Installing Radeon 9250 - Trouble Following Guide [SOLVED]

Maheriano · Last edited by Maheriano on Fri May 12, 2006 4:55 pm; edited 2 times in total

I'm following the guide on here for ATI cards and I configured the modules through

Maheriano · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject:

Oh, a few more things you might want to know.
2.6 kernel
KDE
It's my desktop computer I use everyday for everything.
The card's a PCI VGA/DVI/S-Video Radeon 9250 and I hope to use all 3 video out ports with the help of a DVI-VGA adapter I just bought.
I'm moving from onboard video.
I'll be waiting here for any help...thanks.
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Maheriano · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject:

waiting
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Maheriano · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:10 am Post subject:

Not waiting in front of the computer anymore. Please help me though.
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Maheriano · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject:

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Maheriano · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject:

Not that anyone's reading this, but I added SDK to my USE flags and then typed

megadonkey · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject:

Just cut and paste

ebichu · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject:

loki99 · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:06 pm Post subject:

Please stop bumping your thread so often. If you do have to bump it, wait at least 24 hours before doing so.

It won't get you the answer faster. On the contrary. :wink:

bobspencer123 · Guru Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544

two things: you don't need "insecure drivers" with that card. I had a radeon 9200 working perfectly without that in a xorg all the way up to modular 7.0 build.

second: If it is a pci card (not agp, not pciexpress) you don't need agp options. Those are for agp cards.

just enable pci in your kernel.

emerga -va ati-drivers

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

You don't need "insecure-drivers". All you need is to emerge xorg. See that 'xv' is in your USE line in make.conf in case you want video accel. And/or opengl (or 'dri' in case you run ~x86) for 3d. Then setup xorg.conf and put 'radeon' in your driver line. I got the same card, AGP though, but that shouldn't matter.

mic

Maheriano · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject:

Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!

So I enabled in the kernel what it told me to in the guide. I hope that's right, you'll have to point me like a dummy if it isn't.
Then I added

Maheriano · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

Not trying to bump but I've done a lot of searching and butchered together this xorg.conf file from what I found. I was hoping someone could take a look at it before I rebooted and lost my video if it's wrong.

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Try this one. Check font paths. You don't need ati-drivers for the 9250.

Maheriano · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject:

Sorry but what do I do with that? Check the fonts? I don't get it. Do I copy that exact script or modify it somehow? I'm a little dumb.

I need a second screen and second monitor section as well I think.
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bobspencer123 · Guru Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544

well first things first: you can use either the ati-drivers provided by ati or the open source radeon driver. You need to make that decision yourself.

but if you choose ati drivers then command is

as regular user aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

I believe if you need to do it as root. The command is located either in /sbin or /opt/ati/bin/

but if you want to use radeon then enable dri in kernel, select radeon and use "radeon" as your driver in xorg.conf

Maheriano · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:08 am Post subject:

Maheriano · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:52 am Post subject:

Maheriano · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:38 am Post subject:

Last one for the night.

I just shutdown my computer, installed the card, hooked up both monitors to it, rebooted, and it started booting up with the same image on both monitors. I think it would have been fine, but it said the drive hadn't been checked in 23 mounts so it forced a check and got stuck at 27.7%. So I pushed the power button, rebooted it, and the screens wouldn't turn on, they said to check the signal cable. Nothing would make them come on so eventually I had to remove the card and put the hardware back the way it was with the single monitor (the way it is now) and then it booted up. It forced the check again and said it fixed some error and had to reboot. It rebooted, and then wouldn't load right into KDE because it complained about xorg.conf. I removed the one line it didn't like, rebooted the machine, and now it's back the way it was. So I have 2 questions....
1. Why did it boot up dual monitor first and then didn't work?
2. What am I doing wrong?
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loki99 · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:15 am Post subject:

Maheriano · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

I went through the first guide you posted there and got to the part where you

bobspencer123 · Guru Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544

The first error (in compiling of the drivers) indicates that you do not have agp support in your kernel.

There are two things you need

agpgart -- which is located in device drivers->character devices->/dev/agpgart <M>
agp support for your specific chipset. This is located right below agpgart and would be something like intel-agp, via-agp, etc. depending on your mobo. To find out, if you don't know, the output of lspci as root will inform you.

also if you have a 64bit processor you need amd64agp support. That's also right below agpgart and called "AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support (NEW)"

Then save your kernel and recompile:
make && make modules_install
mount /boot --if it isn't already
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/nameofyourkernel

emerge ati-drivers
modprobe agpgart
modprobe via-agp (or whatever your's is called"
modprobe amd64agpt (not sure of the exact name here but only do if you cpu is 64 bit amd)
env-update && source /etc/profile
aticonfig --initial -iagp=off --input /etc/X11/xorg.conf

if you still can't find aticonfig command then search for it

whereis aticonfig
find / aticonfig

loki99 · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:

And you need to use the ~x86 drivers to use aticonfig as the howto points out.

Maheriano · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject:

Do I still use AGP for this PCI card?
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loki99 · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject:

The ati radeon 9250 is an AGP card. :lol: