fglrx again

[draetsch]

Am Dienstag, den 28.09.2004, 12:33 -0700 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:05:29PM +0200, draetsch wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, but I don't get it. I installed the fglrx-driver package and the
> > rest that is there. I put the fglrx module in /etc/modules and changed
> > my configuration of xfree and rebooted. No driver loaded and modprobe
> > returns nothing, so I did a search. I found two module files
> > (fglrx_drv.o and fglrx_dri.o) in /usr/X11R6/lib. Are these the drivers
> > and if yes, how can I load them?
> 
> As documented here:
> 
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto
> 
> you must ensure that you have a current version of linux-restricted-modules
> installed, corresponding to your kernel.  If you install the "linux-386" (or
> linux-686, etc.) package, you will receive the latest kernel and associated
> fglrx module.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
> 

Yes, cool that worked. Interesting how I only read the small text :-)

Thank you.