ati radeon driver install

Sting14 · 2005-05-12 02:07:29

so i figured i'd try to instal my ati drivers too. of course it didnt work 8)
some info on my comp:

dell 600m with ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 32MB
here is the output of my lshwd

# lshwd
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.|82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (intel-agp)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (unknown)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Controller (uhci_hcd)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Controller (uhci_hcd)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Controller (uhci_hcd)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Enhanced Controller (ehci-hcd)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|82801 Hub Interface to PCI Bridge (hw_random)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.|82801DBM LPC Interface Bridge (unknown)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.|82801DBM IDE Controller (UltraATA/100) (piix)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.|ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller (snd-intel8x0)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp.|82801DB AC (slamr)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI|Radeon Mobility 9000 (M9) Lf (AGP) (radeon)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corp.|BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (b44)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2Micro Inc|OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (yenta_socket)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2Micro Inc|OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (yenta_socket)
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.|PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter (ipw2200)
004:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
003:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
002:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
001:003 USB Human Interface Devices: [/dev/input/mice] (usbhid)
001:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)

here is the output of my lsmod
lsmod
Module Size Used by
arc4 2304 1
ieee80211_crypt_wep 4480 1
ohci_hcd 23048 0
parport_pc 29252 0
parport 38600 1 parport_pc
pcspkr 4044 0
rtc 13260 0
yenta_socket 23560 0
rsrc_nonstatic 11648 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 51488 2 yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
b44 24068 0
mii 5760 1 b44
snd_intel8x0m 19396 0
snd_intel8x0 34624 1
snd_ac97_codec 79352 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 56224 0
snd_mixer_oss 21120 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 98564 5 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 27268 1 snd_pcm
snd 59492 8 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10848 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10244 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
ehci_hcd 36488 0
usbhid 47744 0
uhci_hcd 33424 0
usbcore 125560 5 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,usbhid,uhci_hcd
tsdev 8256 0
joydev 10560 0
evdev 9984 0
ipw2200 153224 0
ieee80211 39108 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 5508 3 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ipw2200,ieee80211

I dont know if this will help it get my problem fixed. I like everyone else am getting this error
modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.11.7-ARCH/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted

I have run this command as my user, as root, as a sudo command, and the same thing everytime. I followed the wiki guide that qwerty wrote to a T and still am having the same problem most ppl are. Please, if you can help do not hesitate to post a reply! if you need any more information, feel free to ask.

Thanks in advance

grail · 2005-05-12 07:34:54

To get this working I had to re-compile the kernel and make agp a module. The relevant part from my kernel .config is:

CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_ALI=m
CONFIG_AGP_ATI=m
CONFIG_AGP_AMD=m
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=m
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL_MCH=m
CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA=m
CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m
CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS=m
CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m
CONFIG_AGP_EFFICEON=m
CONFIG_DRM=m
CONFIG_DRM_TDFX=m
# CONFIG_DRM_GAMMA is not set
CONFIG_DRM_R128=m
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m
CONFIG_DRM_I810=m
CONFIG_DRM_I830=m
CONFIG_DRM_I915=m
CONFIG_DRM_MGA=m
CONFIG_DRM_SIS=m

Hope this helps.

Sting14 · 2005-05-12 12:59:08

Grail, after you make AGP a module, do you have to do anything else different, or is it the exact same as the ATI Radeon & Kernel 2.6 Wiki?

Update: I am now having this problem. Becuase i have to recompile the kernel with CONFIG_AGP=y, when i do makepkg, i have to use makepkg -f to force a new package to be made because one exists already, but i get an error because stuff already exists. This is the errror.

bunzip2: Output file acpi-20050228-2.6.11.diff already exists.
ERROR: Failed to extract acpi-20050228-2.6.11.diff.bz2
Aborting...

Is there a way to force a new acpi-20050228-2.6.11.diff to be created?

