Re: Is there a command to set Anisotropic setting in Linux with an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (AIW)?

From: Chuck Roast (msmouse_at_kittymail.com)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: 26 Oct 2003 18:26:28 -0800

ANTant@zimage.com wrote in message news:<7CednT9Qm5uVvwuiU-KYhA@mminternet.net>...
> > > > > > > > Does it exist? I cannot seem to find any documents like NVIDIA's
> > > > > > > > documents for its NVIDIA cards.
>
> > > > > > > google
>
> > > > > > > "linux radeon anisotropic"
>
> > > > > > I actually did and found nothing. Can you please kindly find me the
> > > > > > exact location(s)? :(
> > > > >
> > > > > Bumped! Any ideas, guys? :)
>
> > > > I got some when I changed "radeon" to "nvidia".
> > >
> > > I had a GF4 Ti4200 before I got ATI. ATI Radeon 9800 works great under
> > > Linux. I just need to tweak it, get TV tuner working, etc. :P
>
>
> > How in the world did you get the ATI Radeon 9800 to work with Linux? I
> > went and got the ATI drivers and installed them per the instructions
> > but when I fire up X I get fglrx errors. No matching device section
> > for Device 1:0:1 (sometimes 1:0:0) when I fiddle with things.
> > Did you get the TV working yet?
>
> > Hope to hear from you. thanks.
>
> It wasn't easy, but I managed to get it to work. I basically had a
> compile Kernel 2.4.20 from its source and had to do some tweakings.
> You can see this thread:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=9b815a10d4995159&seekm=n_KdnZs3qogSku2iXTWJlg%40mminternet.net&frame=off
>
> I have not tried the TV stuff yet. I will do that later on. I just wanted
> to get the card to work for X and games.
Thanks for your reply.

Here's what I have done so far.

Went in and did the ./make.sh inside the build_module and it, as you said,
complained about tainting kernels. Went in and did it anyway.

After building the module and installing it I built a new kernel, based
off of 4GB-Athlon (2.4.20) and now I only get the following inside the
XFree86.0.log:
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1)
found
(--) Chipset ATI R350 NH (R9800) found
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
...
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xf8959000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xf8959000 to 0x401ae000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xe0000000

         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENODEV"
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP

My hardware is:
Opteron 246
ASUS SK8N mobo (kernel has been patched with the proper .diffs and drivers
installed)
ATI AIW 9800 Pro
 Display Driver 3.02.08
 Mesa GLX Indirect
 Open GL Version 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4

OS: SuSE 8.2
  (I noticed that 9.0 supports it but I can't figure how to ftp 9.0 yet.)
XFree86 Version 4.3.0
  Release Date: 27 February 2003
  X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
  Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE
  Build Date: 11 September 2003

XFree86Config-4 has the usual setup by the fgl config (I didn't tweak it)

Part of the device section:
   Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
    Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
    Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"
    Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
    BusID "PCI:1:0:0" # vendor=1002, device=4e48
Section "Device"
    Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 1"
    Driver "fglrx"
    BusID "PCI:1:0:1" # vendor=1002, device=4e48
    Screen 1
EndSection

lspci displays:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350
[Radeon 9800]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800]
(Secondary)

01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4e48
01:00.1 Class 0380: 1002:4e68

I'm just trying to get it for games too.

When I run fgl_glxgears, as a normal user, I get Error: couldn't get
fbconfig or when I go to run UT2003 I get an unable to fetch GLX display
or something to that effect and the program drops out.

If I run glxgears no warings or anything and I'm getting around 432 fps.

I tried gatos but still ran in to the same problem. No ID for 1:0:1 :(

Any hints on where to go next?

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