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ati drivers? - radeon 9100

hey guys, i have a radeon 9100, i would like to get it running properly under linux.

anyone else have this card, if so which drivers did you download from ati's website?

http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html

i know that this card is basically the same as the 8500, but with a new name!

oh yeah my card is the 64mb ddr version.

one more thing, what success levels (ie: performance) are people getting running unreal tournament 2003 in linux (the linux version)

cheers

Don't let it confuse you, Ati offers one driver for all supported cards ...as in one size fits all, I mean there's different revisions and, at the link you posted, you'll get the last official release. They're almost 6 months old and probably wouldn't recognise the product ID of your newer card.
They also don't support XFree-4.3.0.

Anyway, your best bet, if you want the best performance in UT2003, get the glx1 for your XFree version here

Use the search for radeon 9x00, it'll provide some info on how to install them and different issues, as it's been discussed regularly in the last few months.

Quote:

Originally posted by UnTamed
Anyway, your best bet, if you want the best performance in UT2003, get the glx1 for your XFree version

kool :) so lets see if i have got this right? i dont need to download any drivers from the ati site. just get the glx1 drivers you suggested? and ut2003 will be performing better?

cheers

Yeah, that place mirrors Ati's newest drivers, think of it as "controlled leaks" approved by Ati.

Don't expect perf to be on par with M$ drivers just yet, but if you have a big CPU [...UT's graphic engines have always been CPU dependent] you could get decent perf outta them with no crash and very good IQ, just a little slow.

cheers dude, one more question: is there an english version?

i have no i dea which driver suits my card (cant read language)

Kartentyp - i belive this is card type
Betriebs- no idea
-system - i can figure this and the next 2
Version
Filename
Beschreibung - no idea

also this is a lsiting from the card type field: Fire GL X1
Fire GL Z1
Fire GL E1
Fire GL 8800
Fire GL 8700

my card is a radeon 9100 (8500) how does this correspond to fire??

cheers for your help dude! :)

The FireGL chip is now based on the Radeon core so we have a "unified" driver.
You can basically flash a 8500 to a FireGL8800 and I suspect the FireGL X1 and Z1 to be based on the r300 core ...but I haven't really checked.

...all that to say, as I said earlier, "get the glx1 for your XFree version", meaning if you still have Slack 8.1 and haven't upgraded XFree, get GLX1_LINUX_X4.2.zip, or else get either the X4.1 or X4.3 depending on your XFree version, it's that simple.

The only other option for linux is the GL2X series, which support the older FireGL, which were developped by ArtX before Ati bought them.

ok i get the part about downloading the drivers now :)

but no i am confused about the fire stuff, only one confusion: do i have to flash my card?

:D no you don't, that was just to emphasize how close both cards are, and explain why the same driver works on both kinds.

ok kool, i downloaded the driver :glx1_linux_X4.3.zip
unzipped it , ran the file Check.sh and got this:

Code:

bash-2.05b# sh Check.sh

=====================================================================

 ATI Technologies 

=====================================================================

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



bash-2.05b#

continued by truing to install the rpm that was unzipped, and got this :

Code:

bash-2.05b# rpm -Uhv fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12.i586.rpm

error: failed dependencies:

        /bin/sh  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        /bin/sh  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        /bin/sh  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        /bin/sh  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        ld-linux.so.2  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libc.so.6  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libdl.so.2  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libICE.so.6  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libm.so.6  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libpthread.so.0  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libSM.so.6  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libX11.so.6  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libXaw.so.7  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libXext.so.6  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libXmu.so.6  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libXpm.so.4  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libXt.so.6  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        /bin/bash  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

        libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0)  is needed by fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12

oh yeah i am running slack 9, with everything installed, apart from kde and gnome.

any ideas?

cheers dude

I use this procedure.
I also never bothered with the Check.sh and they work just fine for me with glibc-2.3.

Code:

>pkginfo -i | grep glibc

glibc 2.3.2-1

Code:

>fglrxinfo 

display: :0.0  screen: 0

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.

OpenGL renderer string: Radeon 8500 DDR Pentium 4 (SSE2)

OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-2.9.12)

this is probably a really stupid question but when i run sh make.sh, i get:

Code:

kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.4.20/build/include not found or incomplete

file: /lib/modules/2.4.20/build/include/linux/version.h

bash-2.05b#

what is it looking for?

cheers

Make sure you have the kernel-sources installed.
You'll have to get them through a Slack mirror since they weren't on the .iso IIANM.

ok, i get this far:

Code:

bash-2.05b# cd ../

bash-2.05b# ls

build_mod              fglrx.2.4.18-17.8.0.o  fglrx_info.txt  make_install.sh

fglrx.2.4.18-17.7.x.o  fglrx.2.4.20.o        make.2.4.20.log

bash-2.05b# sh make_install.sh

- creating symlink

- recreating module dependency list

- trying a sample load of the kernel module

Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY

  See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules

Module fglrx loaded, with warnings

done.

bash-2.05b# ls

build_mod              fglrx.2.4.18-17.8.0.o  fglrx.o        make.2.4.20.log

fglrx.2.4.18-17.7.x.o  fglrx.2.4.20.o        fglrx_info.txt  make_install.sh

now, i start getting a bit confused from here:

Quote:

then I copy ~/fglrx/usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxconfig, fgl_glxgears and fglrxinfo into /usr/X11R6/bin

Follow the same procedure with the content of ~/fglrx/usr/X11R6/lib, but I backup my existing /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to DRI-libGL.so.1.2 before copying over. The rest in ~/fglrx/usr/X11R6/lib/modules won't overwrite existing files.

where are these?: ~/fglrx/usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxconfig, fgl_glxgears and fglrxinfo

and by follow the same procedure with the content of ~/fglrx/usr/X11R6/lib
starting from where? just the copy procedure??

cheers for your help :)

ok i sussed part of it out; i copied the first lot of files and backed up my libGL.so.1.2 file and copied the files in the lib directory, my only other question is do i have to copy the files in the module directory to the module directory too??

Code:

hen I copy ~/fglrx/usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxconfig, fgl_glxgears and fglrxinfo into /usr/X11R6/bin



Follow the same procedure with the content of ~/fglrx/usr/X11R6/lib, but I backup my existing /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to DRI-libGL.so.1.2 before copying over. The rest in ~/fglrx/usr/X11R6/lib/modules won't overwrite existing files.

yeah almost there!!! :)