ATI and Linux is so easy

rael_kid · 09-14-2005, 12:11 PM

This thing surely does not work for me

I downloaded the driver package, installed it and ran fglrxconfig. Before the whole operation glxgears measured up to 700fps, but now it's not going over 90.... What to do????

why2jjj · 09-14-2005, 02:04 PM

What does you 'fglrxinfo' say?

rael_kid · 09-15-2005, 09:06 AM

lexdv@Mercury:~ $ fglrxinfo
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)

I have an Acer 1610LMi (I believe) with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (M10)... Back when I used Windows I could easily play TRON2.0 @ 1024x768.. Now even Tuxracer is way too much... I'm sad, I wanted to go and play Planeshift...

why2jjj · 09-15-2005, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by rael_kid
lexdv@Mercury:~ $ fglrxinfo
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)

I have an Acer 1610LMi (I believe) with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (M10)... Back when I used Windows I could easily play TRON2.0 @ 1024x768.. Now even Tuxracer is way too much... I'm sad, I wanted to go and play Planeshift...

Your ATI driver is not loaded. You may think its loaded, but it is not. Though your system is probably using a 'fglrx', it is using one that uses Mesa, not what ATI wrote.

What linux distro are you using?

If you boot in 'init 3', no video driver anything should be loaded.

If you use 'modprobe' to load your driver instead of 'insmod', 'modprobe' is going to look at your modules.dep file to load your ATI driver, which in this case, will be your system's fglrx driver, which is not the ATI driver. Once you are able to load your ATI driver manually, you'll need to fix your modules.dep so that you can use modprobe currectly.

You need to find where the ATI fglrx driver was installed (for any distro other than Mandriva, my bet would be it's located /lib/modules). cd to that directory. Run 'insmod fglrx.ko', then do a fglrxinfo. Remember in my instructions I outlined, I compiled the ATI driver.

J

rael_kid · 09-15-2005, 10:14 AM

I use Ubuntu... But I've followed these instructions; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24557

glxgears now gives me 1200+ fps, fglrxinfo's output:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)

Thanks anyway!

why2jjj · 09-15-2005, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rael_kid
I use Ubuntu... But I've followed these instructions; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24557

glxgears now gives me 1200+ fps, fglrxinfo's output:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)

Thanks anyway!

Yeah, that quote that guy put up on the Ubuntu is very true:

"DO NOT USE fglrxconfig TO GENERATE YOUR xorg.conf FILE!!!!!!!!!!! - at least the first time."

I am going to use fglrxconfig to see what options it generates for the ATI card. Then I will hand-modify the xorg.conf file that the Mandriva install provided me, as I mentioned before, runs my wide-screen very well.

Seems his process is roughly the same as mine, only tailored for the snags ubuntu system can give when using ATI.

TRaven · 09-16-2005, 09:27 PM

Ok, just for starters, i'm the n00best of the n00bs, my eye twitches everytime i read all this crazy lingo, ok, i have a Radeon 9800XT and downloaded that driver, but everytime i try to run it, it says "permission denied" and whatnot. now, what i need is a step by step baby instructions, cuz i'm pathetic and dumb, i like the way linux runs so i'm trying to swtich from windows, haha, PLEASE HELP!~ (btw, i'm logged into the root thing, i thought it would have full permission for everything, and the file is in the uh...root directory....)

try not to bash me too bad, heh.

ps. i'm very visual, so if possible can ye post screenies? hahahahah, only if you can

najames · 09-18-2005, 12:30 AM

TRaven, if you're getting permission denied in the command window, you must not be logged on as root.

Run this command in the command window:

whoami

If it does not say root, your logged on as a user.

Try running the command:

su root

It should ask for a password then enter it. Now try the whoami command and see if you are root.

