Re: ATI Radeon driver + Linux2.6?

From: Roberto Sanchez (rcsanchez97_at_yahoo.es)
Date: 01/06/04

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    Rob Sims wrote:
    > On Monday 05 January 2004 05:30 pm, Björn Johansson wrote:
    >
    >>I've recently installed a 2.6.0 kernel, and I have a problem
    >>with the graphics in X. The problem is that I can't succesfully
    >>recompile the fglrx driver, so the system uses MESA instead
    >>of the graphic libraries provided by the official ATI package.
    >>
    >>Is it possible to use the Ati FireGL drivers with 2.6?
    >
    >
    > Check for instructions (and a patch) on www.rage3d.com, in the Linux
    > forum. I got 3.2.8 to compile with those instructions. Initially, I
    > had errors when starting kdm (and many other apps) that caused X to
    > exit; the logs showed entries like "Can't register
    > SecondaryColorxxxEXT." Fixed by removing /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so,
    > which was not provided by the ATI drivers; libGL.so.1 was.
    >
    > Also, you must be actively running the desired kernel to compile the
    > module using ATI's script. Run the installation from a text-mode
    > window with the modules radeon and radeonfb not loaded.
    > --
    > Rob
    >
    >

    The ATI 3.7.0 driver works out of the box. The open source
    DRI drivers also work great.

    -Roberto 

    


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