Re: ATI DRI Config
- From: "rigelstar" <daniellharris@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Aug 2006 20:15:22 -0700
Sorry for the vagueness of my post. I have indeed found an excellent
guide, the one I was using as you stated was not the one to use for
Ubuntu. The guide to use for ATI Raedon cards 8500 and above plus the
X series cards up to X1900 is this:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation_Guide
The instructions are concise so I will post them here for future
reference:
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Method 1: Installing Dapper's Included Driver (8.25.18)
The included fglrx driver supports Radeon 8500+ and the X-series cards
up to X1900.
Unfortunately OpenGL seems to be broken for R200 cards (everything
below Radeon 9500) in this driver version. The Troubleshooting section
describes how to fix this after xorg-driver-fglrx is installed.
[edit]
Installing the driver
Make sure the restricted repository is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list
or this guide will not work!
Help on enabling repositories can be found at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) #Okay if it
is already installed
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
sudo depmod -a
sudo aticonfig --initial
sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
Now Reboot your system:
sudo shutdown -r now
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Hopes this helps someone in the future as the guide helped me.
Dan
John-Paul Stewart wrote:
rigelstar wrote:
Hopefully this is the right group to post this question.[snip]
In order to properly configure DRI to on I have been using this
excellent guide.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Radeon_%26_Kernel_2.6#Configuration
LIBGL_DEGUB did indeed return the above error. The guide says to run
hwdetect --show-agp. This command dosn't work on my system and I can't
seem to find the hwdetect package. Also, I have tried to locate
rc.conf in order to see what modules are loading without success.
The linux distribution is Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
Any help pointing me in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.
First off, why are you following instructions from the Arch Linux site
when you're running Ubuntu? Differences between the two distros are
bound to confuse you (e.g., Ubuntu doesn't seem to have hwdetect or
rc.conf).
You haven't told us anything about your hardware. What graphics card?
Is it AGP or PCI Express? What's the chipset on your motherboard? (Use
'lspci | grep -i agp' to find out, if this is an AGP card you're trying
to configure.)
You also have said anything about the software you're using. Not
everyone here knows off hand what kernel comes with each distro, so what
kernel version are you using? ('uname -a' will show it.) What about
the ATI drivers? Did they come with Ubuntu or did you download them
from ATI?
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