Hi,

First of all: happy new year to everyone in this group. Got myself a
brandnew (well, sort of, at least compared to its predecessor) laptop
computer, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D. Got rid of the installed Windows XP,
scratched away the "Designed for Windows XP" label and glued it on the lid
of my kitchen dustbin, and installed a base Slack 10.2, plus a 2.6.12
kernel tuned to hardware (and yes, Grant, as soon as I can find the time,
I'll check out 2.6.13, 2.6.14 and so on... only I hate updating things only
for the "fun" of it, as long as old versions work OK).

I managed to configure X so far, but I want to use ATI drivers. I googled a
bit for it, and the problem was not _not_ finding information, it was
rather finding too much of it. All ways may lead to Rome, but several
pathways still lead to Saint-Bauzille-de-Putois and elsewhere. I found a
bunch of receipts, none looking like the other.

Q: anyone here has experience with configuring an ATI Radeon card on Slack?
Which solution is the right one?

Cheers,

Niki
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Il Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:11:49 +0100, Niki Kovacs ha scritto:

> Hi,
>
> First of all: happy new year to everyone in this group. Got myself a
> brandnew (well, sort of, at least compared to its predecessor) laptop
> computer, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D. Got rid of the installed Windows XP,
> scratched away the "Designed for Windows XP" label and glued it on the lid
> of my kitchen dustbin, and installed a base Slack 10.2, plus a 2.6.12
> kernel tuned to hardware (and yes, Grant, as soon as I can find the time,
> I'll check out 2.6.13, 2.6.14 and so on... only I hate updating things only
> for the "fun" of it, as long as old versions work OK).
>
> I managed to configure X so far, but I want to use ATI drivers. I googled a
> bit for it, and the problem was not _not_ finding information, it was
> rather finding too much of it. All ways may lead to Rome, but several
> pathways still lead to Saint-Bauzille-de-Putois and elsewhere. I found a
> bunch of receipts, none looking like the other.
>
> Q: anyone here has experience with configuring an ATI Radeon card on Slack?
> Which solution is the right one?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki

prova

Niki Kovacs <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
> Q: anyone here has experience with configuring an ATI Radeon card on Slack?
> Which solution is the right one?

I have experience from configuring Radeon 9000, 9200 and 9250 cards with
Slackware 9.1. It worked best for me after upgrading from XFree86 to X.org
6.8.0. As you probably have a newer version of Slackware I guess that you
already have X.org installed.

The relevant parts of xorg.conf looks like this:

Section "Module"
....
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
Load "dri"
EndSection
....
Section "Device"
Identifier "Powercolor Radeon 9200"
Driver "radeon"
#VideoRam 262144
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
EndSection
....
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

With the settings above I think that also Slackware 10.2 should work out
of the box with a Radeon card up to and including 9250. X.org 6.8 only
supports hardware 3D acceleration with cards up to and including Radeon
9250. The latest 6.9/7.0 should also have experimental support for newer
cards.

However, you mention that you have a laptop. I'm not sure if you then have
a real Radeon 9000 card, maybe it is some kind of mobility radeon? If so,
I don't know how well it is supported. If you don't care about hardware 3D
acceleration my guess is that 2D will work fine with the opensource
drivers. If you want 3D and the opensource drivers doesn't work good
enough you are in trouble. It was some year ago, but when I tried the
binary drivers from ATI they were terrible. It was a PITA to install them
and get a working configuration. Once the configuration was working it was
slower than the opensource drivers with my 9200 card. Also, the binary
drivers gave buggy images when playing ut2004 and could even hang my
machine completely.

regards Henrik
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Niki Kovacs wrote :

> First of all: happy new year to everyone in this group.
>
Well. Happy new year to you too.
<cut>

> Q: anyone here has experience with configuring an ATI Radeon card on Slack?
> Which solution is the right one?

I'm using a ATI Radeon X600 Pro for my dual-head setup but so far with
the default Slackware kernel 2.4.31 and the proprietary driver from ATI.

Note to myself: I really should pull myself together and build that
2.6.* kernel.
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Niki Kovacs wrote:

> scratched away the "Designed for Windows XP" label and glued it on the
> lid of my kitchen dustbin, ...

Holy crap! these labels really _do_ have a purpose!

> Q: anyone here has experience with configuring an ATI Radeon card on
> Slack? Which solution is the right one?

Best luck I've had, with both Radeon "Mobility" (which I imagine is the
graphics controller you must have, in a recent laptop) and Radeon
Express has been to use the framebuffer driver.

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:58:45 +0000 (UTC), Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:

modquote?
"
>Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
>> scratched away the "Designed for Windows XP" label and glued it on the
>> lid of my kitchen dustbin, ...
>
>Holy crap! these labels really _do_ have a purpose!
"
ROFL

Grant.

Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
>
> Best luck I've had, with both Radeon "Mobility" (which I imagine is the
> graphics controller you must have, in a recent laptop) and Radeon
> Express has been to use the framebuffer driver.
>

the ATI binary drivers work fine for my 8500... unless something's
drastically different with the 9600, the wiki article at slackwiki.org
should work

Henrik Carlqvist wrote:

> Niki Kovacs <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
>> Q: anyone here has experience with configuring an ATI Radeon card on
>> Slack? Which solution is the right one?
>
> I have experience from configuring Radeon 9000, 9200 and 9250 cards with
> Slackware 9.1. It worked best for me after upgrading from XFree86 to X.org
> 6.8.0. As you probably have a newer version of Slackware I guess that you
> already have X.org installed.
>
> The relevant parts of xorg.conf looks like this:
>
> Section "Module"
> ...
> # This loads the GLX module
> Load "glx"
> # This loads the DRI module
> Load "dri"
> EndSection
> ...
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Powercolor Radeon 9200"
> Driver "radeon"
> #VideoRam 262144
> # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
> Option "AGPMode" "4"
> Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
> EndSection
> ...
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
> With the settings above I think that also Slackware 10.2 should work out
> of the box with a Radeon card up to and including 9250. X.org 6.8 only
> supports hardware 3D acceleration with cards up to and including Radeon
> 9250. The latest 6.9/7.0 should also have experimental support for newer
> cards.
>
> However, you mention that you have a laptop. I'm not sure if you then have
> a real Radeon 9000 card, maybe it is some kind of mobility radeon? If so,
> I don't know how well it is supported. If you don't care about hardware 3D
> acceleration my guess is that 2D will work fine with the opensource
> drivers. If you want 3D and the opensource drivers doesn't work good
> enough you are in trouble. It was some year ago, but when I tried the
> binary drivers from ATI they were terrible. It was a PITA to install them
> and get a working configuration. Once the configuration was working it was
> slower than the opensource drivers with my 9200 card. Also, the binary
> drivers gave buggy images when playing ut2004 and could even hang my
> machine completely.
>
> regards Henrik
Hi

everything fine, except one thing:

in xorg.conf, Driver "fglrx" -> works!

Thanks,

Niki
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