Unofficial ati-drivers-8.24.8.ebuild

olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

Hi all,

I saw that the new ati-drivers were released and add support for the Ati Radeon X1k cards (Though I am a nvidia card owner and a nvidia videocard fan, I tought I'd help the poor ati users on the board

) but that no ebuild is available yet. Thats why I created an unofficial ebuild for the drivers.

Note: that this ebuild is created quickly, and I have been unable to test it yet because I am not at home and do not have access to a linux machine at the moment, so it might not work.

1 Grab the ebuild here: http://www.linux4dummies.org/ati-drivers-8.24.8.ebuild
2 Put the ebuild in: /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers
3 Run: ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/ati-drivers-8.24.8.ebuild digest
4 Allow the unstable drivers to be installed using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS or by editing your package.keywords
[EDIT]
5 Go to ati's website, download the drivers and put them in /usr/portage/distfiles
[/EDIT]
6 Emerge the ati-drivers

mordredP

mordredP · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject:

it does not work, unfortunately..

vincent_bachelier · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 96

just do after load the file, dos2unix on it,

it should work
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mordredP · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject:

thanks, it works now.. but it tries to download the digest from many mirrors without finding it.

olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

vincent_bachelier · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 96

well it's because this package aren't in portage ... so mirror server doesn't have it

you should download x86 and x64 version of drivers, cause ebuild support both

after digest should work

and otherwise, look for PORTAGE_OVERLAY, because after "emerge sync" you will loose your personal ebuild ...

For short, you should indicated in /etc/make.conf the directory of your OVERLAY,
PORTAGE_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage (for example)

after create in this directory x11-drivers/ati-drivers
load ebuild in it,
do dos2unix

load drivers from ati (x86 and x64 version), and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles

then, do ebuild digest of your ebuild

after just do emerge ati-drivers

( you should add ~x86 for ati-drivers in your package.use )

just add:
x11-drivers/ati-drivers

in /etc/portage/package.keywords

have fun
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vincent_bachelier · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 96

they is an error in the ebuild

just correct this:
SRC_URI="x86? ( mirror://gentoo/ati-driver-installer-${PV}-i386.run )
to this
SRC_URI="x86? ( mirror://gentoo/ati-driver-installer-${PV}-x86.run )

wel it should work
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mark_alec · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

Moved from Kernel & Hardware to Unsupported Software.

mordredP · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject:

ok, i installed the drivers and they work well.. I am finally able to use 1280x800.
Just a problem when i run glxgears:

vincent_bachelier · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 96

this version work at great at last version

so when I run with DRM activated, useFASTTLS set to 0, 1 or 2, when I unload X11 the drivers crash

I have the 2.6.15 version of kernel ... no idea ?
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olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

mordredP · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

f0x_ · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 33 Location: Matera

I installed the new ati drivers but...
when i play a video (mplayer -vo xv, not with -vo x11)
i see too many block pixels...it seems like there is no video filter...
i don't know exactly how explain it...
the video quality is really poor (ati x1600)...
anyone with the same problem?

Pitr- · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 18 Location: Sweden

These new drivers seem to compile without trouble but from my experience it seems like they hate kernel 2.6.16, it causes a total freeze on my system. And under kernel 2.6.14 all I get is a white-screen with some garbled black graphics at the mouse-cursor.
Perhaps that's just a conflict with x11 7.0 or something but I've tried every option there is to change with the fglrx-driver.

I'm running xorg-x11 7.0-r1, and unofficial 8.24.8 with iommu-patch and like I said, I've tried with both 2.6.14-r7 and 2.6.16 and none is actually useable but hey, I suppose I deserv this shit for buying this X1900XT-card

Edit: Or perhaps it's because this is a 512MB card although I don't have an SLI-board and from what I've read that problem is only supposed to occur on those.

darkninja · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

Thanks for the ebuild! Unfortunately the kernel module won't load for people who are running the 2.6.16-* kernel without some patches, which means no 3d accel.

Here is an updated ebuild which uses some older driver patches to make it work with 2.6.16, It's running perfectly on my x1400 laptop, though I guess there is a risk of some incompatabilites. It SHOULD work fine :wink:

midsand · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

If anyone has managed to get them working, do they allow the use of the composite X.org extension? I won't mess up with them if they don't include any significant changes (I'm using a Mobility Radeon 9700 (rv350)).

Thanks and regards, Roger.

f0x_ · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 33 Location: Matera

With Composite enabled,
there's no DRI acceleration.

Eventreur · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 6

Hi,
I have a little problem with my Mobility X1400 so I'm posting there to have some help.
Here is the problem :
I'm trying to have the drivers 8.24.8 running on my modular X and when I'm doing startx, X crashs and displays :

stiwi · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:47 am Post subject:

i installed the driver und now i get an error:

(EE) fglrx(0): Chipset 0x71c4 is not recognized

why that? it is an v5200 mobility an it is the same chip like the x1600 mobility.

anyone an idea?

i will install it on my new ibm t60p.

the problem was discused in that mac os on ibm thinkpad forum. you have to add the hardware id of your v5200 in the ati driver. but where is that unter linux? i can not find the position.

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=10956&st=20

Admiral_Trigger_Happy · Guru Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 337 Location: Australia

Running these with the original ebuild posted on the gentoo-sources-2.6.14 with Xgl and Compiz just fine.

I am want to upgrade my kernel, but all the old driver versions didn't seem to like 2.6.15 on my box, has anyone had any success with gentoo-sources past 2.6.15 with this new one?
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tzachar · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 11

kovvu · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 17

I have the same module mismatch problem. I think its due to a change in the latest xorg-server. I had to downgrade to an older version 1.0.2-r3 to get it to work. I believe the new xorg-server tries to ensure the driver is compiled for the specific version of xorg-x11, if not it fails. Older xorg-server versions just go alone happily despite the ati-driver having been compiled for an older version of xorg-x11 (<7.0.0)

tzachar · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 11

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