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Originally Posted by edJquarK
Hey! i've just read you have the ATI radeon xpress 200M as well. With the old drivers i got it running too, but with the new version compatible with xorg7 there's no way.
I got it to show that the driver was running and everythig was ok but you can see a screenshot in another post in this thread. A question, if you do
It shows you anything? Because i got a probem with the module not being loaded.
Galvan, a question for you, how can i know if fglrx module is blacklisted from linux-restricted-modules?? and if so, how can i unblacklist it? |
Right, a few things here then. Firstly, I now have perfect(?) 3D accel using my xpress 200M card - which is no small feat believe me.
Secondly, the output you asked for:
Code:
lsmod | grep fglrx
fglrx 471136 7
agpgart 34888 2 fglrx,ati_agp
Thirdly, blacklisting (or not) you need to look at /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common and see if the FGLRX module is blacklisted. I have mine blacklisted and my system works fine.
Now then, for anyone else reading this post....
There are various HOWTOs on the ATI issues and I believe that the xpress 200M card is one of the more problematic ones that ATI produce (certainly with the new 8.25.18 drivers). I got it to work by doing the following...
1. Clean Dapper Install.
2. Upgrade and update everything.
3. Download the 8.24.8 drivers from the ATI website.
4. Build the ubuntu packages from these drivers.
5. Recompile the Kernel.
6. Extract the libGL.so.1.2 driver from the ATI package you downloaded in step 3.
7. Replace the libGL.so.1.2 file in /usr/lib
8. Remove and *mesa* files from /xorg/fglrx and place the libGL.so.1.2 file in that directory also.
9. Configure your xorg.conf file in accordance with previous posts in this thread.
10. Blacklist the fglrx driver as detailed above.
11. Reboot and all should work.
I more or less used these
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide instructions and substituted 8.25.18 for 8.24.8 and it all worked (must use method 2).
Code:
fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON XPRESS 200M Series SW TCL Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5755 (8.24.8)
Code:
fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
1016 frames in 5.0 seconds = 203.200 FPS
2135 frames in 5.0 seconds = 427.000 FPS
2467 frames in 5.0 seconds = 493.400 FPS
1850 frames in 5.0 seconds = 370.000 FPS
2145 frames in 5.0 seconds = 429.000 FPS
3817 frames in 5.0 seconds = 763.400 FPS
3806 frames in 5.0 seconds = 761.200 FPS
3813 frames in 5.0 seconds = 762.600 FPS
3631 frames in 5.0 seconds = 726.200 FPS
Hope that helps someone!
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to all the "fix ATI problem" type posts i this and other threads.
