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| heavytull 2007-12-16, 1:17 pm |
| It seems the ATI proprietary linux drivers do not work on recent slack. I
tried them since slack 11.0 and never worked, even now on slack12.
I'm using everything by default with the smp kernel, the drivers always
result in an error while loading them at startx. probably i need to black
list some modules.
the eturned error is about this:
fatal error: load failed
my Gcard is an ATI radeon mobility X300
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| Darren Salt 2007-12-16, 1:17 pm |
| I demand that heavytull may or may not have written...
> It seems the ATI proprietary linux drivers do not work on recent slack. I
> tried them since slack 11.0 and never worked, even now on slack12. [...]
> the eturned error is about this:
> fatal error: load failed
> my Gcard is an ATI radeon mobility X300
You don't need the taintware with this.
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| heavytull 2007-12-16, 1:17 pm |
| On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:48:17 +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that heavytull may or may not have written...
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> You don't need the taintware with this.
taintware? meaning?
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| Shadow_7 2007-12-16, 1:17 pm |
| > my Gcard is an ATI radeon mobility X300
They stopped working with an X upgrade in debian about three months ago.
I've managed to get up to date a few times after then, but they still
seem broke. The latest two updates from ati wont run, except for a
distribution specific method(--buildpkg Debian/unstable). With the way I
used to install it, it locks up the computer. In either case they don't
work anymore for me either. Last time I tried the Open Source radeon
driver, it didn't work either. Somethings gone wacky in the kernel/X to
make ATI's driver more worthless than they already were.
My Gcard is the ATI redeon express 200M 5955(pcie).
Not that I care for the DRI bit. But it's really annoying having my
laptop in 1024x768 on a 1280x800 LCD.
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| Anton Ertl 2007-12-16, 1:17 pm |
| heavytull <heavytull@hotmail.com> writes:
>my Gcard is an ATI radeon mobility X300
Congratulations, this card should work fine with the free "radeon"
driver, even in 3D. However, the last time I tried the proprietary
"fglrx" driver, it messed with the system (IIRC installing some
proprietary version of a library in place of the free version) and it
required a bit of work to get the system back to the state where the
free driver would work.
- anton
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| heavytull 2007-12-16, 7:15 pm |
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> The proprietary drivers. (Specifically, proprietary kernel modules, but
> never mind that...)
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ok
> Use the open-source drivers instead.
yeah tha's what i'm doing since the begginnning, but there are many 3D
apps that do not work; for instance try google earth, it is not hard
accelerated at all...
> You may also need to use driconf
what's driconf?
i seem to not having that on my system
> to
> switch on "disable low-impact fallbacks" (there are one or two 3D things
> which aren't accelerated and are *slow* unless you do this).
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| Mark Hobley 2007-12-16, 7:15 pm |
| Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
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> Congratulations, this card should work fine with the free "radeon"
> driver, even in 3D. However, the last time I tried the proprietary
> "fglrx" driver, it messed with the system (IIRC installing some
> proprietary version of a library in place of the free version) and it
> required a bit of work to get the system back to the state where the
> free driver would work.
Have a look at the troubleshooter:
http://markhobley.yi.org:8000/XorgDRTShoot
Regards,
Mark.
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