On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Jeremy Byron wrote:
David Lockwood wrote:
Lastly, for the latest ATI driver (now fglrx_6_8_0-8.18.6-1.i386.rpm)
I would really like to use the latest driver but the patches don't apply
properly to this version. I'm not using a SMP machine/kernel and I'm not
using a VIA-AMD64 chipset - am I right I don't need these patches?
I saw somewhere the pagetable patch was no longer necessary. Has anybody
got this driver working?
Try building it without patches, if it builds without errors, copy it to the
/lib/modules/.../kernel/char/drm directory.
Copy the /etc and /usr files packaged with the rpm to the same directories on
your system.
Finally, what's most likely your problem if you've already gotten this far is
a missed dependency. The binary ATI drivers rely on a lib in gcc-3.3.x;
follow the blfs book to install gcc-3.3.6, copy the lib as suggested, then
remove gcc-3.3.6 if you don't need it anymore. You didn't post a log of your
X startup, but if you read it and it says everything was initialized
successfully but you don't have 3D acceleration in X, this is the fix.
Hmm, interesting -- I have gcc 3.4.1 and linux-2.6.11 and Radeon 9800
(kernel and xorg configuration similar to Jeremy's -- so no patches, no
special installation tricks) and everythings works fine with the automatic
installer which ATI provides (since this summer, but I am not sure). Did
you try it? The only trouble I had was about xorg.conf and the "load
modules" sequence -- next one bellow works fine for me:
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
But I think installer could help.
Have a nice day
Vlastik
Regards,
Jeremy.
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