HOWTO: ATI FGLRX 3D Acceleration

[mdr]

many thx for the how-to - finally got this working (though cannot change screen resolution in gnome yet though)

however - trivial point - you need to run the 386 kernel.
running the 686 kernel leads to mucho hair loss and gnashing of teeth.......well it has for me.

Moral of the story - do not try to be a smarty and upgrade to the 686 kernel first and hope fglrx will work too!!

[Jae686]

and Radeon MOBILE support?

[wallijonn]

cannot change screen resolution in gnome yet

however - trivial point - you need to run the 386 kernel.
running the 686 kernel leads to mucho hair loss and gnashing of teeth.......well it has for me.

Once you create a fglrx XF86Config-4 file the Computer -> System Configuration -> Screen Resolution will no longer work; you will have to generate another XF86Config-4 file via fglrx.

You'll have to install the "correct" 686 kernel to be able to use DRI / fglrx (mentioned elsewhere).

[mattyh]

According to ATI's web site, they don't provide 3d drivers for their mobile solutions. At least the information I found pointed to that. Now, I used to have a Rage Mobility in my old laptop, and if I remember right GATOS (http://gatos.sourceforge.net) had some 3d accleration drivers for that chipset. You might want to check that site to see, but I doubt it will be too helpful.

[linny129]

I ran this howto and when I run tuxracer I notice that it runs faster than before, but there are a bunch of random polygons everywhere. I get the same problem with tuxkart. How do I fix that?

Output of various commands:

lsmod | grep fglrx
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fglrx 215044 7

dmesg | grep fglrx
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fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 432 MBytes.
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.12.0 [Jul 16 2004] on minor 0
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 432 MBytes.
[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f00421b (hardware caps of chipset)
[fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f004312 (selected caps)
[fglrx] free AGP = 54800384
[fglrx] max AGP = 54800384
[fglrx] free LFB = 116391936
[fglrx] max LFB = 116391936
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total AGP = 16384

fglrxinfo
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display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 Pro Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4510 (X4.3.0-3.12.0)

My fgl_glxgears command works fine and I get over 500 FPS

Same problem - anyone have a solution?????

[lagartija]

Same problem - anyone have a solution?????

same problem for me with tuxracer
i've solved it upgrading to the last version of the ati drivers following this thread

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...&highlight=ati

hope it helps

[humina]

the posted deb source file works great. Thanks for the post.

[Murmex]

and Radeon MOBILE support?

Oy, oy, I've just started using Ubuntu and this is my first Linux distribution ^^

Anyway about ATI Mobility GPU, ATI released a few time ago some driver for them. I don't really know how it works, but you can find them in Linux -> FireGL -> Mobility FireGL T2 or 9000 (I personnally have a Mobility FireGL 9000 GPU)

About random polygons, there's a note on the ATI website about Doom 3 :
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4688.html

As lagartija said, you have to install the latest Drivers.

Me I'm gonna try for the third time to install those drivers. My prob is as I knw nearly nothing about Linux in general, I don't really know how to fix Ubuntu when I can't use it anymore with the Gnome interface (I feel a bit lost like that...) but I'm gonna try again ^^

Edit : Oy yeah, does that make a problem that ATI drivers are develloped for Kernel 2.4 as if I'm not wrong Ubuntu Kernel is the 2.6?

[orestis82]

Is there any information about enabling 3d support on older ATI cards like Radeon 9200 ? I've read that they don't need fglrx as there is built-in support using the ati driver, however, 3d support is not turned on, I have the Mesa system handling openGL.

[robtotheb]

Ive followed this HOWTO and its not worked

I wrote this in the 'XF86Config-4'

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9700 Pro (R300 ND)"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
XF86Config-4


I get this out with 'fglrxinfo'

Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4


Any ideas what went wrong?