Radeon 8500 drivers, glX missing ?
 

I tried to install the radeon drivers, but X wouldn't start :

Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

Looks like a missing shared object module perhaps ? What module if so, and where should it be ? Any other ideas ?

I did tamper with some of my ogl components at one stage, everything was quite ok with the old nVidia card, now maybe this has come back to bite me ?

Could it be that X is still looking for the nVidia drivers from before? Perhaps starting with a fresh XF86Config file. Like running in VESA mode, using the /etc/X11/XF86Config-vesa config. Then attempting to setup the radeon drivers.

Just a thought.

Like Excalibur says, if you haven't run #fglrxconfig and still carry that old config file, you'll get nowhere.
But chances are the nV drivers have overwritten a few files in /usr/X11R6.
...the first thing I'd do is reinstall X from the install cd.

Still nothing ...
 

Thanks for the suggestions. Same error though.

I no longer modprobe the nVidia drivers, I did re-install X, and my config file was generated by fglxconfig.

I think that the library isn't being found because it isn't in the right place ... is there a variable like $PATH for shared objects ?

Anyway I'm going to try a bit of reshuffling as per another thread about radeon drivers around here. Any other suggestions would be welcomed though :)

Edit : ok, I was getting ahead of myself here. I have to compile the module first !! Of course that isn't working for me. But enough for today.

Still no joy
 

I'm still trying to get the radeon 8500 drivers to work.

Using slackware 8.1

I recompiled the kernel for i686, I used rpm2tgz then installpkg'd it (I did de-tar it first to see where it all went, seemed ok).

cd /usr/src/linux
make distclean
make dep

cd /lib/modules/fglr200/build_mod
./make.sh

ATI module generator V 1.0
==========================
probing for VMA API version...
check results are inconsistent!!!
none of the probed versions did succeed.
aborting module build.

*sniff* I'm back to using windows as my main OS. Anyone know ? This has had me down for many days now.

Finally sorted out, took weeks
 

Phew. Well now they work. What a mission.

you having any problems with that radeon and the console text being garbled? when i boot up the first time the text is just fine, but once i log out or switch to a new console its totally illegiable. I'm thinking this might have somthing to do with the console frame buffer or and i think i remember seing this while trying out a diff distro.

I'll check
 

I haven't had a chance to check yet, but I will check in the next couple of days and post results.

I have a Radeon 9700 and have the same problem. I think it has something to do with framebuffers. I edited /etc/lilo.conf to use the standard vga display and it works fine...BUT...there is no penguin! Sniff...sniffle...

Pres, can you tell me what you did to get your GLX working? I didn't follow. I made exactly what the ATI docs said and I had the same problem you had... can you tell me which modules you compiled ?

Thanx

Wooky