HOW TO: ATI Divers v0.2

[DCBA25]

Thanks for this guide, the "other one" crashed my screen...
This one works with the regular kernel in no time!

Now i've only got one question. How do i configure my TV settings? I wanted to make it like the windows version of the drivers that opened TV to full screen size whenever theres some video running.

I've downloaded fglrx-control but how can i use it?

[Riggs]

Awesome tutorial. This worked wonders on my desktop Now onto my laptop to do the config for nvidia

[Edit] Let me take that back. I still cannot change resolutions on the fly now...gives me an error saying:

The X server does not support the XRandR extention. Runtime resolution changes to the display size are not available.

[udha]

Thanks for the info, agt-get tells me I've allready got the latest fglrx module, and I do, but that's not really my problem.

glxgears works, gets about 3000fps
fgl_glxgears get's about 600 fps

so GL is working at some level, but it's a very low-quality level, I also have dual boot with redhat FC 3 which I didn't like very much, but I did install the rpm successfully for my Radeon 9800 Pro and then installed doom3, and it was good
when I boot into ubuntu I notice it's very low texture quality, very blurry, and the brightness slider of doom3 (in game) has no effect, even after a restart of the game. under FC3 the slider has an affect in real-time.

any suggestions? does anybody else out there have doom 3 installed under ubuntu 5.04 who can or can't use the brightness slider?

[uggeli]

Thanks for the how-to.

First time when I tried this, I got my xorg.conf messed up, but well it was easy to copy backupfile ower it.. Well anyway I was thinking that manually editing isn't my way to go yet, so I decided to follow steps in here. Well I got tv-out working but no 3d, and xorg.conf was messy to read after fglrxconf (atleast in my opinion). Well then I was thinking that what the heck I will try it manualy like you are telling us to do in here.

Well that's for the history, now I have managed to get working xorg.conf file, but when I try to type 'fglrxinfo' to the terminal I got this out:


display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)

so there's no ATI in there..(I got ATI 9600 btw)


And when I try (have done this at begin but now trying again cause there is mesa not ati) that 'sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-k7 xorg-driver-fglrx' it tolds me that I have newest version installed.

So could you told me what could go wrong? Should I remove all ati stuff and try install again or what? And sorry for stupid questions.

[udha]

uggeli,

it may still be using ati in the xorg.conf; open that file and search for fglrx and output the full line for every match you get.

[nickx]

wonderfull!!! This works great! : )

[tora201]

Brilliant stuff. This is the only ATI configuration I have ever got going.
I reckon the guide should be put somewhere more prominent....


Cheers mate! My ubuntu is now complete.

Zane Ritchie

[remmelt]

I think I did the ATi config before, the one you warn against. It used to work fine, but fglrxinfo would return the regular MESA drivers, so I'm guessing I didn't have the fglrx drivers configged right...

The only thing I needed to change in my xorg.conf (yes, AFTER making a backup) was this:

Section "Module"
...
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection

Load "GLcore"
...
EndSection

The omit option was there, but commented out, I added the GLcore load myself. That was all. Now fgl_glxgears starts up (wouldn't before) and reports about 300 FPS, glxgears reports about 3-4 times more than on the MESA drivers (around 1100) and fglrxinfo tells me this:

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)

So I'm happy!

Thanks for the help!

[uggeli]

uggeli,

it may still be using ati in the xorg.conf; open that file and search for fglrx and output the full line for every match you get.

I'm not sure did you meant thaat I shoud but here everyline where is fglrx or what. Well here it goesanyways:

Driver "fglrx"

Well that was it..

Will check that xorg.conf again which was for example in start of thread

[Skaman]

worked great thnx u all