Grr...ati drivers

ch13f121 · 02-15-2006, 04:57 PM

Ok, I followed shilo's instructions on his website, on how to install ati's drivers. I first ran into problems when the instructions told me this:

Quote:

modprobe agp-gart
modprobe intel-agp
modprobe fglrx

Now, agp-gart was agpgart in slack, and I don't know my chipset module, but I do know I have a via pt880 chipset Northbridge, with a via 8237 southbridge. Anyway, fglrx is already loaded, but when I run fglrxconfig, it says the command doesn't exist. Can someone walk me through the install of my drivers, and is there a way to start over by removing all ati affiliated files?

comprookie2000 · 02-15-2006, 06:21 PM

Ati has a new installer that has worked good for me. There site is a little hard to find it. Here is a link to it but I think they block links for some reason but just try and get to it.
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...22.5-inst.html

XavierP · 02-15-2006, 06:36 PM

fglrxconfig doesn't exist in newer drivers try

Code:

aticonfig --initial

ch13f121 · 02-15-2006, 07:27 PM

oh really? neato, thanks a lot guys, I was getting really mad, looking for a command that didn't exist. anyway how do I know that I got the drivers installed?

nutronix · 02-15-2006, 08:35 PM

i tested mine with glxgears ,big difference with the generic drivers the card was using before. And lsmod shows fglrx is loaded. man aticonfig useful also.

ch13f121 · 02-15-2006, 09:15 PM

well, how's about 300fps or so sound for glxgears?

cathectic · 02-15-2006, 09:30 PM

fglrxinfo

It should return something like this:

Code:

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 Pro Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5642 (8.22.5)

The card will obviously vary depending on which one you actually have. If it says 'Mesa' though, then you haven't installed and set up X with fglrx properly yet.

ch13f121 · 02-15-2006, 09:37 PM

awww it says mesa

what do I do to fix that?

Quote:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)

MMYoung · 02-15-2006, 11:03 PM

aticonfig --initial

J.W. · 02-16-2006, 12:03 AM

Or switch to nVidia

ch13f121 · 02-16-2006, 05:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by J.W.

Or switch to nVidia

...the only thing that I have nvidia at my house, is a geforce2. my 9600 is clearly better, and I'm broke, so no new video card :-/

And MMYoung, I've already did that, it says its configured it.

MMYoung · 02-16-2006, 05:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ch13f121

...the only thing that I have nvidia at my house, is a geforce2. my 9600 is clearly better, and I'm broke, so no new video card :-/

And MMYoung, I've already did that, it says its configured it.

Yeah, sometimes changing to a new video card ain't an option.

In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf do you see this line in the "Section "Device"" section that reads:
Driver "fglrx"

If not then it ain't loading up the ATI drivers. If it is there, can you manually "insert" the module by using modprobe? Get out of X and from the command line as root, try this:

depmod -a
modprobe fglrx

You should get NO error messages from either of those commands. If you do get error messages, post them here.

Later,
MMYoung

comprookie2000 · 02-16-2006, 02:51 PM

One thing to get dri enabled is to make sure you have the modules that fglrx
needs, hope this helps;
http://www.cosmicpothole.com/Linux/ati.php

ch13f121 · 02-18-2006, 08:55 PM

I just got it working, thanks guys.

I switched distros, however, but I didn't leave the slackware side

I'm using zenwalk, which I think has improved since the last time I used it...which was 2.0 I think.

1000fps in glxgears, as opposed to 250 or something before hand.

Swift&Smart · 02-21-2006, 06:03 AM

Hello,everyone.

Sorry for interrupting in this thread without contributing a solution.

By the way,I didn't follow the instruction regarding ATI display card from the Slackware HOW I DO IT ALL because it's outdated in that part.I would like to ask,is there any improvement on performance or display quality?If it does,I will follow the new instruction here or I will stick to the generic configuration.

I appreciate if you would kindly drop me a line.