Reinstalling Gentoo with a new Radeon 9600 128mb

tjfriese

Hi all.

I just bought a completely new machine, Athlon 2800 XP+, Radeon 9600 128mb, Gigabyte NForce2 motherboard, 512mb RAM, etc.

I would like to install Gentoo onto this, and get relatively OpenGL performance, if possible. I used to run it on a Radeon 7500, and always got fairly substandard performance.

What are some of the things that I need to be aware of? What kernel should I use? Where can I go to fins this information? Any links or pointers that people can provide would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

--Tim

silverpig · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:07 am Post subject:

I use the gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.0) kernel and it works well on my 9800 Pro.

Make sure you have agpgart compiled as a module in the kernel.
Make sure you have nvidia agp support compiled as a module in the kernel (not 100% sure if that's the actual name of it in the tree)
Do an emerge ati-drivers once you have xfree emerged

run fglrxconfig

copy XF86Config-4 to /etc/X11

make sure the fglrx, agpgart, and nvidia_agp modules are loaded when you do an lsmod

test with fglrxinfo and glxgears
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tjfriese · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 9:42 am Post subject: Thanks a lot!

Thanks for your quick reply!

Anyone have any idea when 2.6 will make it into either gentoo sources or the gaming kernels?

Wedge_ · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:39 am Post subject:

gentoo-dev-sources == gentoo-sources-2.6

Additionally, a lot of the performance hacks that were added to gentoo/gaming-sources were taken from 2.6. In any case you still get superb desktop performance even from an unpatched 2.6 kernel because of all the changes from 2.4.
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