radeon 8500, 64mb - accelerated X

olal · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 6:04 am Post subject: radeon 8500, 64mb - accelerated X

Hi

I have for a while tried to install the radeon 8500 drivers that ATI released. But with no sucess.
I have been reading the threads in this forum aswell as threads in other forums.

I tried to follow this 2 threads. with no succes.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=6651&highlight=radeon+8500
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14401&highlight=radeon+8500

anyone feel free to help me

?

tanks alot

.ola lindberg - sweden

olal · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 3:06 pm Post subject:

tried to install the dri-drivers
it went ok.. but when i run glxgears i just get this message & glxgears doesnt start:

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

any ideas?

tanks again

.o

olal · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 3:07 pm Post subject:

sorry, i forgot this one

i manage it to boot at the correct mode (1280x1024@85) using radeon framebuffer in console..

tanks again

.o

fmalabre · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 376 Location: Chicago

You tried with the FireGL drivers?

olal · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 7:17 pm Post subject:

jepp
the fireGL drivers
the ATI drivers
the DRI drivers

i must do something wrong

)

Swishy · Guru Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ

olal · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:26 pm Post subject:

yes

tanks anyway

did acually forgett it the first time

.o

Swishy · Guru Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ

cool , I thought i'd check I did the same after setting up my Matrox the first time ..

Cheers
Dale.
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olal · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:08 pm Post subject:

but it didnt work when i added it..

have not a clue

jules · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Denton, TX

this is from a text file i keep around to remind me how to do this:

compile kernel - agpgart & dri as modules
reboot - not sure if necessary
install radeon rpm (rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force fglr200-glc22-4.2.0-1.4.3.i586.rpm)
cd /lib/modules/fglr200/build_mod
./make.sh
cd /lib/modules/fglr200
./make_install.sh
fglrxconfig (save /etc/X11/XF86Config first, if there's anything valuable in it) - here, you're safe choosing most of the default values, make sure you know what type of mouse you have and the horizontal and vertical refresh rates for your monitor
startx, run glxgears and be happy!

olal · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2002 5:30 pm Post subject:

tanks alot
have don exactly what youve told med.. but still no sucess

bash-2.05a# glxgears
glxgears: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared o
bject file: No such file or directory

You can check my config-files if you have any ideas..

http://www.onemanarmy.net/misc/XFree86.0.log
h
ttp://www.onemanarmy.net/misc/XF86Config

tanks ALOT

.ola

Radi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 108

same problem to me, look with 'ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so.1' it just points to a directory, not to the mesa opengl driver in this directory change the link the libmesagl.so (i don't know if is this the correct name because i don't have an X on my machine at work (win2k

) . if you don't get it, just write an i will look at home for the correct filenames.

kappax · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 6:09 pm Post subject:

jules · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Denton, TX

i have the same link as kappax above.

olal, try radi's suggestion to link to the appropriate file.

good luck.

olal · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 7:07 pm Post subject:

could anyone of you please help me..
im stressed up in school and really need to get this up and running so i can resume my haskell-functionall programming stuff..

im prepared to do this from the beginning, with a totaly frehs install of everything (maybe X is just needed?)

any advices?

A step by step thingie would be GREATE! (maybe to muched asked.. but

)

Tanks alot for the patinece

.o

Radi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 108

is /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 also a link or is it a real library?

/edit: at first try jules points then check the errormessages, look for the libraries if they are present inluding the symlinks. and don't forget opengl-update xfree

kappax · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 8:42 pm Post subject:

olal · Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 4:25 pm Post subject:

which of the drivers are best to install?
i will never play games, but want to have some kind of accel. X..

the dri-r200 drivers?

tanks

.o

Night_Phoenix · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 5 Location: Omaha

Thanks for the info, I was having problems getting UT and Tux Racer running because it couldn't locate the libGL.so file, after reading this I found libGL.so in /usr/lib I copied the link from /usr/lib and put it into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions and suddenly, bam, Tux Racer and UT ran like a champ, I'm suddenly very impressed with the accelleration speeds I got in Linux, I'm definitely a convert now

when I started to hear that there was going to be a performance hit since I don't use Nvidia cards(ATI Radeon 7200 DDR) I was almost discouraged, however, after fixing my OpenGL problem, and seeing the dramatic speed increase in UT (Comparing Win32 Performance to Linux) I am definitely impressed. Once again, thanks for the Info

it's helped me begin to fully appreciate the power of the Penguin.