ProblemS! ati-driver(fglrx)

[Martin Reiche]

jbiscont at info.fundp.ac.be wrote:

> first of all, thanks a lot to help me!
> 
> to answer to your questions:
> 
> "lsmod | grep fglrx" doesn't show anything
> 
> "dmesg | grep fglrx"
> show me this:
> fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg,
> GERMANY' taints kernel.
> [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 198 MBytes.
> [fglrx:firegl_init] *ERROR* Device not found!
> 
> and "fglrxinfo" show me this:
> display: :0.0 screen: 0
> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
> 
> I hope you'll can help me with this data!
> 
> thanks

hi!

maybe that helps:
http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/BinaryDriverHowto
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ATI (fglrx) Graphics Card

Note: requires linux-restricted modules >= 2.6.8.1.1-1

    1.      sudo apt-get install linux-686 if you haven't already.
           * or -k7 or -686-smp or -386... whatever matches your kernel.
    2.      sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver
    3.      echo fglrx | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
           * This command won't have any effect until you reboot. To 
load the kernel module immediately, run sudo depmod -a ; sudo modprobe 
fglrx, but this will only work if you have already rebooted since 
upgrading the kernel. If it doesn't work, perform the next step (below) 
and then reboot.
    4.      Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and change "ati" to "fglrx", 
perhaps with a command like:
           * sudo sed -i -e 's/"ati"/"fglrx"/' /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Note (optional): You might want to install the flgrx-control package, 
which provides a control panel to configure graphics card options such 
as dual-head display (two monitors).
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i think you need to adjust some things for your needs (for example 
kernel-version and so on)
another thing: instead of point 4 i would backup the old XF86config file 
and do sudo fglrxconfig because for me it doesnt work the way point 4 
describes it... i hadn't any 3d-acceleration untill i've done sudo 
fglrxconfig and configured XF86config with it.
i wonder why the wiki don't tells you to kill all X before editing 
XF86config? isn't that necessary?

ok... hope i could help.

martin