Re: about the linux ATI proprietary drivers writers team
- From: Shadow_7 <wwwShadow7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:26:10 -0000
What graphics card are you using? The last status I know is that the
radeon driver has 3D acceleration for all the cards it supports,
Not well enough in my case.
RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series] (on board)
Module: ATI Radeon 9500 - X850
Flightgear is useless under the new drivers. Mandriva release 2007.1
proprietary driver worked pretty good.
For me ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) and the fglrx driver. Aside from
some MSI quirk thing so PCIe doesn't seem usable. Not that a mention of
MSI can be found in ATI's expanded driver pack. So it probably doesn't
support PCIe anyway. Anyway the radeon driver did not support 3D
acceleration for it as of late 2006. Some odd r300 or r400-ish chipset.
I haven't checked lately, but up until recently my ATI drivers really
fowled things up. And I wasn't able to successfully revert to the radeon
driver. Some details below.
One recent upgrade issue I had with the ATI drivers was that things got
moved around. Some /etc/fglrx... files were overriding the newer
/etc/ati/... files. And some /usr/lib/xorg/... files were overriding the
newer files in other locations. Granted that I used to install via non
distro specific means and had to revert to distro specific means when the
ati installer started failing to run in a non distro specific manner.
i.e. locked up the computer on one of the prompts. Although that might
be because I tried to upgrade to a 64 bit linux on a box which turns out is
NOT fully 64 bit.
I was eventually able to get it working again after about three months of
using the vesa driver at 1024x768 on my 1280x800 LCD. Quite anoying I
might add. But I had to otherwise move/remove a number of files. The
list below. Basically follow the remove old packages methodology before
installing new packages. Because the ATI drivers are NOT self cleaning.
So waiting through a number of new driver releases was not enough to fix
the issue in this case.
The remnants manually removed. Now I still got a cpu race condition if I
ran java applets with sound enabled. Which stopped when I disabled sound
which was designed into the applet(s). i.e. pogo.com even after moving
these files. But I could get 1280x800 again. And DRI again, to a limited
extent.
/etc/fglrxprofiles.csv
/etc/fglrxrc
/usr/lib/xorg/libatixutil.a
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_dm.a
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_dm.so.1.0
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_gamma.a
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_gamma.so.1
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_pp.a
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_tvout.a
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_tvout.so.1
/usr/lib/xorg/libfglrx_tvout.so.1.0
/usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so
/usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so.1.2
Basically these existed in multiple locations. And the ones above had the
oldest date/time stamps. Being 2006 in my case while fixing the issue in
late 2007. Not to imply that they are the only remnants. But I
identified them and removed them, and was able to get the ati drivers
usable again.
In the meantime I have 1.1G's of .debs downloaded for my new install.
With probably a gig or more left to download over dialup. In order to
make my new install (debian/stable) up to par with my old install
(debian/unstable). At least in terms of the number of and the name of
packages installed. Most every game plus every development tool
available. Thank god for shell scripts. Set it and forget it.
I somehow got this list from dpkg-divert. Which helped me identify that I
was using the wrong libGL.so.1.2 file for ATI. Perhaps I should check
some of the others. But I remembered that I had to play with libGL.so.1.2
anyway from my previous attempts to get DRI from the ATI drivers working
about a year earlier when I got this new laptop and set it up.
libatixutil.a
libfglrx_dm.a
libfglrx_dm.so.1.0
libfglrx_gamma.a
libfglrx_gamma.so.1
libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0
libfglrx_pp.a
libfglrx_pp.so.1.0
libfglrx_tvout.a
libfglrx_tvout.so.1
libfglrx_tvout.so.1.0
libGL.so
libGL.so.1
libGL.so.1.2
NOTE: You have to undo any changes to libGL.so.2.1 to get the radeon driver
working again. Needless to say I've adopted a policy of moving files
instead of removing them these days. With a slight modification in file
name to reflect their original paths. And maybe a date/time and a reason
why I moved them. So I have these in my main users home directory.
usr_lib_fglrx_diversions_libGL.so.1.2___FGLRX
usr_lib_libGL.so.1.2____________________MESA
HTH
.
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