LaeMi Qian
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02-06-2007 12:37
Time to take down all my anti-ATI posters  AMD's buyout of ATI seems to have trickled through to their Linux support  I finally managed to get the latest ATI drivers installed on my Debian box (the installer can still be a bit of a pig) and it is a breath of fresh air. The number of SL crashes is WAY down (and the remaining occasional crashes appear to not be directly graphics related for the most part) and the when-not-running-SL crashes are cleared up too as a bonus. Performance seems to be up about 20% on my system as well. I have gone from resenting a likely forced hardware upgrade to thinking an upgrade is not really needed until 2008  Below is the shell script I adapted from something I found on that old 2D-web thingy to get it installed on my Debian box (filename: installthebloodydriver.sh ;-D): # create a directory, rename the .RUN file to "ati-driver" and make it executable in the directory along with this script ./ati-driver --buildpkg Debian/testing dpkg -i fglrx-*.deb m-a prepare,update m-a build,install fglrx You need module-assist et.al. installed, of course. And sudo/root access.
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Drake Bacon
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02-11-2007 19:33
From: LaeMi Qian Time to take down all my anti-ATI posters  AMD's buyout of ATI seems to have trickled through to their Linux support  ... Performance seems to be up about 20% on my system as well. I have gone from resenting a likely forced hardware upgrade to thinking an upgrade is not really needed until 2008  Keep us updated, LaeMi! If AMD is slapping sence into ATI, we're all be happy.
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Anylyn Hax
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Join date: 11 Feb 2007
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what ati driver ?
02-14-2007 07:46
From: LaeMi Qian Time to take down all my anti-ATI posters ;-) AMD's buyout of ATI seems to have trickled through to their Linux support ;-)
I finally managed to get the latest ATI drivers installed on my Debian box (the installer can still be a bit of a pig) and it is a breath of fresh air. The number of SL crashes is WAY down (and the remaining occasional crashes appear to not be directly graphics related for the most part) and the when-not-running-SL crashes are cleared up too as a bonus.
You need module-assist et.al. installed, of course. And sudo/root access. maybe you post your download source and the exact name of the driver
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LaeMi Qian
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Download et. al.
02-15-2007 19:56
The latest driver was downloaded strait from AMD/ATI's driver download site. the bash script I use to compile was found in a Google search and slightly commented as I don't automate to the extreme the origional writer does  -------- # mkdir ati; cd ati # wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.33.06.run# mv ati-driver-installer-8.29.6.run ati-driver # chmod 755 ati-driver ## ^ in otherwords, ## create a directory, rename the .RUN file to "ati-driver" and make it executable in the directory along with this script ./ati-driver --buildpkg Debian/testing dpkg -i fglrx-*.deb m-a prepare,update m-a build,install fglrx -------- This is on a Debian system withe module assistant, and other kernal-module-build stuff installed via apt-get.
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LaeMi Qian
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oh, and
02-15-2007 20:11
while all the hard crashes were largely down to the ATI driver, it turns out my general mouse-freeze-in-X problem was actually a mechanically fatigued usb cable where the cable enters the mouse chassis - fixed by dis-assembling the mouse, cutting the cable 10cm shorter and re-soldering it to the board plug ;-P
Looking forward to another 3 years of mousing before the next snip. I guess in 20-30 years I will run short on USB cable ;-P
(Yes, I'm old-skool: I like a physical wire to my peripherals)
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LaeMi Qian
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and my xorg.conf file
02-24-2007 16:43
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard" InputDevice "Mouse" InputDevice "Pedal" EndSection
Section "Files"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" # FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" # # path to defoma fonts FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection
Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "dbe" SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection Load "extmod" Load "record" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" # foot-pedal from old mouse # Option "ProductID" "0x1205" # Option "Name" "USB Mouse" Identifier "Pedal" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" # Option "Button1" "page_up" # if ONLY it was THIS easy # Option "Button2" "page_down" # Option "Button3" "home" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Gamma 2 Option "DPMS" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "ATI X1300" Driver "fglrx" Option "no_accel" "FALSE" Option "no_dri" "FALSE" Option "mtrr" "OFF" # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr Option "AGPMask" "0x00000003" # force disable 1x and 2x AGP modes Option "VideoOverlay" "OFF" # must be off for OpenGLOverlay to be on Option "OpenGLOverlay" "OFF" # passing the video render thru openGL seems to work fine Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "OFF" Option "FSAAEnable" "FALSE" # may cause serious SL problems when TRUE Option "FSAAScale" "2" Option "FSAADisableGamma" "FALSE" Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "FALSE" Option "UseFastTLS" "2" Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "TRUE" Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "FALSE" # stability issues when TRUE Option "ForceGenericCPU" "FALSE" Option "KernelModuleParm" "agplock=0" # AGP locked user pages: disabled
BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI X1300" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection
Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
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