ATI drivers on Slackware
I'm trying to get my ATI drivers installed, I folowed the directions from here.
here is part of the log when i tried a startx: Code:
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx" Thanks |
any help? :(
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I successfully got it started... maybe..
I followed a tut and did all the magic commands, and eventualy did 'fglrxconfig' and set it up the right way. then restarted the X server and it worked. BUT, how do i know what config file is loaded when i do startx? becauses there is always the Xorg.conf file in the /etc/X11/ directory. And plus, all graphic apps are running extremly slow, so I doubt it is workign.. How do I ensure that my driver is running? :( |
type "glxinfo" in a console and see if direct rendering is enabled
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direct rendering is not enabled :(.. How do I enabled it?
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not sure what you're doing wrong but this is what i did.
rpm2targz fglrx*.rpm tar -xvzf fglrx*.tar.gz -C / cd /usr/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod sh make.sh cd .. sh make_install.sh The next step is to Configure your X server: fglrxconfig after driver install logout and login as a user NOT root |
but after i do fglrxconfig and save it, it loads up as the default Xorg.conf file..
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i would say try running fglrxconfig again it should write over the default Xorg.conf file. make sure you have write permissions to that file.
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I manually overwrote xorg.conf with X86Config-4 and on startx it said "fglrx module not found" and "cannot load driver"
and now im sad :( Any suggestions at all? I would really like to get this running |
where did the XF86Config-4 come from?
are you using the xorg ati drivers ( unless you run an older slackware) ? also, can you manually insert the frglx module? |
it said to get xfree version from ATI.com
and it wrote XF86Config-4 at the end of fglrxconfig am I supposed to get xorg version of ati drivers? |
depends on what version of slack you are running, in a console:
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also, you cannot go out and follow random guides, make sure they apply first. if that guide was written for slack 9, some things might not apply for slack 10.1 ( this applies for all distro's , there are alot of old guides floating around on the net). |
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X Window System Version 6.8.1 should i try the x.org version of the ATI drivers? |
wouldn't be a bad idea, remove the other one first, make sure it builds correctly and re-run frglxconfig and see if that helps.
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how can i remove everything that i have done, so i can get a clean start?
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how did you install it? remove the package you turned into a tgz ( if you did that) and reverse your steps.
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Slackware 10.1 is X Org 6.8
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