ATI Users (R300) Help Please

dleifelohcs · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 160 Location: UNH

Brand new Gentoo install here. Finally got X at least FUNCTIONAL. Now, how did you tweak your settings for the best performance?

(asking since there seems to be tons of help for NVidia users in the guides but NONE for ATI...)

I just ran glxgears:

bash-2.05b# ./glxgears
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
339 frames in 6.0 seconds = 56.500 FPS
240 frames in 5.0 seconds = 48.000 FPS

Not what I'd expect of a Radeon 9700! So, what did I do wrong? What do you want to see? What did YOU do?

dleifelohcs · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 160 Location: UNH

running xf86cfg shows I'm trying to load driver "radeon" although it doesn't exist in the list. nor does any sort of ati card in the card model dropdown/filter search. any suggestions??

soccerplayer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 102

emerge ati-drivers and then restart once that is done...upon restarting, log in and run the command: fglrxconfig
go through the configuration stuff and if you dont know what to do just choose there default settings...you are all done...just startx. by the way, if you are using an nforce2 mobo make sure to patch the kernel with the nvidia agpgart

Luud · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:12 am Post subject:

There is lots of information in these forums.

Look here

ATI radeon Sticky

dualhead with XFree86 4.3.0 and a Radeon 9700 pro

You might want to search on "ati", "radeon", "radeon 9700", a.o. to find more information.

And visit ati linux drivers petition. :wink:

Good luck,
Luud
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