X Windows and ATI Radeon 9000
 

Hello. I just installed Libranet yesterday, and am really anxious to use it. However, I am having trouble with my ATI drivers and configuring X to use them.

Here's the deal:
Anyway, I just finished installing Libranet and was getting ready to configure X. Alright, no big deal I say to myself. So it starts up, I configure my sound and my ethernet/network stuff, and then move onto the keyboard, mouse, and display. The keyboard and mouse work (I can only assume), however, I can't get the display to work. In other words, I can get the X server to start and display stuff correctly. I did the auto configure, and it found my video card as the ATI Radeon 9000, and my monitor information and I asked it to test, alas the test didn't work. So I restart, get into the adminmenu from root, and attempt to configure it manually. Again, no such luck. I set the monitor to a very basic monitor setting (one that I knew my monitor could support). I again asked it to test X server, and again, it didn't work. So now I am stuck with a good copy of Libranet on my hard drive and no way to graphically use it (which is what I want to do).

I asked this on my forums (www.openglforums.com), and I was told to set X to use generic VGA drivers at 640x480 with 256 colors. That worked! However, I think my X is running at half that, as my resolution is absolutely miniscule.

I checked the ATI site, but couldn't find a place to download the exact drivers I needed.

I searched the site and found this thread, but its a year old, and was never answered.

If you can help me, I'd be very appreciative.

Thanks,
-Vic

I figured that since the 9000 was based upon the same R200 core as the 8500 (I think) that it would be supported in XFree 4.2.1. Unfortunately this was not the case. There is hope though. :study:

Here
is a link to a excerpt of the XFree changelog that lists the addition of Support for the Radeon 9000. So if you want to live life on the edge there is support, failing that the next release of XFree will have 9000 support.

Go to
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=33988
It might work.

I'm havign problems installing drivers for my ATI 8500 (128mb). I downloaded the newest drivers from ATI. Theye didn't have one for XFree 4.2.1, so I downloaded the ones for 4.2.0. When i try to install, I get the followign error;

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.5.1 conflicts with file from package XFree86-libs-4.2.1-3mdk

Is this because the driver will not work for 4.2.1, but only for 4.2.0? Is there another problem I'm not dealing with here? ANy help is appreciated.

I've spent 3 days searching google and found zero help on this,

Don't bother with drivers at ATI, they prove almost no better performance the nthe stock linux drivers plus you will go threw hell getting the dri to work..ge the drivers from gatos at sourceforge. But to answer your questions the docs for that are on the ATI site, you have to throw rpm the -f switch to force the install. But like I said don't bother.....if the 9000 is based on the r200 chip it should work rite out of the box...I have a 8500DV...
I even got the tuner to work with sound,capture and all. GATOS :))

yes but the radeon 9700 don't work with the gatos driver (for now) :(
And if I install the driver ATI with --force after the config I can't see nothing.. the Xserver starts, but I see the vision of bill gates after some LSD!
So there may be another way to don't conflict with the libraries.. argh!

I have the same problem (I think). look for the error log at /var/log/XFree86.0.log and see if the problem is related to loading GLX. It's what happens to me... I guess ATI's drivers can't patch the drmP.h version that comes with my kernel (mdk9) and hence the error. Possibly installing a linus kernel will fix this. Also, you can try commenting ou the Load glx in XF86Config-4; if GLX is the problem, it will run, but with no OpenGL support.

yes same error, the file that isn't patched is: drmP.h.
So rebuild a new kernel? Wow let's start to study :study:
(For now I don't need openGl support under linux.. I'll maybe try the new ati drivers)

Bad news: I rebuilt a 2.4.18 linus kernel, the patch worked, but GLX still crashes... try with a newer kernel.... I heard someone said 2.4.21 (from mdk I thnk worked). BTW, this is with the new ATI drivers (2.5.1)....

so wait new ati drivers?

I am starting to think this is a MDK related question. I read about a guy which has a Sapphire 8500LE - just like mine - and the 2.5.1 drivers ran fine in his machine... perhaps it's a problem with Xfree 2.4.3 that comes with MDK 9. Could someone who had success enabling 3D accel with ATI's drivers post his config, specially the Xfree and kernel versions?

Wooky

Which linux versions are openglforums using?. Which KDE version?. I have red hat 8.0, and it works with radeon 9000. I have some problems playing dvd with xine (I will post a subject about this )It use vesa driver. Try it to put this on your XF86Config.

vesa drivers works fine (that's what I'm using right now...) bu they also don't have 3d acceleration.:(

Take a look at http://mirror.ati.com/support/faq/linux.htm. It is said to use the same driver for Radeon 8500 and Radeon 9000. There you can go to http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html and download the driver for RADEON 8500. Try this.

Thanks, but the problems I am having are *with* the ATI binary drivers.