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NuclearFusi0n · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 297

Do any of the ATI drivers support multiple X sessions yet? I'm on 2.9.13 with kernel 2.6 and it still doesn't work.

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Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 10:46 am Post subject:

I tried it with the 3.2.0 drivers and it didn't work.
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Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:27 pm Post subject:

For anyone using 2.9.13-r1 on a 2.6 kernel:

Can you download http://wedge.xwlegacy.net/ati-drivers.tar.bz2, extract it into /usr/local/portage/media-video/ati-drivers as usual (see the new Howto for details if you're unsure), and try version 2.9.13-r2? Most of the warnings during the emerge should be gone, and the module name should be fglrx instead of "1".
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Achilles · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:35 pm Post subject:

Ah, thank you wedge for all of your help! I used your kernel config and it clued me into the problem... it wasnt the mouse driver, but the location (i.e. /dev/mouse). I took out my ps/2 mouse actually and plugged in a usb one and changed the location to /dev/usbmouse and now everything works great!

Getting 6500 fps in glxgears

Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 3:04 pm Post subject:

gralves · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 4:24 pm Post subject:

Hi!

Anyone got any progress using the TV-out? If yes could you post your story so we can include it in the new HOW-TO?

Achilles: Can you sumarize your story with the mouse so we can put it on the troubleshooting section of the FAQ... Video x Mouse conflicts are... creepy

Thanks!
(I'll be working these weekend on the dual-monitor section. I have a dual monitor setting working. If someone has some questions about the issue please post here so we can enrich the HOWTO)

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G-LiTe` · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 147

Everything works in windows. I'm not overclocking. I wouldn't know if it's overheating, doubt it is because I've played in windows for hours straight.
(Sensorchips are not very reliable on this motherboard :B)
I'll try 2.9.13-r2 again, see if it works now.

G-LiTe` · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 147

Well... suprisingly, it loaded up X with 2.9.13-r2. Think it was the dga option which I had enabled before.
On top of that it's 2000 fps faster. I get 6000 fps in glxgears. Could that be FSAA? o_O
I still get the crashes in tuxracer though. Guess it's just the damned chipset. They _seem_ to be working on support though, they said on the kernel mailinglists there was support for SiS 648 AGP... now the question is if they meant the chipset (which in my case is 648) or the agp bridge (if there is a SiS 648 agp bridge at all, mine is a 5591/5592 though)
I hope they work their asses off.

Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 9:02 pm Post subject:

I get crashes in TuxRacer as well with 2.9.13, so it may just be the drivers in that case. The 2.9.x drivers are significantly faster than the 3.2.x drivers at the moment, for almost everyone AFAIK, so that's why you got a big jump in fps. Now you just have to wait and see what happens with the AGP support I guess.
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Mon · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 1:58 am Post subject:

bda · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 6

got ati-drivers-3.2.4-r2 from the ebuild posted here working under linux-2.6.0-test2-mm4. I have a radeon 9700 pro and via kt266a motherboard.

Sadly, the first 3d app I tried to load (armegatron) froze my system :roll:

At any rate, thanks to Wedge_ and everyone else - couldn't have done it without the ebuilds and this thread.

If anyone gets a message like this:

Wedge_ · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 9:44 am Post subject:

bda · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 6

I've done some more testing regarding the mtrr overlap issue (with only vesafb compiled into my kernel). I get the mtrr overlap error whenever I use the framebuffer, even without the mtrr option passed to vesafb (maybe it uses mtrr anyway?). However, fglrx still works, with 3d acceleration. I'm curious if other people have this problem also.

From /var/log/kern.log (or dmesg if you catch it before it's overwritten):

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Achilles · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 5:55 pm Post subject:

freshy98 · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 9:08 pm Post subject:

maybe I'm overlooking something here, but after emerging ati-drivers it says I can use "fglrxconfig", but when I try to execute is it says command not found????
what's going on?
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ivan300 · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 9:28 pm Post subject:

Wedge_ · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 9:35 pm Post subject:

It's probably because the executables such as fglrxconfig, fgl_glxgears etc are installed in /opt/ati/bin, which then has to be added to your path. The file called 09ati in /etc/env.d contains the paths, and these won't get included in your own paths until you logout and login. If you don't want to do that, I think doing "source /etc/profile" should fix it.
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freshy98 · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 9:35 pm Post subject:

hmm, ok..that was one thing I had not thougth of yet :-)

I was thinking to much linux instead of windows

and thanks for the path idea. will try it tomorrow.
my machine won't boot now 'cause I have done something wrong. dunno what yet. it hangs at Loading linux. must have screwed something up when I recompiled the kernel. hmm..will look into it later :-)

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NicholasDWolfwood · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 235

My two words.

SCREW RADEONS!

My Radeon 9000 Pro worked fine in Linux, but in Windows I had a ton of errors and conflicts. I switched it to a Geforce FX 5200 128MB card and now Linux and Windows both work fine.

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

Have any of you got any ati-drivers to work on 2.6.0-test3? I was able to build them (couldn't use emerge though, some strange Permission Denied errors kept popping up, had to compile them myself), loading went fine, but XFree wouldn't start, complained about agpgart, which was also loaded just fine.
Relevant part of XFree86.0.log:

Wedge_ · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject:

They work fine for me. Can you check that you don't have any DRM support in your kernel? If it's there, it'll almost always stop the fglrx driver from working. Also try unmerging xfree-drm if you haven't already.
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fca · Guru Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Netherlands