New ATI-Drivers Thread

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:02 am Post subject:

It seems to work fine for some people. I think it also depends on which of the two radeon framebuffer drivers you're using. IIRC, the older one is more likely to work.
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Arainach · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 609

Drivers run fine. No faster, no slower, although I'm now on X.org 6.8.0 instead of 6.7.0, so that's something. Framebuffer (using vesa-tng) works fantastic.

One wierd thing: Under 6.7.0/the last drivers, I had to have DRI support compiled into my kernel to get 3D Acceleration (I know every guide tells you to turn it off; it was frustrating, but after many recompiling tests, I conclusively proved that on my 9800 Pro 3D Acceleration worked with DRI and didn't work without it. Direct causal relationship). Under 6.8.0/the latest drivers, I didn't have 3D Acceleration until I recompiled the kernel without the DRI. So I guess that it's back to "normal" for me.

Oh well, at least they proved that they can give accuarate dates. Now I just want my Windows speeds, dangit! If I had known this I would have gotten a 5900XT.
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ShiftyEyes · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Champaign, IL

Quick question: Is the build on portage or not? I did emerge --sync and then searched for ati-drivers, and it just gives me the old ones. I then searched for the version number and still didn't find them I'm still getting used to portage and everything so I might just be missing it. I am really looking forward to installing these!

X-Drum · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:51 am Post subject:

i'm not happy, this driver isn't powerful as i espect...
anyway, i got a big problem with this driver and my favorite game
here

i'm going to change my card and buy an Nvidia...

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platojones · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:54 am Post subject: It's Alive....for now

Ok, read the thread, decided it looked good, re-synced and emerged ati-drivers. I removed the xorg clamp from package.mask. Worked perfect right out of the box. Just one problem I hope someone can help me with. Seems when I 'emerge -up --deep world', emerge wants to downgrade both the new Xorg and ati-drivers. I still have the old ati-drivers-extras installed because the new version of that isn't out yet (or at least not in portage). Is that the problem? Anybody got any ideas?

platojones · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:03 am Post subject:

Ok, I retract my last post...Since the time I emerged ati-drivers this morning and now, they've changed to mask on ati-drivers from stable "+86" to unstable "~x86" and they've since added ati-drivers-extra as unstable on x86. Time to re-sync and try again.

steve_d555 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:19 am Post subject:

LoL, too "bad" i bought a Nvidia 5200 over the weekend. Had some extra money, and thought if these drivers werent up to par then i would switch. O well, Sorry ATI, youve lost yet another customer. Another to add to the thousands you have already lost. Even though they came out with this driver (and it is pretty good) , who knows when the next release will be: a month, 2 months, 6 months, another year? I cannot wait this long just to play Unreal or Enemy Territory, it is not humanely possible. That is why i bought the nVidia Card.

Just my 2cents

--Steve

ShiftyEyes · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Champaign, IL

Okay, I think I emerged them properly, but I'm having some issues installing them. First, when I run fglrxconfig it lists the supported boards and the x700 isn't listed. It doesn't seem to have updated the fglrx thing, and it can't find my board. I know it's supported by the drivers, so what do I need to do?

djdunn · l33t Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 810

there buggy last time i used them
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ColBond · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 41

Ok, running amd64, when I try to emerge ati-drivers(yes i have keywords ~amd64) I get:
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su# aemerge ati-drivers
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/ati-drivers-8.8.25 to /

!!! No message digest entry found for file "fglrx64_6_8_0-8.8.25-1.x86_64.rpm."
!!! Most likely a temporary problem. Try 'emerge sync' again later.
!!! If you are certain of the authenticity of the file then you may type
!!! the following to generate a new digest:
!!! ebuild /usr/portage/category/package/package-version.ebuild digest

