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Old 05-23-2006, 10:55 PM   #1
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ATI Driver Help


I recently made the move from Winblows to Slackware linux. I have an ATI card and am having trouble configuring the drivers properly using the "aticonfig" utility as designated once the drivers are installed. I have searched for days and my brain is fried.

Card: Radeon x800 XT
Kernel: 2.6.13
Distro: Slackware 10.2
Error: Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to change!"

After I receive the error (this happens while trying to load UT2004) it just sits there and I have to do ctrl+c to cancel the process to continue working in the terminal. Asking around I think I have narrowed the problem down to the aticonfig not being configured properly, but there is a better than even chance I am wrong. Thanks for any help in advance, and sorry if this is a repost, so much work, so little sleep. =(

-Kerry
 
Old 05-24-2006, 03:57 PM   #2
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Do you have the DRI extensions installed for X? Did you uncomment the "Load" "DRI" line from the "Modules" section of your X config file?
 
Old 05-24-2006, 05:22 PM   #3
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verdeboy2k,

I looked in the Modules section of "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and there was no option for a DRI module. Here is what I have listed under modules:
Load "dbe" #Double buffer extension
#This loads misc. extensions module, disables initialisation of the XFree86-DGA #extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" #don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
#This loads font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
#Load "speedo"
#This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
EndSection

Is it possible for me to just write "Load" "DRI" into the section? Or does it seem like I need something else installed? Whenever I run "glxgears" I get fps rates at around 400-600, which is stupidly low. Thanks for you help!

Something I forgot to mention in my last post is my window manager is xfce 4.2.2.
 
Old 05-24-2006, 06:00 PM   #4
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Look in my DRI post in my sig. Has an extensive ATI section.
 
Old 05-25-2006, 12:35 AM   #5
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cwwilson721,

Thanks for sending me there. I got started on the process, but ran into a problem when I switched into the /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod directory. I did a sh make.sh and immediately after initializing it gave me this error:
kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include do not match current kernel.
they are versioned as "2.4.31"
instead of "2.6.13".
you might need to adjust your symlinks:
- /usr/include
- /usr/src/linux
bash-3.00#
How do I change a symlink? Thanks!

-Kerry
 
Old 05-25-2006, 01:46 AM   #6
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First, post the contents of /usr/src

Then I can tell you exactly what to do. (Don't want to give you a line that won't work. Will only take a second after you post)
 
Old 05-25-2006, 08:29 AM   #7
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Contents are:

ATI linux linux-2.4.31 rpm speakup-2.4.31.

All are directories except for "linux" which is a symlink to "linux-2.4.31".

Thanks,

-Kerry
 
Old 05-25-2006, 02:07 PM   #8
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ok.
Then you need to install the kernel sources for 2.6.13.
(That's why you're getting the 'symlink' error, ATI needs the kernel sources to compile)

Easy to do: Mount CD2, cd to it, cd to /testing/linux-2.6.13, run pkgtool in that dir. Tell it to install the sources, modules, and alsa (Looks like you already installed the 'kernel-generic'). Do the above as 'root', or su.

Reboot, and try the ATI thing again.

Let us know

Last edited by cwwilson721; 05-25-2006 at 02:09 PM.
 
Old 05-25-2006, 04:00 PM   #9
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Ok, I got through the process posted by Shilo. At the end of his post it shows him running "fglrxconfig". I do not have this script. I did everything in the process how he did, got the same results, minus this config script. Is it available for download somewhere? Or can I manually edit the file the script edits to accomplish the same thing? Last question for this post, is the "aticonfig" utility supposed to be a script, or is it just supposed to show you all the options you can use with it? I never get a script that opens in my terminal window, it just lists the switches I can use. And while it does give a description, it uses language I don't know much about, with all the anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering etc.

Thanks for all your help!
 
Old 05-25-2006, 04:07 PM   #10
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Look at my thread about DRI, link in my sig. Has an extensive section on ATI
 
Old 06-16-2006, 06:53 PM   #11
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In more recent versions of the ATI drivers fglrxconfig is now being called aticonfig.
try aticonfig --help
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