I just installed these drivers and the result is quite bad actually.
First what I didn't like is that at X starting the driver make the screen tube
light flashing once. Windows also do that at its startup so I finally think it
is necessary for 3D accel configuration.

the really bad thing is that i haven't noticed any 3D accel. Google earth
crashes (actually it hangs loading the CPU at 100%)
when I an open GL 3D screen the thing is same as before.
The other thing is that I noticed all fonts changed; this is off course tunable
later so i don't mind.

I'm finally using the traditionnal open src radeon driver.

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heavytull <heavytull@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed these drivers and the result is quite bad actually.
....

> I'm finally using the traditionnal open src radeon driver.

Been there, done that. A few years ago I installed the binary drivers from
ATI to use my Radeon 9200 card. It was hard to make a working
configuration using those drivers and once it seemed to be working it
wasn't stable.

I'm still using the opensource drivers in X.org 6.8.0 which I installed on
my Slackware 9.1 installation. I have seen no reason to look back at the
binary drivers. The binary drivers were not only less stable with my 9200,
they were also slower. However, when I say that they were slower I am
comparing 24 bit color depth on the binary drivers with 16 bit color depth
on the opensource drivers. If I remember right I wasn't able to configure
16 bit color depth with the binary drivers.

I can't say if my experiences still are valid for you. The binary drivers
might have improved since then, but your experience indicates that they
haven't improved much. Also the opensource radeon drivers usable for my
9200 card was written from specifications which ATI provided. The
opensource r300 drivers for your x300 was written by reverse-engineering,
so those opensource drivers might not be as stable and/or full-featured.

regards Henrik
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Le vendredi 9 février 2007 21:31, heavytull s'est exprimé de la sorte sur
alt.os.linux.slackware :

> I just installed these drivers and the result is quite bad actually.
> First what I didn't like is that at X starting the driver make the screen
> tube light flashing once. Windows also do that at its startup so I finally
> think it is necessary for 3D accel configuration.
>

To install the ATI binary driver proceed as it follows :
- Exit X
- Log with the root user (not sudo or su but real root)
- Execute ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run
- Just hit Enter key several times to keep default settings (no need to
launch web browser at the end)

<Optionnal (but it makes you sure everything is ok with the module)>
- When installation finished go in /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
- type : ./make.sh to build the module
- then cd.. and type : ./make_install.sh
</Optionnal>

That it !

Just adjust /etc/X11/xorg.conf like this :
- In section "Module" make sure that

Load "glx"
Load "dri"

are present.

- Somewhere in the xorg.conf file, make sure that :

Section "dri"
Mode "0666"
EndSection

is present.

At least replace the driver's name ("radeon" i guess) of your graphic board
by "fglrx".

Save your xorg.conf and start X.

glxinfo should tell you if you have DRI activated, if not please post the
result of :
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo

Sorry for my poor english ;-)
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Doug wrote :

> Section "dri"
> Mode "0666"
> EndSection

Make sure you leave out the quote-marks around the number in the Mode
line.
Section "dri"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

How do I test the frame rate, after installing the ATI drivers?

HuMJohn

Thomas Overgaard wrote:

>
> Doug wrote :
>
>> Section "dri"
>> Mode "0666"
>> EndSection
>
> Make sure you leave out the quote-marks around the number in the Mode
> line.
> Section "dri"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection

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HJohnson wrote :

> How do I test the frame rate, after installing the ATI drivers?

Run the command 'glxgears' from a xterm or konsole, this will give you
some spinning gearwheels and the framerate will be printed in the xterm.
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This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

Thanks, Thomas. Just found that out, myself.

Must be my brains are turning to mush (after 2/3 of a century!)

HuMJohn

Thomas Overgaard wrote:

>
> HJohnson wrote :
>
>> How do I test the frame rate, after installing the ATI drivers?
>
> Run the command 'glxgears' from a xterm or konsole, this will give you
> some spinning gearwheels and the framerate will be printed in the xterm.

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HJohnson wrote :

> Must be my brains are turning to mush (after 2/3 of a century!)

That much to early, I've lived half a century and I'm not even close to
be the oldest in this group.
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This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

Thomas wrote:

>> How do I test the frame rate, after installing the ATI drivers?
>
> Run the command 'glxgears' from a xterm or konsole, this will give you
> some spinning gearwheels and the framerate will be printed in the xterm.

To test the 3D frame rate run fgl_glxgears. It's added by the installer.
Also it's a better idea to have the installed update your xorg.conf file.
The file that does it is called fglxrconf, or something like that. It
tells you the filename at the end of the driver install.

My little Radeon Xpress 200 runs a little over 200 fps. Not bad for a
built in cheapo video chip.

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