Yes I compiled it, but I didn't install it on top of an existing installation or anything. I didn't give the driver a real rigorous test or anything either. I just started x, everything went smoothly and then ran glxgears to make sure my framerates were ok. Im not much of a gamer btw; I just like my screensavers to run smoothly

you are currently my new god Shade

i have been trying to get my R9000 (M9) to work for the last 12 months and with this little tutorial it wored!!!!

Steps i took:

1) got current ati drivers (http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fg...3.9.0.i386.rpm) for the radeon 9000
2) downloaded the dri radeon driver
3) installed and recompiled the kernel
4) configured my xorg.conf file...

(can you tell i'm happy?)

anyways... i'm off to play ut2003

torm

Glad to help :-D

Go get Wolfenstein : Enemy Territory... And I'll meet you in the forward bunker

As an update to make this post somewhat worthwhile, the same exact config works for me with the nvidia nforce2 chipset on my new Asus A7N8X-X board, as well.


--Shade

Can you please elaborate on:
2) where do I get the dri radeon driver?
3) which kernel do I recompile, the /lib/module/fglrx/build_mod or /usr/src/linux

Please HELP!!!

Dear " Shade" , you made so many people happy. please do it to me too.

Let me Know , does this work for the following. ?

AMD 64 (939 PIN) 3000+Processor

MSI Motherboard with on baord "ATI Radeon XPress 200G Graphics".

System Running on " SuSE 9.3 Pro. x86_64.

One thing more : what is XFree86 and 'xorg' etc. how can i know that which XFree verssion my system has.

Thanks.
&
Regards.

Hi Shade. I'm new to Linux , I just replaced windows with it. So far it's a lot easier to use than I envisioned. But I can't get the AMDGPU to perform as it did before. I have tried several different versions of catalyst to no avail. It looks like you got yours to work but the script you posted seems like so much gobbledygook to me. I don't know that much about programming. I'm using a Radeon HD7640G. Could you dumb the info down so I can do it.
thanks
gord

The latest post is pushing almost 12 years. It is most likely completely invalid considering how things with computers change in 12 years. Please start a new post and provide as much detail as you can. If you are not running Slackware, find the forum of your distro as each distro handles video drivers differently (especially if you want to use proprietary drivers).

But a quick glance at your hardware shows it won't be supported by the amdgpu driver from AMD as this will only (eventually) support GCN hardware and your card does not use that architecture. Depending on the version of X your distro runs, you may only be able to use the opensource drivers as AMD doesn't support Xorg 1.18 with any non-amdgpu-pro drivers. However, don't worry, because the opensource drivers are actually pretty good for AMD.

Thanks I will try that

Indeed. Reviving a long-dead (12 year old) thread is generally not worthwhile or a good idea. As bassmadrigal stated please start a new topic.