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I just got my hands on a Compaq V2312US AMD Turion 64 ML-28 (this baby is fast!). It comes with the ATI Radeon® Xpress 200M IGP 128mb graphics adapter. I have always complained about the poor support from ati for linux drivers. The story has changed now because ATI support has made it really simple to install linux drivers.
The installation has been simplified and no longer need to be in telinit 3 because all you need is the terminal. I am using the lastest ati linux drivers 8.19.10 [http://support.ati.com/ics/support/D...deptID=894]ATI Radeon 8500 Series or higher which supports Xpress 200M IGP[/url](right click on link and SAVE AS for download to start). My laptop is 64 bit BUT I decided to install fedora 32bit version to make my life easier
I would like to let people know that there is a distro that comes with all the browser plug-ins included and it is PCLinuxOS which is a great distro for newbies. It has 2 versions one for ATI and Nvidia drivers allready installed.So check it out!!
Installation should be same for laptops and desktops.
1. Download drivers from link provided.
2. Open terminal and become root
3. Run:
Code:
sh ati-driver-installer-8.19.10-i386.run
4. Example of installer lauching in terminal:
Quote:
[root@laptopFC4 imdeemvp]# sh ati-driver-installer-8.16.20-i386.run
Creating directory fglrx-install
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.16.20........................................... .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ......................................
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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
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Detected configuration:
Architecture: i686 (32-bit)
X Server: Xorg 6.8.2
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install
5. Run:
Code:
fglrxconfig
6. Press "enter" and JUST FOLLOW THE PROMPTS WHICH WILL INDACATE YOU WHAT TO DO and you are done. You dont have to edit the xorg.conf ati will do it for you
7. My latest FPS:
Quote:
[imdeemvp@FC4Laptop ~]$ glxgears
3328 frames in 5.0 seconds = 665.600 FPS
9291 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1858.200 FPS
12474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2494.800 FPS
12464 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2492.800 FPS
12863 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2572.600 FPS
12633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2526.600 FPS
12869 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2573.800 FPS
12510 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2502.000 FPS
12778 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2555.600 FPS
12635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2527.000 FPS
12787 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2557.400 FPS
[imdeemvp@FC4Laptop ~]$
Check out my Nvidia how-to.
I am attaching everythin I did in terminal so see attachment.
Well, imdeemvp, you are really lucky, because I did exactly what you did and I'm getting a mere 90fps in glxgears on a Radeon 9600 pro. Tried running tuxracer and it is obviously not accelerated. I don't know what the ati installer did, but it did not enable 3d acceleration, thats for sure. fgl_glxgears won't even run, gives some error message. I'll check it tonight again and post the error I get. Maybe someone here can figure out what is going on. Would love to get my 3d acceleration working. I find it curious that ATI Control applet does nothing at all when I click on it in the menu. Not encouraging...
Well, I would not consider myself lucky but experienced. After using linux for 3 years now I should know better....btw, have you installed the kernel -devel?
I tried that just now. It told me "nothing to do", so I assume kernel-devel is already installed. I installed most packages when I did the install, since I like to be prepared to try various things with Linux. I'm not exactly a newbie either, having run Linux is some flavor since RH 5.1. However I was using a 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 pci card until recently (which I was able to run in 3d accelerated mode, albeit only 16 bit) but recently changed motherboards to one that supports AGP and so upgraded to an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. Would love to get it working, but the ATI installer obviously failed in some way.
Been there, done that. No change. I'm pretty much betting that there is something simple that no one is thinking to mention that has to be done for this to work. I've run in to this lots of times with linux, such as when I tried getting Samba working last year and I got all kinds of people telling me the same basic steps, and everyone left out one thing that was needed to make all the rest work. I can't wait to see what it is this time. Unfortunately I tend to use linux in spurts, and then forget way too much of what I learned last time for me to be real comfortable the next time I start playing around. I have a dual boot system with Win98se since I was fooled once before in trying to go all OS/2. The Radeon 9600 pro works great in Win98 with the latest Catalyst drivers, so I know the hardware is fine. Has to be the ATI linux driver setup that is not working for me.
I also have the Radeon 9600 (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/q.../12105_na.HTML), and I'm running the 32-bit FC4 on a 64-bit box to try and get ATI to work. Previously the installer failed, but this time it completed. The last step it said it ran a probe of the system and couldn't find anything. I've rebooted and thelike. I also have kernel-devel.
When I rebooted, my toolbars were all screwed up and my resolution was higher than I had set it. The only way to get the toolbars back to normal was to do a rm -rf .* and log out, log back in. Weird. Going to Desktop -> System Settings -> Display shows Unknown and Unknown for monitor and video card. I chose both (Dell 1702FP and ATI Radeon 9600), pressed OK, went back in, and they were back to unknown.
Maybe this snippet from the xorg.0.log is relevant?
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.16.20
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: @@UNRELEASED_AND_UNSUPPORTED_DRIVER@@
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Aug 16 2005 00:15:14
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Information: autobuild-rel-r6-8.16.1-driver-lnx-206829
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(--) Chipset RADEON 9600 (RV350 4150) found
lsmod indicates that fglrx is loaded, but I'm not getting dri to work. My monitor is on the VGA-15 socket, not the dvi connector, is that what PCI:1:0:1 is? Do I need to define that device in the xorg.conf file too?
Let it do its thing, then logout, and press ctrl-alt-backspace to restart the xserver. Then log in and you should be all set. You will have to re-run this whenever the update replaces the kernel.
I'm now getting almost 3000fps in glxgears and more than 500fps in fgl_glxgears
OK, I have gotten the ATI drivers loaded, my Xwindows will only come up in 800x600 or lower. ATI is limited in it settings it says, it shows MESA drivers, just like above:
Download the attached ati installation.doc and compare my process to your process and see if that works for you. It also list the card models supported by the installer.
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