fglrx-12.8

bipbip · **Posted:** Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:04 pm

Code:

aticonfig --initial

Add this lines in your xorg.conf :

Code:

Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Code:

Section "ServerFlags"
     Option "AIGLX" "On"
EndSection

Reboot the pc and normaly you can see this result :

Code:

root[bipbip]# fglrxinfo 
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1950 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release

Add in /etc/fstab

Code:

tmpfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0

Blacklist the radeon module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Procedure to upgrade the package :
1°) Modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you have to replace in the drivers section "fglrx" by "vesa"
2°) Restart the pc
3°) In root console, unload the module fglrx : rmmod fglrx
4°) Remove the package ati-fglrx : removepkg /var/log/package/ati-fglrx....tgz
5°) Install the new kernel with netpkg
6°) Install the new driver ati-fglrx
7°) Modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
You have to replace in the drivers section "vesa" by "fglrx"
8°) Restart the pc

All comments are welcome ! ! !

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Bip

hennes · **Posted:** Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:21 pm

hi.

i'm not too sure, but maybe this needs to much of user tweaking to become an official package. maybe it would be better to release this under 'contributed packages'.

bipbip · **Posted:** Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:25 pm

Hi,

Yes indeed. I didn't know where I could put this.
If an admin can move this topic to "contributed packages"

Thanks.

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Bip

BandiPat · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:04 am

This almost sounds too easy to do! $\!D/$

Listening on some other distro mail lists and reading the howto on the ATI site, it sounds like a hit or miss thing and certainly not without some "tweaking" to get things installed & working. I have been staying away from the ATI binary drivers because of all the turmoil when using SuSE, but if this works, I may take a look. Since moving to ZW, I've found many things easier to work with. By the number of 4.8 CDs I've been giving out lately, it would seem I'm getting others excited about it too! l!!!

I'll try it out on my test machine with the 9200 tomorrow and report back on my success or failure. Whatever happens though, thanks for the file and instructions.

figment

karlheinz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:03 pm

Just installed the package without problems and 2d Mode works perfectly.

But I tried running fgl_glxgears and got a "permission denied" message and when running it as root i got this Error:

Quote:

Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest
Major opcode of failed request: 142 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (X_GLXVendorPrivate)
Serial number of failed request: 41
Current serial number in output stream: 42

Anyone got an idea what I am doing wrong?
I'm running ZW 5.0 R1 btw.

godane · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:48 pm

this package is for the current kernel 2.6.22.9. :-[

That may why its not working.

karlheinz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:56 pm

Ok, never thought of that.

Thanks for the reply.

hennes · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:04 pm

As there seems to be much interest in this package, maybe we should make it official. I'll revoke my initial statement on this.

axxium · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:33 pm

Hi,

What if your package posted the tweaks info in a textfile on the root user's desktop. Perhaps some other place? Some place that will grab the admin even if they install it with xnetpkg.

$:-\$

Michael

skywatcher · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:17 pm

hennes wrote:

As there seems to be much interest in this package, maybe we should make it official. I'll revoke my initial statement on this.

I agree, it definitely needs to get to the repo!

Sparky · **Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:23 am

Just a thought here, but couldn't the 'aticonfig --initial' command go in doinst? That would be one small step towards minimal user configuration.

hennes · **Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:54 am

But you will have to check your xorg.conf anyway. If we run aticonfig at install people might forget to check their xorg.conf and end up with their system not booting to X.

godane · **Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:13 pm

i just did a build of fglrx-8.443.1. It builds perfectly now on kernel 2.6.23. I think its best to use this version in older to compile for it to work with zenwalk 5.0.

here is the link the source binary package:
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run

I hope this helps.

hennes · **Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:07 pm

Bip, will you repackage the driver for the current kernel and make an official package?

bipbip · **Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:19 am

I just finished to download zenwalk 5.
I will do that this week end on a fresh install

fglrx-12.8

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