ATI driver install - SuSE 9.0 answered!!

jdaniel · 02-14-2004, 01:09 PM

Hi. I too am having trouble getting my RadeonXT running under linux. I had to add the line
ChipID 0x4e48

right under
Driver "fglrx"

Now it works.

Thanks for everyone that posted this... especially the ChipID line!

cjcrook · 02-14-2004, 04:19 PM

sirra462,
I cannot for the life of me find "Ismod." What is the secret behind running this?

Sys Info:
Win XP Pro dualboot w, Suse 9.0 Professional (separate HD's)
ATI Raedon 9800 Pro
ASUS Mobo A7N8X
Athalon XP +2100
1 GB Ram

zidane2010 · 02-15-2004, 08:34 AM

hmm.... i have mostly the same setup as you and i had no trouble finding Ismod.

cjcrook · 02-15-2004, 09:08 AM

I keep getting a bad command message. I figure it must be in some package I need to install. Got any ideas as to which package that may be?

cjcrook · 02-15-2004, 01:44 PM

OK, I'm a neener. It's a lowercase L not a captal I.

cjcrook · 02-15-2004, 02:03 PM

OK, next question. I followed all of sirra462's instructions to the letter now. fglrx and agpgart now show up when I run lsmod, but both still have a value of 0. I also ran fglrxinfo and it's still showing the MESA drivers. I tried these instructions from a fresh install.

How can you switch over to the ATI drivers from MESA without having to do another fresh install?

lesaint · 02-15-2004, 10:23 PM

hy all i need help for setting the frame buffer how i do that plzzzzzzz i am stuck at 300
need to set more for playing a game plz need help thx all

zidane2010 · 02-17-2004, 05:36 PM

cjcrook. Are you using the newer drivers or the old drivers? I fell into a somwwhat similar situation, and i re did all of the steps for the newer drivers, exept this time following the offical SuSE readme. try that.

cjcrook · 02-17-2004, 09:39 PM

Right on. I tried the 3.7 drivers as well as the 3.2. I'll Suse's instructions next. You got your's to work?

zidane2010 · 02-20-2004, 07:20 PM

BHWJaF ! Im getting verry irratated. I reinstalled SuSE. Now i run through the enitre thing and have tried both drivers. And it doesnt work! fglrx doesnt even show up in lsmod! im very annoyed now

zidane2010 · 02-20-2004, 07:51 PM

w00t! i ffound out that my kernel was "Off the hook!" now it works

I LOVE MYSELF

cjcrook · 02-21-2004, 09:27 AM

uh, you're going to have to explain that one to me....

.."Off the hook?"

kabniel · 02-21-2004, 01:02 PM

i just got my Radeon 9800 Pro to work with the latest (3.7.0) ATI drivers on my P4P800 Deluxe, running (B)LFS 5.0 with the 2.6.3 kernel

and it only took 5 hours

zidane2010 · 02-21-2004, 01:41 PM

Lol, That Phone is Off the hook!.... Accually, its a cell phone.

nspm · 02-21-2004, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by raphandmon
Cannot get agpgart to load, tried all of the details as above: comes up with the info below when insmod agpgart is run, any ideas?

Using /lib/modules/2.4.21-166-default/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-166-default/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg

fglrx is loading fine, and agpgart tries to load but fails as above when the system is booted. I am a newbie, so this may be something straight forward. The apgart.o file is present as well in the correct folder above.

I'm having the same problem, does anyone know whats happening ? I have an ati9600XT and i still can't get it work on suse 9 kernel 2.4 help plz

tks