/usr/portage/media-video/ati-drivers
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and when i run 'ebuild ati-drivers-8.8.25.ebuild digest':
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>>> Generating digest file...
<<< fglrx_6_8_0-8.8.25-1.i386.rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/ebuild", line 49, in ?
a=portage.doebuild(pargs[0],x,getroot(),tmpsettings,debug=debug,cleanup=cleanup)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2654, in doebuild
return (not digestgen(aalist,mysettings,overwrite=1))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2071, in digestgen
mydigests=digestCreate(myarchives, basedir, oldDigest=myolddigest)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2005, in digestCreate
mydigests[x] = mysums
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'mysums' referenced before assignment

/usr/portage/media-video/ati-drivers
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i really don't know what to do from here....

iplayfast · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:22 am Post subject: mm-sources AGP incompatible

It appears that the mm-sources have got a different interface for the AGP stuff. (missing parameters and such).

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a kernel that has Reiser4 support?

Mo6eB · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:13 am Post subject:

The drivers work really good on my system. I've noticed some speed improvements (still haven't tested Doom3, will do in a jiffy), but UT2004 runs much faster now. Also, I don't really miss DAMAGE and COMPOSITE, since they are pretty much in development and won't be ready before XOrg 6.9. So far, so good.
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wimbo · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:38 am Post subject:

wimbo · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:59 am Post subject: still the same :-(

the drivers sure did'nt change a lot for me. as stated before my FPS in glxgears dropped to 50 !!
i hoped to get at least transparency working, but it scrambles up my entire screen.
one strange thing do: adding the options for transparency resulted in a higher FPS: somewhere around 180
i started tweaking xorg.conf a bit, based on my previous file (although that was meant for the kernel built in radeon driver) don't know whether these extra options do something. i do get the error starting glxgears

Parmus · n00b Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 7 Location: Denmark

I'm missing gl.h, glx.h and glxtokens.h from /usr/lib/opengl/global/include with the new drivers. The symlinks in /usr/X11R6/include/GL are invalid. Can anyone else confirm this?

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:20 am Post subject:

@wimbo: have you tried using fglrxconfig to create a config file? The composite extension isn't properly supported by the drivers, so it's not really worth trying to use it, and it will also disable 3D acceleration if you do turn it on. The glxgears error is just saying that 3D acceleration isn't working.

@Parmus: I only have glext.h in /usr/lib/opengl/global/include, but the symlinks in /usr/X11R6/include/GL are valid (they end up in /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/include).
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Parmus · n00b Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 7 Location: Denmark

wimbo · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject:

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject:

Do you have any errors in your Xorg log? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) Is the fglrx module loading correctly?

@Parmus: does running opengl-update ati or opengl-update xorg-x11 make any difference?
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wimbo · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject:

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Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject:

cron0 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:35 pm Post subject:

I have a Radeon 9800 Pro.
Well, Xorg 6.8.1.902 works fine here. No error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

ENEMY-TERRITORY: Works and I get high FPS using 1280x1024 Highest quality. I'm also having graphical glitches problems with triangles appearing random on the screen sometimes.

DOOM3-DEMO: Crashed on me a couple of times when trying "High" and "Very High" quality settings. Didn't crash using "low" but even then, I had low FPS.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT (using Cedega): Playable. Cedega crashes when changing resolutions or video settings in-game. Sometimes the game just hang after entering the world. I haven't tried the mini-map fix and such yet....

I tried http://www.humus.ca GLSL demos, they work great without any problems, even Fullscreen at highest resolution I get high FPS.

COMPOSITE: Enabling composite disables DRI. Using xcompmgr to enable eye-candy stuff makes my KDE 3.4 go crazy, background is all black, windows do not redraw correctly. Using transset to set transparency doesn't work here on KDE 3.4.

That's about it, I wanted to test Half-Life 2 using Cedega but I couldn't get it to install (got an error from the Windows Installer).

New drivers are a ++ here, but I can't wait to see what's next. Bugfixes, performance, compatibility.

Thanks ATI, you made me believe again

Cron0.

wimbo · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject:

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:58 pm Post subject:

Try setting "PseudoColorVisuals" to "off", and change the "8" in the "Capabilities" setting to a "0" (this disables vertical sync).
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