I just installed MDK 10, and yes, I like it again, from any of u ppl who read my last thread, its good once u know how to use it. (not as good as RedHat) ANYWAYS! I just installed it on his computer, because of trojans he has been getting lately, so I just now need to install the ATI FGLRX, i dont know too much about it, but I was able to successfully install it on my RedHat 9 system, easily, no problems, period. But not so successfully on MDK 9.2 I had, so I want to start him off fresh into the linux world, and so far he likes it but not LOVES it yet, where he wants to erase his windows partition. I dont want to compile any kernels, I have never successfuly installed one without problems, and no Im not a guru but im not a newbie, i can manage my way around. (if i was a newbie i would still have windows on, but im doing fine the last 8 months without it, so good.) So if someone has something they would like to share before I venture further into his computer (like 'DONT DO THIS" or "DO THAT" is what im looking for. Im a go ahead, and do what I did on my RedHat 9, ( "rpm -Uvh --force <name of package>.rpm -- fglrxconfig and so forth) but im not soo MDK savy, so if thers a problem someone would would kindly tell me before I go further please respond soon. I dont want to leave his house without his stuff configured yet. THANX IN ADVANCED!

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This is the specs of computer... ASUS Sk8N MoBO witch is NForce 2 chipset, ATI Radeon 9600XT, Opteron Proc. 1.4Ghz (240), 512 Megs of legacy electronics ram, and thats should be it ... O mandrake 10 download version.

ok, here is what you need to do.... (some steps may be a little different..)

first you need the kernel-source,

urpmi kernel-source

next, you need the ati driver.. get it from www.ati.com

install it

rpm -i --force fglrx*.rpm # make sure there are no errors in the output of this other than taints the kernel message.

next, lets make sure you modules you need load...

modprobe agpgart #if you get no errors you are good to continue if not post up
modprobe agp-nfroce # not exactly sure on the module name....
modprobe fglrx # if you get no errors you are good to conftinue if not post up

next,

backup your config file just in case...

cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.bck

after that...

fglrxconfig #go through this section and be sure to say you are using external agpgart read the question carefully.

next, restart X to test everything

control + alt + backspace should do the trick....

if everything comes up.. logon and run the following command

fglrxinfo # if the output says ATI your are good.. if not post up

last.. you need to make this all work on reboot....

edit the file /etc/modules.conf #not sure of the file name.. check all of the for the correct one....
you need to add agpgart & fglrx...

reboot.. everything should go smoothly...

goodluck


EDIT: i would search for information regarding nforce chipset before doing all this as well.. The issues should all have been resolved with 3.9 driver.. but you never know.... #if you have the 2.6 kernel you should have no problem though

DUDE! U! ARE! THE BEST! I cant believe it ITS WORKING! OMG YES HEHEHEHEHEH! After i did what u said, it froze when i came back in, I thought "its over man, its over" but nope I restarted only to find out glxgears showed no error, and i was actualy playing chromium, and so forth. If u had affero, i would donate a dollar to u, cuz ur guide was freaken simple. THANX MAN! I hope i can get more help from u again!

Ok, Im trying to get my ATI radeon 9600 on my Mandrake 10 ditro, but doing what u told me to do on my computer didnt work. It did everything but it gave me an error, saying "oops sry this is an error, dont be afraid do something it may break ur something." Can someone help me out here??? Not working on my computer. But seems to work "flawlessley on my friends." I have an ASUS A7V600-X mother board with the KT600 or something chipset, and a Radeon 9600, and yes, i got the kernel and everything installed (2.6.3), thanx!

Ah, there we go. Followed the instructions better this time (I fuged up the order the last time) not it works:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.9.0)

Me so happy!

Ok im not saying that My friends comp cant instal the ATI drivers, but im getting this error when i try to start "fglrxinfo"

[george@localhost george]$ fglrxinfo
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual!

[george@localhost george]$

Is this an AMD processor?? I had that same probelem on an AMD machine.. it was labeled as a bug in 3.7.6.. dont know about 3.9.

Ya it is an amd processor, but I took out the radeon, because of difficultys and i still get the same error.

you backed up your config... so you can restore it...


cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.bck /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

restart X and that should take care of it.