Opened 19 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#1319 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Add ati customization instructions to xorg/xfree config

Reported by: bdubbs@… Owned by: blfs-book@…
Priority: low Milestone: 6.2.0
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: minor Keywords:
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ati-instructions (4.0 KB ) - added by bdubbs@… 19 years ago.
Instructions from Alexander Patrakov

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by bdubbs@…, 19 years ago

Attachment: ati-instructions added

Instructions from Alexander Patrakov

comment:1 by Randy McMurchy, 19 years ago

Wouldn't this be best as a hint?

I can't see us getting in the business of writing instructions for every piece of hardware that might have external drivers/modules/whatever. There's maintainance, etc. involved with this.

I thought that's what the hints project was for....

comment:2 by flappintoots@…, 19 years ago

Xorg.0.log snippet: (II) fglrx(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "fglrx" driver (II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.0 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0" (II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xf8b7a000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xf8b7a000 to 0xb7d51000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xe8000000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information: (II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx (II) fglrx(0): Version: 8.12.10 (II) fglrx(0): Date: Apr 4 2005 (II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver. (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information: (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE: 2.6.11.7 (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS: no (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel SMP: yes (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE: 0x1000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0xd8100000 (II) fglrx(0): [agp] Mode=0x1f00421b bridge: 0x8086/0x2550 (II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP v1/2 disable mask 0x00000000 (II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP v3 disable mask 0x00000000 (II) fglrx(0): [agp] enabling AGP with mode=0x1f00431a (II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP protocoll is enabled for grafics board. (cmd=0x1f004312) (II) fglrx(0): [agp] grafics chipset has AGP v3.0 (native mode) (II) fglrx(0): [drm] ringbuffer size = 0x00100000 bytes (II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM buffer queue setup: nbufs = 100 bufsize = 28672 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] texture shared area handle = 0xf8d01000 (II) fglrx(0): shared FSAAScale=1 (II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull! (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xe8000000 FBMappedSize: 0x00501000 (II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1024,1281) (II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1024,768) (front color buffer - assumption) (==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled (==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 768) (II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 505 () Option "dpms" () fglrx(0): DPMS enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)

Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles Solid Lines Dashed Lines Offscreen Pixmaps Setting up tile and stipple cache:

24 128x128 slots

(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled (II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x00000001 (II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled () fglrx(0): Video overlay enabled on CRTC1 Looks like it worked right? Wrong! Still no 3D acceleration!!! my glxinfo output: name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions:

GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig

client glx vendor string: ATI client glx version string: 1.3 client glx extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture

GLX extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_multisample

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1) OpenGL extensions:

GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias

glu version: 1.3 glu extensions:

GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

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comment:3 by alexander@…, 19 years ago

Looks like permissions problem. Try adding yourself to the "video" group, assuming that you have the DRI-related section in xorg.conf as described below: Section "DRI"

Mode 0660 Group "video"

EndSection Or just: Section "DRI"

Mode 0666

EndSection

comment:4 by alexander@…, 19 years ago

I missed the dependency upon gcc-3.3.4 (for libstdc++.so.5 only). Sorry.

comment:5 by alexander@…, 19 years ago

ATI released a new version of the driver. It is available in both RPM format and NVIDIA-like installer format. RPM is much smaller. http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run MD5SUM of the RPM: 5187698cee2edf3dee89bc3eee5729c1 fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm The .run file is too big for me to download with my winmodem. They claim compatibility with 2.6.11 kernels. When I test this driver, more information will be added to this wishlist item.

comment:6 by alexander@…, 19 years ago

The new driver actually compiles and sorta works with 2.6.11 kernel. The -smp and -via-amd64 patches still apply. The -pagetable patch isn't needed anymore. The driver still depends on libstdc++.so.5 from gcc-3.3. The control panel application is now included (precompiled) in /usr/X11R6/bin/fireglcontrolpanel. Also the package drops some .desktop files in /opt/kde3 - please move them to the place where your KDE is actually installed. I recommend staying with the old version of the driver because of stability issue: The new driver sometimes locks up when Konqueror displays its URL completion list.

comment:7 by bdubbs@…, 19 years ago

dependson: 1298
Milestone: future6.1

I am going to write a hint for specialized X video drivers and put a link into the book to the hint. This will fix bug 1298 as well.

comment:8 by bdubbs@…, 19 years ago

Milestone: 6.16.2

comment:9 by alexander@…, 18 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Since there are no working proprietary ATI drivers for the new Xorg, and the open-source "radeon" driver in Xorg-7.0.0 together with linux-2.6.16-rc4 and Mesa-6.4.2 gives 3D aceleration on r300-class ATI cards, there is no point in installing fglrx.

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