Bjørn · 2005-05-12 13:57:31

Have you tried removing the extracted file? :-|

You could also just do "rm -rfv src pkg" cause those directories are temporary.

napoleon · 2005-05-12 16:09:23

napoleon wrote:

I think my FPS is really low. ATM fgl_glxgears gives me 164 FPS and glxgears gives 1664. Why these low values compared to ohers. I have ATI Radeon 9200 with a pentium 4 2.8GHz HT processor.

Can someone with a higher FPS from fgl_glxgears post their xorg.conf file please. thanks.

Bjørn · 2005-05-12 17:56:19

napoleon wrote:

Can someone with a higher FPS from fgl_glxgears post their xorg.conf file please. thanks.

Ok so I have higher FPS on my Radeon 8500, here is my xorg.conf: http://www.lindeijer.nl/~bjorn/xorg.conf

I have vsync enabled now though, to disable set the Capabilities option to all 0 again (see commented out version).

napoleon · 2005-05-12 21:17:18

Bjørn wrote:

napoleon wrote:
Can someone with a higher FPS from fgl_glxgears post their xorg.conf file please. thanks.
Ok so I have higher FPS on my Radeon 8500, here is my xorg.conf: http://www.lindeijer.nl/~bjorn/xorg.conf
I have vsync enabled now though, to disable set the Capabilities option to all 0 again (see commented out version).

I have tried your xorg.conf without success.

Bjørn · 2005-05-12 23:11:38

napoleon wrote:

I have tried your xorg.conf without success. Below is my xorg.conf

I think linking a file would have been better, heh...

Anyway I don't expect my xorg.conf to work for you, I thought you'd simply be looking for any differences that could cause the lower performance.

jnengland77 · 2005-05-12 23:19:25

im getting the following error

Warning: could not find /var/abs/local/ati-drivers-module-kernel26/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/.libfglrx_ip.a.GCC3.cmd for /var/abs/local/ati-drivers-module-kernel26/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/libfglrx_ip.a.GCC3
  LD [M]  /var/abs/local/ati-drivers-module-kernel26/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/fglrx.ko
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.7-ARCH'
install: too few arguments
Try `install --help' for more information.
./PKGBUILD: line 39: /var/abs/local/ati-drivers-module-kernel26/lib/modules/2.6.11.7-ARCH/video/fglrx.ko: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: Build Failed.  Aborting...

qwerty · 2005-05-13 21:41:56

It seems you've miss something at the end of your PKGBUILD...
it should be like that:

    
# Install the kernel module
install -m 644 -D $startdir/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/fglrx.ko 
        $startdir/pkg/lib/modules/$kernel/video/fglrx.ko || return 1
}

jnengland77 · 2005-05-13 23:52:12

su'd to root and fix that problem and then i went to get install the ati-drivers and now i get the following.

./PKGBUILD: line 30: /var/abs/local/ati-drivers/src/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o: Permission denied
==> ERROR: Build Failed.  Aborting...

thanks for your help but i need it one more time. :oops:

Update: Nevermind i fixed it.
Update2: :x :x They didn't work... gave me an error about libGL.so.1.2 so i backed it up with a new name and removed it like in a previous post. Hope that was what i supposed to. Updated and they installed fine. Load the driver and remove the radeon with modprobe -r radeon(hope that's right?) when i type fglrxconfig nothing happens. says bash: command not found. It's in /opt/ati/bin/ but it won't execute.... and lsmod says fglrx is loaded.
Update3: Fixed it myself thanks anyway...

skeeter · 2005-05-19 01:49:36

Qwerty and Mike4711: Took awhile to get back to this but I reinstalled AL and built the kernel and ati module & drivers w/o any problem. glxgears 4818 and fgl_glxgears 909. Thanks for all the help and particularly the PKGBUILDS. Now to install a game!

arooaroo · 2005-05-26 12:13:33

I finally got around to following the ATI radeon wiki last night - great job to those involved. I got my drivers working fine. One point that spooked me at first was that I use grub and use the vga option to set the framebuffer. Of course, with the ATI drivers, you disable framebuffer. So, when I booted with the new kernel, I saw nothing! If I edit out the vga option, it works as normal, although my initial thought was that I had buggered up the kernel.

