Ati drivers dont work

jasonpeinko · 10-11-2006, 08:07 PM

I downloaded the ati drivers from ATIS website and then installed them by building the Mandriva 2007 and then installed the RPMS. And when i reboot KDE never shows up once Mandriva has loaded. Why?

equinox · 10-11-2006, 10:32 PM

What card do you have? What is the exact procedure you followed? I have an X1600 256mb card PCIE and it works for me with the proprietry drivers from the ATI website on Mdv 2007.

RolledOat · 10-11-2006, 10:33 PM

You have to give us more to go on than that. I am not picking on you, but do you mean rebulding the kernel? What specific RPMS, did you follow the install instructions to the letter? What happens when you boot up, does KDE keep looping? Does the computer not boot at all now, where does it hang up? The more specific and more detailed you can be, the better someone can suggest something.

RolledOat

Emmanuel_uk · 10-12-2006, 01:24 AM

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The more specific and more detailed you can be, the better someone can suggest something.

seconded

what card? what driver version?

ATI 9xxx are not supported by the driver after 8.28.8

jasonpeinko · 10-12-2006, 11:05 AM

Ok I have a 9200 and the driver version is 8.29.6.

equinox · 10-12-2006, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by jasonpeinko

Ok I have a 9200 and the driver version is 8.29.6.

As someone already posted, ATI dropped support for 9xxx chips starting fromt the 8.29.6 release. You need to use the open source driver.

jasonpeinko · 10-12-2006, 01:30 PM

ok i downloaded the earlyer driver that supports my card and built the mandriva 2007 package and when i try to install the rpms with rpm -i package.rpm it says:

package ati-8.28.8-2mdv2007.0 (which is newer than ati-8.28.8-1mdv2007.0) is already installed

Emmanuel_uk · 10-12-2006, 02:13 PM

man rpm will help you
look at option for removing the package then install again
or option force to force the install

Anyhow, why don't you try the open source? drakx11 away

jasonpeinko · 10-12-2006, 03:06 PM

will the open source drivers give me 3d acceleration?

Emmanuel_uk · 10-13-2006, 01:49 AM

yes it does on my 9250

jasonpeinko · 10-13-2006, 10:22 AM

ok where do i get/install the drivers?

Emmanuel_uk · 10-14-2006, 02:24 AM

it is part of the distro. Nothing to do apart
from running as root (su command in a terminal)
drakx11 and choosing "radeon" as opposed to fglrx which is ati

jasonpeinko · 10-14-2006, 04:19 PM

ok no opengl direct rendering or no 3d accel

Emmanuel_uk · 10-14-2006, 06:29 PM

there should be, look for man xorg, man radeon, google for dri as well,
look in your log /var/log/Xorg.0.log
am sorry not very useful post but you are lacking details in your own post

jasonpeinko · 10-14-2006, 07:43 PM

I got fglrxinfo to read mesa
and the xorg.conf says fglrx