Ati Driver For Linux.....does It Work...?


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hmm....i wonder if the ati driver for linux works......i tried it and see no difference at all....

my card is 9700 pro and i know that it is supported...., but i still couldn't play tuxracer...... : (

any tried it already....?

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well, actually i installed the driver in gnome by just clicking on the file.....but according to the installation tip, it says that i should get out of X windows system and login as root..........i'm a linux noob, so i don't know how to do that......

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Just and FYI:

I'd be very carefull if you haven't installed the ATI drvier for linux yet, to choose a x driver from xfree86config you think is close enough to the 9700. In some cases the refresh rates and RAMDAC timings can be very different from one care to the next. Choose generic SVGA driver for testing purposes. It could reck you video card if you're not careful.

Now if you want OpenGL acceleration and take advantage of the 9700, you might want to check out xigraphics.com . They make accelerated Xwindows. Its smaller, faster and better supports the video cards.

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try # lsmod

And see if the driver module is loaded or not.

Module Size Used by Tainted: PF

sg 29476 0 (autoclean)

sr_mod 13912 2 (autoclean)

sb 8960 1 (autoclean) ---->AWE32

sb_lib 39424 0 (autoclean) [sb]

uart401 7712 0 (autoclean) [sb_lib]

NVdriver 1149248 10 (autoclean) ----->Nvidia driver(latest)

vmnet 21600 6 ----->vmware

parport_pc 15012 0 (unused) ----->parallel port

parport 22560 0 [parport_pc]

vmmon 22356 0 (unused)

8139too 15392 1 ------>rtl8139 nic

mii 1980 0 [8139too]

ide-scsi 9184 1

rtc 7484 0 (autoclean)

It should look something like this...i running nvidia driver. So it was loaded as NVdriver.

I guessed you should be able to see how the ATI driver load if u do a lsmod.

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uh I tried # lsmod in console and nothing happened :/ well anyways does anyone have any ideas?

You try running it as root?

su root

lsmod

Some system related commands only acknowledge their existence when run as root.

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uh I tried # lsmod in console and nothing happened :/ well anyways does anyone have any ideas?

You try running it as root?

su root

lsmod

Some system related commands only acknowledge their existence when run as root.

yes I did samething,

[uniacid@dhcp-170-37 uniacid]$ su

Password:

[root@dhcp-170-37 uniacid]# lsmod

bash: lsmod: command not found

:blink:

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Ya XFree86 log showed that loading majority of the modules are successful.

But u have 2 failures there....

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:0) found

(EE) No devices detected.

(BusID PCI:1:0:0) this is an AGP bus. 1st AGP bus always share with 1st PCI. Do you have anything installed beside the AGP card?

Also in ya motherboard BIOS. Disable PnP bios. This will resolved some of the PnP's device detection sequence.

And ya font's directory did not return a complete transition here.

(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/".

Entry deleted from font path.

(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/").

(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

(--) using VT number 7

You might wanna try mkfontdir as suggested above.

I see if i can show u my xfree86.log.

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(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:0) found

(EE) No devices detected.

Do you have BusID"PCI:0:10:0" in the /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4)?? If yes, then try do the opposite by disable or enable whatever what's there right now. If no, then try to add it under the Driver "ati" or whatever what's driver in there.

BTW: Disable the PnP (Play-n-Plug) first as what makmak said.

Fatal server error:

no screens found

Ummm, how about you show us the XF86Config(-4) too?

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  • 2 weeks later...

You should be able to launch X window....

Can u do that?

Or you can refer to the /var/log/XFree86.0.log

And see if there is any good indication or not.

:)

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i can launch x windows even without those drivers installed....the driver is supposed to add 3d acceleration to it......so, how do i know if 3d accelaration works wihtout needing to test it with games...>?

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