Is there any way of getting the framebuffer back? I did prefer it.

Sting14 · 2005-05-27 02:38:04

So i had to format cause i messed up somehwere on the install, so this is take #2...
and i have a problem. I am following the Wiki and i get to

3. # Inside the /var/abs/local/ati-drivers-module-kernel26/ directory, run makepkg to build the package, and then pacman -U ati-drivers-module-kernel26-8.12.10-1.pkg.tar.gz

and when i run makepkg it gives me this:

# makepkg
: command not found :
'/PKBUILD: line 21: syntax error near unexpected token '{
'/PKBUILD: line 21: 'build {
(thu ma.....)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
==> Using local copy of fglrx_6_8_0-8.12.10-1.i386.rpm
was not found in the build directory and is not a proper URL.
==> Aborting...

Any ideas anybody?

iom · 2005-05-27 06:23:16

it would be very nice if you could post the contents of line 21. you can try replacing

build {

with

build() {

Sting14 · 2005-05-27 14:05:22

line 21 is:

build() {

qwerty · 2005-05-27 20:19:23

Stng14: can u please post the whole PKGBUILD?

For all the possessor of an ATI RADEON XPRESS200 SERIES new drivers are out, i don't know if they works also with older chipset, i'll try em out on this weekend, anyway, there you are:

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fglrx … 1.i386.rpm - Xorg 6.8
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fglrx … 1.i386.rpm - Xfree

Bjørn · 2005-05-27 22:18:06

Uhm just take the PKGBUILD from the Wiki page. No use posting them here again. You seem to have messed up line 21 while copying/pasting? :-|

http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/At … rnel%202.6

I guess somebody should try the new drivers and if it works, adapt the Wiki page.

qwerty · 2005-05-28 20:57:03

It seems that the new drivers are only for onboard video cards, they're incompatible with everything else... let's wait for another release...

dust · 2005-06-05 01:21:52

Is it better to go through a full kernel recompile, or does it not matter and just popping in the modules enough?

iom · 2005-06-05 08:18:38

hm. if you build new modules it doesn't matter. but if you build modules that were in kernel, hm. i don't know. i would delete all ".o" files for those modules. anyway, you don't compile kernel every day...

ah, by the way: AGP support can be built into kernel, as well as agp chipset (such as AGP_INTEL). it works just fine.

dust · 2005-06-05 20:39:12

Aye, I've done kernel builds in the past, but I'm still pretty ignorant as to what goes with what and how it ties in together. I guess I've been babied with portage from gentoo when it comes to kernels. I would just emerge ck-sources then go down to the ../linux directory for the make dance. Now I need to figure out what portage hid from me when it did nabbed those sources for me and set it up properly so all I had to worry about was the make dance. I liked running ck, very snappy, and need to figure out how to do it manually, then upkeep it manually or with abs.

estrada.oscar · 2005-06-08 15:27:10

Hi, I followed all the instructions in the wiki (recompiled the kernel without FB, and with AGP and DRM as modules, and make the ati packages) but when I try modprobe fglrx, it shows me the following error:

FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.11.10-ARCH/video/fglrx.ko): No such device

I have an Ati Radeon Mobility U1, and Im insertingthe modules as root.

Thanks

NOTE: lsmod shows that I have apgart and ati_agp modules loaded, I dontknow if its important.

qwerty · 2005-06-09 17:21:10

New ati drivers are OUT!!!

Here u have the release notes:

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.14.13.html

Now you can choose between the old install metod and the new installer... i'm gonna try 'em as soon as possible... C YAAAA

qwerty · 2005-06-09 19:12:40

Ok, i've made 'em work on my pc, i've put PKGBUILD and all the other stuff u need to build 'em on the AUR:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ati-d … i-drivers/

(vote for this package!! )

NB: I've put all together in a unique package, so you need to uninstall ati-drivers-module-kernel26 and ati-driver packages before install the new one. LET ME KNOW IF THEY WORKS!!!

(i'm gonna update the wiki as soon as possible)

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