Better driver for ATI Radeon 9250?
I have an ATI Radeon 9250 and I'm wondering if I need better drivers for it, because screensavers such as the Flurry are incredibly slow.
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It certainly sounds like it. Good luck, the ATI drivers are notorious for being hard to get working.
Here's ATI's website Not sure about SUSE, but I can tell you a few common problems right now: -Need Kernel source to install -Need gcc or other dependencies to install -Need to know XFree86 version If you have this problem, don't bother with ATI's executable. Instead run:-Need POSIX shared memory enabled (if so, search it, it's easier than you might think) Those are all the problems that I can think of that are possible with the latest drivers. Good luck, and don't be discouraged, the answers to all your ATI woes can be found on this site. Steve PS If you install and type glxinfo and see the word MESA anywhere, something went wrong |
X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE Current Operating System: Linux linux 2.6.13-15.7-smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 14:32:29 UTC 2005 i686 Build Date: 07 October 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present |
There's a helpful part in the support document from ATI on this part - it's the part that talks about "tmpfs" and "/dev/shm"
The steps I took to get it working: - Installed fglrx drivers from .i386.rpm file downloaded from ATI (for the Xorg 6.8, not Xfree86) - ]# fglrxconfig |----> Go through the whole config - default settings are fine - and just use option 1 for keyboard. (standard 101 keyboard - U.S. English) - Quote:
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I installed the drivers, but the screen savers still lag and direct rendering is still disabled.
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getting the mesa drivers out is massively difficult in many cases, especially of late. The last time I had any good luck was with 2.6.14 and 2.6.14.1 with the drivers of the time. Since then with later drivers and later kernels, it is REALLY less than fun. In some cases it was flatout impossible to get the mesa drivers to go away and switch into the ATI with DRI. You can check many threads on the subject, or my website, but good luck, it is a long, hard battle at times depending on kernel driver version and other such things.
I feel you. Once you do get the Mesas to go away, stick with it, and don't change a thing. the ATI drivers with DRI are fairly impressive and responsive once you get passed the grime of installing them properly. |
I've been searching various forums and it sounds like I'm supposed to use the ati-driver-installer-8.20.8-i386.run to generate a distro-specific RPM installer. Unfortunately, the installer only generates RPMs for Debian, Mandriva and Ubuntu.
I found a guide that tells me to download a driver from SuSE.com, but I went there and couldn't find a driver. |
No, you can generate a SuSE 10 driver IA32-SUSE100, just look a bit more for details. However, you don't have to use an rpm, you can just run the script and it works every bit as well. just "./atietcetcetc" in command line as su.
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Initially I just ran the script, and although the ATI Control Panel is installed, and it finds my video card, it still believs I have some Mesa thing installed. My screen saver still lags, and I get an error about not having a 3D graphics card when I run Tux Racer.
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