ATI Linux Drivers NEW 2.9.06 with XFree 4.3 support

nephi513 · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 21

I read this over at Rage3d fourms here is the link to the orginal message. These drivers have support for 3D with R300 chipsets. That means radeon 9700. finaly new drivers. Been waiting for ever.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=8b35d0fdf654300f22249156b83da9df&threadid=33676977

and here is a link to the new drivers.

http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_download_ati.html

Haven't had time to try them out yet, but will do soon.

-Dave

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

ebuild req posted in bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18769

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Cappy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 98

Got em installed !!

They are still dependant on glibc2.2 though and if you have the 2.3 version you get a slew of unsatisfied dependencies unless you use the --nodeps option when installing the RPM. I have a Giga-Byte Maya II-Radeon 9000 Pro II and they seem a lot buggier than the fglrx-2.51 for X-Free 4.2.0/4.2.1. They run *almost* as fast as the previous version, but I have a lot of graffical weirdness. Large grffical blocks dissapearing where the cursor is, cursor actually leaving "clones" of itself in its path, text and graphics being "erased" in a sense, wher the cursor is, and other misc. artifacting. I've tried using the"SWCursor" option also...but didn't do anything. I'm going to try downgrading my glibc to meet the deps...even though my system is built mostly on *stable* sources already. I's either a C library prob or possibly a QT issue. Have to do a little playing around

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xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

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an ebuild has been added to portage:
emerge sync and enjoy :wink:

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"quick & dirty" ebuild for xfree 4.3.0!!!

download http://www.schneider-digital.de/download/ati/glx1_linux_X4.3.zip && unzip the rpm && put it in /usr/portage/distfiles (when the rpm will be available on ati site this step will not be necessary any more)

create the ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-video/ati-drivers/ati-drivers-2.9.6.ebuild

here is the

Cappy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 98

It worked (although very buggy) when I installed the RPM manually....but bombed out when I used the ebuild script....any ideas ???

Heres the

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

forgot to say to copy /usr/portage/media-video/ati-drivers/files/09ati in /usr/local/portage/media-video/ati-drivers/files

try again

minaural · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 8

getting this error, what am i doing wrong?

nephi513 · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 21

I think this driver is not the finaly production version yet. If it was it would be on the ATI's web site. I don't really think they have an offical release schedule for ther linux drivers as they do their Windows drivers. With windows they have to get the drivers certified with microsoft. While linux it looks like they don't have any really release schedule.

My bet is these are beta drivers that ATI let www.schneider-digital.de because it fixes problems for the FireGl cards and what there customers wanted. Which is another reason why these may not be good for ATI's Gameing cards.

fca · Guru Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Netherlands

However, accelerated drivers for my Radeon 9500 Pro under XFree 4.3 is too cool to pass on. I'm testing these. So far so good, except still 3D acceleration doesn't work, due to crappy Nvidia support for my nforce 2

minaural · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 8

i got them installed thanks to xlyz's ebuild, worked great

the drivers are okay, I like to play games and have a 9500 Pro so the xfree radeon drivers were really sucky. These drivers are giving me some 2d problems, very slow refreshs and scrolling, but the 3d works great. hopefully these are just beta drivers and the final release will fix 2d issues

or maybe it just something i need to reconfigure ??

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

Ulukay · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 143

anyone got DRI working with these drivers???

Phase^ · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 4

Hi.
With the new ATI drivers and XFree 4.3 I've finally got X to work.
Now 2d works fine, but DRI is missing so there is no 3dacceleration, and that is not fun.
Getting around 150fps in glxgears :/

My config (A xf86config generated config, with some edits.):

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

ati drivers works only with

sphex · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 5:36 pm Post subject:

i can't create the ebuild... when i'm trying to make ist by "ebuild --debug ati-drivers-2.9.6.ebuild digest" i get to know that there is a synthax error on line 129: unexpected end of file... i dont know wheres the problem...

sphex · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 6:15 pm Post subject:

hi again!

i got it to work by c&p again in nedit, but still dont know why it didn't work the first time.

now i have the same problem as cappy... i copied the ati09 file also, but it still doesnt work...

