fglrx driver for kernel 2.6.22.1 (custom build)
if anyone can point me in the right direction as to where to find an ATI driver such as fglrx
for a dell laptop with this card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] on fedora core 6 running a custom compiled 2.6.22.1 kernel that would be appreciated i have been going in circles as of so far so any pointers will helep ;) |
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hmm
i might be making progress but small glxinfo gives me the following: Code:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". Code:
1129 frames in 5.1 seconds = 241.058 seconds Code:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". |
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A few things to try...........
First try using the older ati-x11-drv package built for FC6; http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1184 Second try the very latest ATI driver built according the the Installer instructions; http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ux-radeon.html Also see: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Fed...allation_Guide |
grr.. this is driving me nutz, no matter what i seem to install or uninstall it seems to fail to load X11 then forces it's way back to the default 'radeon' driver. what in gawd's name could i be doing wrong?
alot of times i'll see Code:
oh yes.. ive installed from yum.. various .run packages by doing sh *package*.run or sh *package*.yum --buildpkg Fedora/FC6 then installing the resulting RPM -packages, edited the xorg.conf files in various ways suggested, all no dice |
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For comparison here is what I currently have; $ rpm -qa 'fglrx64*' fglrx64_7_1_0-8.433-1.x86_64 This rpm package was built from the latest ATI driver package ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run as root from runlevel 3 I did; chmod u+x ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run sh ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run I choose to build a Distribution Specific Driver Package, when done my next steps were; rpm -e ati-x11-drv rpm -ivh fglrx64_7_1_0-8.433-1.x86_64.rpm I did not need to change my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (as I have been using ATI's driver package since I had my current laptop); Code:
$ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series OpenGL version string: 2.1.7059 Release $ fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer 1492 frames in 5.0 seconds = 298.400 FPS 1873 frames in 5.0 seconds = 374.600 FPS $ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 $ glxgears 9019 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1803.711 FPS 9232 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1846.255 FPS You might want to check and maybe clean out the /usr/lib[64]/fglrx any broken symbloic links. I do build my own custom kernels using the kernel.org sources. $ uname -a Linux Aspire5100 2.6.23.8 #2 Sat Nov 17 11:04:03 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/*release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga) |
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