long awaited ATI DRIVER for XORG 6.8 ARE READY !

[astreyon]

check this out guys !!!!

finally ati release a linux driver for there GPU wich support xorg 6.8
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.8.25.html

drivers are here :
linux drivers
i'll try them as soon as i come home !!!

damn i wish i could use GL mode of e17 with these drivers

*crossing fingers*

astreyon

[gertdesmet]

Great info, thanks. Have a friend with ATI card who is dying to try some games on Linux. We will try this tonight at home also.

[ilja]

title changed (one ! is enough) and moved to news.

[imdeemvp]

This is great news for laptop users since some major distros now use xorg such as fedora, mandrak, slackware.

[Ebichu]

Good news indeed!

[Dewey]

Is Fedora Core 3 running Xorg 6.8 by default if I always update? Because I can't find Xfree86 or XOrg6.8 anywhere on my machine, using the "whereis" and "which" commands.

[Picomp314]

do you think that this driver supports ATI RADEON 340m???
or is it only the specific models that they mention

Dewey: yeah, try the command
rpm -qa | grep -i xorg

[Dewey]

Thanks Picomp, worked like a charm. Gonna test out the drivers now.

And as for the Radeon 340m, can't hurt to try can it? The drivers include support for a few nonlisted cards, and some integrated chips.

[GiLuX]

just installed on fc3 with radeon9500 but no 3d

-uninstalled the mesa package with --nodeps
-installed fglrx rpm
-ran fgrlxconfig
-made a sym link from xorg.conf to XF86config-4
-had to fiddle around with some keyboard settings in XF86config-4
-startx succesfull

fgrlx info says:
------------
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)
------------
is it suppost to say that?

fgl_glxgears doesnt work:
------------
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 142 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 32
Current serial number in output stream: 32
------------

well so far for attempt 1,
will try again tomorrow

[Dewey]

I'm having problems at the moment. When installing the drivers, I ran into this error.

The QT based control panel application did not load in any version.

and this one.

FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, orunknown parameter (see dmesg)

The website says to install QT, for the first error, but there was no newer version. I checked what qt packages I had, and here's what I got.

[dewey@fedora ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i qt
PyQt-devel-3.13-1
qt-designer-3.3.3-8
qt-3.3.3-8
qt-devel-3.3.3-8
PyQt-3.13-1

And for the second error, there are directions here, http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4481.html but I don't seem to have a /usr/src/linux dir.

It should work without the control panel thing, but it's a shame because I'd like to have an easy way to control the GPU. If anyone runs across a workaround, let me know please.

[edit:] Unsuccessfull configurations, I'll try again tomorrow.

[emmi]

Maybe you need the kernel-sourcecode package installed?

[Shadow Skill]

I got the same error but I just forced it and it apparently worked, I am able to log into X and dont notice anything odd the only thing is that my xorg.conf is completely empty.......That is really loosing me.

[astreyon]

xorg.conf empty ?
have you run le fglrxconfig as it is said at the end of the installation of the driver ?

at least for me , i had some strange errors, i'll manage them today,
and i'll let you know if it works or not

astreyon

[PeTzZz]

Originally Posted by GiLuX

just installed on fc3 with radeon9500 but no 3d

I have the same card, but I will wait for the rpm from Livna.
It seems that they are working to get it to function:
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296

[antipov]

Argh, I've got a lot of issues.

1. Driver can't be compiled with 2.6.10 due to kernel PCI interface change -
function pci_find_class() now renamed to pci_get_class(). It's easy to fix
yourself, btw.

2. No (or slow) OpenGL after several runs of OpenGL application.

'dmesg' after module loading is:
...
fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 930 MBytes.
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:04:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:01.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1d.3
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.8.25 [Jan 14 2005] on minor 0
mtrr: base(0xd8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x7ff0000) boundary
[fglrx:firegl_addmap] *ERROR* mtrr allocation failed (-22)
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
[fglrx] free PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] max PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] free LFB = 116322304
[fglrx] max LFB = 116322304
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total PCIe = 16384
...
It's possible to run 'fgl_glxgears' few times. Next, the following messages are appeared in syslog:
...
[fglrx:firegl_rmmap] *ERROR* map 0xf724d990 still in use (map_count=1)
...
[fglrx:firegl_umm_init] *ERROR* UMM area already initialized!
[fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process [xxxx] using kernel context 0

After this, glxgears becomes _very_ slow (~60 fps vs. normal ~2300 fps).
Also, glxgears may fail with the following messages:

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 142 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 32
Current serial number in output stream: 32

Probably the root of evil here is MTRR error. I'm investigating this.

My stuff is: FC3 & vanilla 2.6.10, P4/3.2 GHz, MB Asus P5GD1,
GPU Asus Extreme AX600XT/HTVD.