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theD3viL

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Pacman ati-drivers

Does ati-drivers in pacman support ati radeon 9600pro? Couse its says only for x200 etc. versions?!  :?

Cerebral

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Re: Pacman ati-drivers

It oughta -- I'm using a 9600 ATI card.

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.5461 (X4.3.0-8.19.10)

$ lsmod | grep fgl
fglrx                 260768  14 
agpgart                29900  2 via_agp,fglrx

Make sure you have the archck kernel from community though, as that's what the drivers are compiled for.

theD3viL

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Re: Pacman ati-drivers

Hm...default kernel 0.7.1 install...and then upgraded will be fine right?

Cerebral

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Re: Pacman ati-drivers

Default kernel will not be fine.
For the ati-drivers package in community, you need to be running the kernel26archck kernel package from Community.

$ pacman -Q | grep kernel
kernel26archck 2.6.14.archck4-1

$ pacman -Qi kernel26archck
Name           : kernel26archck
Version        : 2.6.14.archck4-1
Groups         : None
Packager       : Arch Linux (http://www.archlinux.org)
URL            : http://www.kernel.org
License        : None
Architecture   : i686
Size           : 43917116
Build Date     : Thu Nov 10 18:19:14 2005 UTC
Install Date   : Sun Nov 13 17:52:24 2005 UTC
Install Script : Yes
Reason:        : explicitly installed
Provides       : None
Depends On     : module-init-tools 
Required By    : ati-drivers 
Conflicts With : None
Description    : The Linux Kernel 2.6.14 and modules (IDE support) with -archck4
                 patchset

$ uname -r
2.6.14-archck

Of course, since kernel26archck is a dependancy of ati-drivers, it'll install that kernel for you when you try to install the drivers -- but make sure you update your grub or lilo menu to boot the archck kernel.

dtw

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Re: Pacman ati-drivers

Or, you can rebuild the ati drivers by a minor PKGBUILD edit.

Cerebral

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Re: Pacman ati-drivers

Or, you can rebuild the ati drivers by a minor PKGBUILD edit.

Okay, so yeah, you can do that too.   Does the stock kernel have agp built as modules yet?

dtw

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Re: Pacman ati-drivers

Yes