hey guys..

Im running Mandriva 2007, and have a problem with the drivers for my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro card. It has 256mb RAM on the card. I install the ATI drivers seemingly fine. Everything seems to work right - however! the drivers dont seem to recognize the on-card ram.

I noticed in the install notes that one of the requirements for the drivers is POSIX shared memory. They said that i could just check my kernel modules and if i see a module called agpgart, then i should be fine. I checked and its there, but when i go to the driver info tab in Catalyst, it doesnt list any ram, and im not confident the ram is being used because i havent seen a significant increase in performance.

Any help would be appreciated.. thanks.

to enable posix shared memory add this to your /etc/fstab (as root):
and then (as root):
for the videoram, add this to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file under 'section "device"' (choose the one with 'driver "fglrx"') (offcourse also as root):
And then do a reboot.

I hope this works, i'm not really sure, let me now it if its working.

By the way, i have problems with my ati card too...

Actually i think i solved the problem.. i used this page -

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.. see if that does anything for you... it atleast got catalyst going like it was supposed to.

what is your score on glxgears?

Mine are always very low, unfortunately i can't test it because the drivers doesn't work...

11119 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2223.213 FPS
11575 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2314.830 FPS
14461 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2892.136 FPS
14447 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2889.267 FPS
14455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2890.835 FPS
14448 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2889.531 FPS

That's high! How do you get it this high?

I always get only about 1200/1300 frames, so that's about 250 FPS (x1600 pro 512 mb AGP)

By the way, maybe you know my problem with my ati drivers...
See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...boot-x-589734/ for more info

im on 2.4ghz celeron with 512mb ram, ati radeon 9600 pro agp 256mb...

i just installed the drivers correctly was all... read that link i posted. if you want the catalyst, you have to have compiz running while you install. i think it disables compiz afterwards.. its permanently disabled for me, but hey.. drivers work.

I have an x1600 pro 512 mb AGP, 3.0 gHz pentium 4 and 1024 mb RAM, should be enough for a resonable score...

actually.. not necessarily.... just because you have top of the line, doesnt mean better if not all the components are 100% agreeable with each other.. all hardware has at least some slight compatibility issues with other hardware at some point due to proprietary license. Just depends on if you happen to notice or care how bad it is.

konqi - read this - might help.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...how-to-108847/

I doesn't have some time right now but I will try it this weekend, hope it works.