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itywygms 09-19-2004 08:51 PM

ati for linux
 
what distro of linux is the best for ati? they just will not work correctly with suse.

Tinkster 09-19-2004 09:12 PM

Can you be a bit more specific? What are you
trying to achieve? Installing ATI's binary drivers,
have the card work with X' native drivers?


Cheers,
Tink

itywygms 09-19-2004 09:25 PM

thanks for the reply

i want to play 3d games. ut2004, americas army, etc. i have been using suse for the last 3 weeks. i always get a segmentation fault when trying to run these games. i have searched far and wide trying to get this corrected but it seems ati and suse just do not mix.

as for your question, i do not really know what you mean. i installed the drivers which suse provided from there site.

i know my drivers are installed correctly

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.11.1)


x1-6-00-07-e9-6d-24-c0:/usr/local/games/ut2004 # glxgears
8363 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1672.600 FPS
9229 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1845.800 FPS
9229 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1845.800 FPS

Tinkster 09-19-2004 09:31 PM

Can you give an example of how you invoke the
game(s) and maybe the output from ~/.xsession-errors?

According to glxgears the drivers are just dandy :)

You could strace the games that crash, or check
the output of
ldd `which <game>`
to see whether there's any problems with other
libraries ...



Cheers,
Tink

itywygms 09-19-2004 09:37 PM

dude thanx for the quick reply.

you are talking over my head. if you can explain how to do what you ask i will be happy to do it.

thanx again

itywygms 09-19-2004 09:39 PM

maybe i understand the first question

if i want to play ut2004
i log in as root
i type ./ut2004

same with americas army

then i alwayse get this fault

x1-6-00-07-e9-6d-24-c0:/usr/local/games/ut2004 # ./ut2004
WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to change!
Xlib: extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0".
Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault]
Aborting.


Crash information will be saved to your logfile.
x1-6-00-07-e9-6d-24-c0:/usr/local/games/ut2004 #


i cannot find where the logfile is

Tinkster 09-19-2004 09:52 PM

I've done some of your homework
and found this:
Quote:

LD_PRELOAD - Posted by Anonymous -
Reply | Reply with History | Feb 15 2004 10:22:08 | 80.58.46.235
yes i got:

Xlib: extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0".
Either GL_EXT_bgra or glDrawRangeElements not supported- bailing out.

History:

Exiting due to error

then i put into System dir ( /us/games/ut2004/System )

ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1

and initiate ut2004 with

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1
ut2004demo

it works fine... :)

Cheers,
Tink

itywygms 09-19-2004 09:59 PM

thanx

i will give this a shot tomorrow, although this is not the same error i am getting.

i appreciate the help.

let ya know what happens tomorrow.

:newbie:

rntm 09-20-2004 03:13 AM

[Edit: Hey, that's in the wrong Thread ..]

ant123 09-20-2004 06:14 AM

You can use mandrake for ati video cards,
I use mandrake 10 and ati radeon 7000 with no GRAPHICAL problems.

I dont like mandrake though, i want suse 9.1 pro. How did you install it?

itywygms 09-20-2004 10:21 AM

download the suse personal iso and boot to your cd rom and install it. just as easy as installing windows. just make sure you know which drive you install it on or it will wipe out your windblows install.


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