ATI Radeon fglrx driver (hoary)

[ulrich steffens]

or run 'fglrxconfig' after installing xorg-fglrx-driver.
its the ati configtool and produces a not that bad config-file for you.
unfortunately the tool writes an 'XF86Config-4'-file instead of
'xorg.conf'. so you have to copy or symlink to xorg.conf this file after
configuring.

hth
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- ulrich
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On So, 2005-01-30 at 15:57 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I recently installed a Radeon 9200SE video card and initially set it up 
> using the "ati" driver in xserver-xorg.  The performance seemed quite 
> good, but I figured that I could get some improvement using the fglrx 
> binary driver.
> 
> I then install the xorg-driver-fglrx package (per the instructions on
> the wiki--substituting xorg for xfree86 where appropriate) but when gdm 
> starts, the screen blanks and nothing happens.  
> 
> The logfile has some interesting information:
> 
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
> (II) fglrx(0): driver needs XFree86 version: 4.3.x
> (WW) fglrx(0): could not detect XFree86 version (query_status=-3)
> 
> Could it be that fglrx is not compatible with xorg?
> 
> I tried running X using the fglrx driver without the fglrx kernel module
> and I did get a display, however there was no acceleration and the
> performance was quite poor compared to the ati driver.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Bob