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

sphex, there is an "official" ebuild in portage

I suppose it's simpler to just delete the one you put in /usr/local/portage, emerge sync and use the official one

sphex · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 6:48 pm Post subject:

i did this, but it is still the same problem :/ exact the same message like to one cappy posted...

i deleted the ati-driver-2.9.6.ebuild and the file in /files... do i have to do more than this?

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

aequitas · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:23 pm Post subject:

how do i sett the resolution of my secondaire monitor.

I gave it the same rates as the primairy but it just keeps 1024x768
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Phase^ · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 4

Hi again.
Still having som problems, indeed when i switch "DefaultDepth" to 24 there is no shitty erro about not supporting 16 bpp.
Anyway, when i try to start X with the fglrx driver it simply says: this is a third party board as an error.
Then something about DRIInitDisplay() failure.

It surely doesnt like my card :/

Death Valley Pete · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 2:58 am Post subject:

For me the ebuild in the portage tree worked flawlessly. (XFree 4.3-r1) On my Radeon 9000M, I'm getting ~2000 fps! Not too bad, especially since before I installed this I was just going with software rendering (72 fps, no more, no less). The only potential issues I noticed:

I think you probably should unmerge xfree-drm first if you've got it installed.

Do run /opt/ati/bin/fglrxconfig like the ebuild recommends. Backup your old XF86Config just in case.

Right after I did this and rebooted it wanted to go into 640x480 mode with 1600x1200 in a virtual screen (yuck). This was an easy fix; I just deleted every resolution except 1600x1200 (my monitor's native rez.) in XF86Config and rebooted again. Probably that was just a dumb newbie mistake that wouldn't be an issue if I had a desktop computer where I could go Ctrl+Alt+'+' like the instructions recommend.

Xfree-drm never worked right for me (again, I'm an ignorant newbie), but this is perfect for anybody who can handle the prospect of a precomipled driver in a source distribution. :wink:

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Mov · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 4

not having much success here..

i emerged ati-drivers, ran fglrxconfig, had some problems with X stating that it could not find the device (which i fixed by adding "ChipID 0x514c" to XF86Config).. but now when i run glxgears the box is black (ie. no gears), i get the error "ERROR: fglrx - unknown asic class", and i get some crazy fps like ~33500.

armagetron segfaults, and quake-forge is black just like glxgears (though i can hear that it's running).

the fglrx module is loading fine, but it's just not working out. anyone have any ideas?

Punisha69 · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 20 Location: vancouver, BC

Hey guys...I'm a bit of a noob and i'm having some problems doing this, I'm sure there is a couple of you who can help me, i hope!

Ok. Here's what I HAVE:

Radeon 9500 Pro
Gentoo 1.4 RC3
XFree 4.3
KDE

Here's what I've done:

I emereged "rpm" so
Then... #rpm -i --force package.rpm
then i ran ./make.sh (everything went fine)
when I tried to run ./make_install.sh i got an error (i'll type it down below)
then i ran fglrxconfig and went through that and made new XF86Confing-4 file
I tried running X (KDE). The screen flashs black a few times makin it seem like its going to work, then it stays black

i tried #modprobe fglrx and i got the follwoing msg (I get this EXACT thing when i try to run ./make_install.sh)

"Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o will tain the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starneberg, GERMANY
See (blahblahblah. for more info)
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: init_modules: Operation not permitted
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information insyslog orthe output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: insmod fglrx failed"

again, i get that EXACT same thing either trying to "modprobe fglrx" or "./make_install.sh"

some of the msgs i get from "dmesg"
"[fglrx:firegl_stub_register]*ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!

So, thats what happens... any idea guys? I REALLY would love to get this working, cause when i was running the "radeon" drivers that came with the kernel i only got 70FPS in glxgears

thanks in advance

PS. I have also removed radeon_drv.o from its original directory and am also making sure no radeon driver is loaded before i do all that

Mov · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 4

Punisha69: i had the same problem.. building the radeon drm as a module instead of directly into the kernel fixed it.