In Kubuntu I enter the command try it if the above fails:

sudo -s

TRaven · 09-18-2005, 09:09 AM

i ran the whoami thing, and it says root, what the heck's goin on? *sob* is there any way for me to check my permissions?

what i'm putting in the command thing (after i log in as root) is /root/ati.run (i named it ati.run to make it easier on myself, could that cause an issue?) and it says Permission denied. (i did the whoami thing too)

edit: nvm, i figured it out, the exec thing under permissions wasnt checked off, so i guess it wouldnt let do it, haha, tnx.

najames · 09-19-2005, 10:29 PM

Glad you got it figured out!!

In case you need it later on. You can likely do this if you log on as root with a GUI if not the commands will work too.

"ls -la" without the quotes will show file permissions on all the files in the directory.

Find the file you are being deined permissions for.

"chmod 777 filename" without quotes will set up read/write/execute rights to the filename file. You can use filename* or just * as wildcards too.

the first 7 gives read/write/execute (r-w-x) to the owner
the second 7 gives read/write/execute (r-w-x) to the group
and the third 7 gives read/write/execute (r-w-x) to the world

Notice the output from the ls -la command in relation?

Other values that are common are 4, 5, 6. In combinations 644, 664, 755, etc.

The command "man chmod" without the text will tell you all the details.

MemoryDump · 09-26-2005, 09:37 AM

I'm confused.. which instuctions are the right instrcutions to get the latest ATI drivers working with 9.3? I've tried every proceadure found throughout the web (i think anyways) and I still can't get them to work properly.
I even tried the ones here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/sup...ler-HOWTO.html

everytime I load these drivers I get a nice multi-colored screen that's all scrambled up.. which I can't see or do anything.. it's like the system freezes.. I can still however login remotly from another station via ssh.

I have a ATI Radeon 8500 ALL-IN-WONDER 128MB

any ideas/help please?!

thxs

najames · 09-26-2005, 11:21 PM

Uhh I don't have an ATI card, but if I did wanted it to work on Suse, I'd scour the ATI and Suse websites looking for sumpin like this.

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/04/akulk_ati93.html

badbunny · 10-10-2005, 12:16 PM

I succesfully installed the ATI drivers by following the instructions in the first post in this thread. When I tried to do the same with my friend's system (also SuSE 9.2), i got the following error log:

Code:

[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
initializing...
cleaning...
assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.10-default/build SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.10-obj/i386/default'
make -C ../../../linux-2.6.8-24.10 O=../linux-2.6.8-24.10-obj/i386/default modules
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.10/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 11: gcc: command not found
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.10/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 12: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agp3.o
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
make[4]: *** [/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agp3.o] Error 127
make[3]: *** [_module_/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x] Error 2
make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.10-obj/i386/default'
make: *** [kmod_build] Error 2
build failed with return value 2
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to compile kernel module - please consult readme.

Now, the kernel and its sources are both the same version, according to yast. Besides that, all that text could as well be Greek to me: potentially understandable, but I can't figure it out.

EDIT: guess I'm not all that stupid, after all. I installed GCC with YAST, and tried again. Now it works. Thanks anyway

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fireedo · 10-11-2005, 12:29 AM

My Howto is work perfectly with Suse 10 and OSS 10

(see my first post at this thread)

good day

akneppar · 11-11-2005, 02:56 PM

I'm not really sure if this is a silly question or not . . .

I ran the latest driver set from ATI, when watching the FPS output for glxgears, it dropped from 551 to about 180. The only thing I can think of is, the device is being reported from X as the ATI mobility 7500 (Mobility M7 LW). I (apparently) incorrectly assumed I could just use the mobility 7000 drivers instead, as at the end of the script (fglrxconfig) I get an error say no card was found that matched, and X was going to have to search for it on next startup. So, I reboot, and cross my fingers. As expected, X does not find the video adapter on its own, but it does load the GUI setup, and I'm able to choose the correct monitor and the graphic card is already completed. I save and am happily able to continue booting, however this is when I notice terrible glx slowdown. I'm running Fedora Core 4, and simply want to be able to play a game for an hour on my laptop during my commute home . . ..

Anybody got any ideas?