FGLRX and ATI

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 12:02, Simon Edwards wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 04:35, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> > This is going to be a two part post due to one message being too big.
> >
> > Ok, I've done just about everything I can think of, and whatever I could
>
> find
>
> > on the web and I can't figure out why I cannot get hardware acceleration
> > to work on my ATI Radeon 9100!
> >
> > I have the fglrx modules from dapper, and if anyone can offer some help
> > I'll post versions, etc.  On second thought here they are:
> > xorg-driver-fglrx 6.9.0-8.21.7+2.6.15.5-2
> > xserver-xorg 7.0.0-0ubuntu14
> > xserver-xorg-core 1:1.0.1-0ubuntu5
>
> Your  xorg-driver-fglrx version doesn't match you xserver-xorg version. I
> don't know if that makes a difference.

Me either, but the one will uninstall if I try to change the other.

>
> > I have a an ati driver package that I question:
> > xserver-xorg-driver-ati 1:6.5.7.3-0ubuntu1
>
> The version number there does indeed look odd. (But that is the open source
> driver).

Yea, one of the docs that told how to install the driver from ATI (and not the 
prebuilt Ubuntu packages) said to install this for some reason.

>
> > I do have the linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 package installed (for the
> > madwifi drivers).
> >
> > here is my xorg.conf file:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > 	Identifier  "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9100 U3 (R200 IGP)"
> > 	Driver      "fglrx"
> > 	VideoRam    131027
> > #	Option	    "UseFBDev" "true"
> > 	Option	    "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"
> > 	BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
> > EndSection
>
> Do you have a PCI graphics card or AGP?


AGP


> If so, try replacing those two option lines with:
>
> 	Option "BusType" "PCI"
>
> It should not be neccessary to specify the amount of memory BTW.

I didn't think so, but the deb conf wanted this information because the RAM 
for the video is shared memory.
(I think)
So should the line look like:
Option "BusType" "AGP" 

instead of what's there?

> cheers,


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