConfig-4), just put 16 instead of 24.
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The problem with that is if you try to do that then the Xserver won't start with an error message something along the lines of fglrx doesn't support 16 color depth. After looking at the ATI website FAQs, apparently 24 and 8 bit depths are the only ones supported by this driver, so I don't think I'm gonna be able to change it that way.
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Or u can get winex and play with that. Dont want to buy it, just send me an email me at pntbalg@yahoo.com and ill send u a free version of winex 3.3 tgz or rpm. hey the linux community has to stick together. :-)
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Well I tried that, too, actually. I just downloaded Fedora Core 1 recently and when I tried to get winex cvs as an alternative the thing just plain refused to compile. Eventually I found a site that had a fc1 rpm compiled that I downloaded, but unfortunetly winex 3.3 seems to also be giving me this error about colors whenever half-life starts up.
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Known problem with the fglrx driver: it does not support 16-bit rendering, though oddly enought it does support 8-bit via pseudocolor primitives or what ever it's called that feature.
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:( Yep, that's the problem pretty much. Any ideas for a way to work around it or something?
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Nah, I've got a Radeon 9700pro which makes it a R300 card: not supported by DRI. I came across that earlier with no avail. Thanks for your help though.
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No prob. I too have an R300... I hope ATi will have common sense and include 16-bit support in a future relase (even if it's only for completeness sake).
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Hi Buddy ! I posted something right here describing how to make the latest ATI (fglrx) drivers run under X 4.3 http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/forums...r=asc&start=45 Give it a read and lemme know. Cheerz ! Just in case, here's the quote : Quote:
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