New Ati drivers

ericxx2005 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject: New Ati drivers

Ati has come out with new drivers (8.12.10). They aren't in portage yet though. Anyone know about how long it will take for these to get into portage?

inode77 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

You can probably just take the latest actual ebuild in portage, copy it to overlay portage and modify the version numbers and it normally works.
Just for those that cannot wait. :wink:

ericxx2005 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:46 pm Post subject:

How exactly is that done? (in code anyways, i understand the theory)

EDIT: I mean copying to the portage overlay part

inode77 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject:

Edit /etc/make.conf to support overlay portage. (Normally in /usr/local/portage).
Create the same directory stucture for ati-drivers as in /usr/portage and copy the latest ebuild plus the files directory to the overaly dir.
Edit the ebuild and rename it to a higher version.
Do "ebuild <complete path to package> digest".
And now a "emerge -upv ati-drivers".

ericxx2005 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:04 pm Post subject:

I did

inode77 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:08 pm Post subject:

No no!
You don't make a digest of the binary but of the ebuild script.
I quite late here, I'll write tomorrow how exactly you do it.
Have a good night sleep.

irasnyd · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject:

irasnyd · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:41 pm Post subject:

The drivers are working fine here for me. I've only had them loaded for about 30 minutes though, so I don't know about stability yet. I was running an Onslaught map in UT2004 for the whole 30 minutes, and it ran without a hiccup, so that's a good sign.

2d performance also seems a bit better to me. It used to be fast when I first started X, then got slower as soon as I launched some apps. It used to stay slowed down until I restarted X. Now it seems to be staying fast, so that's a good sign.

EDIT: the old mousepointer bug (where it moved to the left when dragging a window to the top of the screen) is gone. Another good sign.

ericxx2005 · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:

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Awesome

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Otrack · n00b Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 5

not working for 2.6.X in which struct drm_agp_t was deleted; to correct it
patch firegl_public.c as usual with fglrx-2.6-pagetable.patch
i.e : "cat fglrx-2.6-pagetable.patch | patch firegl_public.c"
then bash make.sh

The drivers seem as usual crappy for me cause i lockup my X server after a few seconds on a
GL game :'(
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Let's hope they work with 2.6.11

Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

I have them running with gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.11-r4 and they work. (as 8.10.25 did)
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Mad_Dude · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:18 am Post subject:

Running Gentoo-Dev-Source 2.6.11-R5 with the latest ATI drivers from Portage. Works fine on the latest Xorg. Glxgears seems to have improved by about a 100 fps?

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jajirov · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject:

I upgraded from 8.10.19 (which was working fine btw) and started getting really serious hangs in NWN, I wasn't using the Option "KernelModuleParm" "agplock=0" parameter before, and I put it in xorg.conf, but that didn't fix it for me. I did restart X every time and checked the output of fglrxinfo after every change. If the performance gains are not as big as the reports seem to indicate at the moment it seems I'll be skipping this one (at least until this is resolved as NWN is the only linux game I'm playing atm).

Better luck to all of you.

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Mad_Dude · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject:

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Any word on support for xcomposite?
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daelic · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 1

I was able to emerge the new drivers with an overlay, and fglx loaded as expected, I just couldn't get it to enable acceleration, and mesa kept taking over.

Jicksta · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 19 Location: America

When upgrading, was anyone able to use their old xorg.conf file and not have to go through fglrxconfig again?

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jdgill0 · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:04 am Post subject:

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