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ATI Control Panel in 3.7.0 drivers (something good!)

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Saturday, January 3rd 2004, 6:32am

ATI Control Panel in 3.7.0 drivers (something good!)

I just emerged the 3.7.0 set of ATI drivers in Gentoo, and I noticed that ATI now has a little control panel applet that's written in QT. Even better is the fact that this was added to my KDE menu automatically (although this could have been gentoo's doing).

Just thought it was cool seeing ATI using QT libraries :D

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Saturday, January 3rd 2004, 8:07am

great to hear that such companies are taking a pro-active approach to desktop linux usage :D
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Saturday, January 3rd 2004, 10:06am

The panel was part of the 3.2.8 driver package too. maybe not in gentoo though...

I've heard some bad things about the 3.7.0 drivers, so bad in fact I wasn't going to install them at all, then I decided WTF might as well try em out myself and I've had no noticable performance loss.

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Saturday, January 3rd 2004, 3:21pm

Since I installed them my graphic card is no longer recognized as "3D capable"... even after reinstalling the old drivers (3.2.8) the problem persisted...
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Saturday, January 3rd 2004, 9:22pm

What sort of card have you got? Which distro? etc?

Does the installer produce any warnings or error messages?

Maybe I can help you sort it out!

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Saturday, January 3rd 2004, 10:28pm

Thanks for the offering!

I've got a Freeliner XP 2500+ Notebook with an ATI Radeon 9600 mobility (M10) inside, which used to work pretty well with the old drivers.

My distro of choice is SuSe 9.0 Pro (and yes, I even tried the driver packages available from ftp.suse.com).

The only "error" message is that "binary driver"(?) could taint the kernel - which shouldn't be of any importance.
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Saturday, January 3rd 2004, 11:59pm

What is the output of "lsmod|grep fglrx" (note: you may need to be the root user)

Is X using the correct module? (ie: Driver = "fglrx" in the Section "Device" region of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4)

Have you run fglrxconfig after installing the new driver?

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Sunday, January 4th 2004, 12:45am

you could also try compiling the driver yourself:

1) run 'sh make.sh' in the /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod directory

2) run 'sh make_install.sh' in the /lib/modules/fglrx/ directory

3) run 'fglrxconfig' to configure the driver.

start X, and open a console, then type glxinfo|grep direct, check the output for 'direct rendering: Yes'

then try glxgears, see what sort of numbers you are getting

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Sunday, January 4th 2004, 12:53am

I once again installed the version from ftp.suse.com and installed the driver the way you pointed out... well, I don't know what to say... it works!
Thanks, man!

glxgears FPS went up from approx. 2000 (with the old drivers) to approx. 2300!

Thanks again. You saved my weekend :)
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Sunday, January 4th 2004, 1:03am

no probs, happy to help!

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Friday, January 9th 2004, 3:15pm

When I was running Suse 8.2 I had to install the provided Suse drivers, then uninstall the kernel RPM and install the ATI released RPM on top of it. The Suse 9 drivers were perfect for me, and actually, installing the ATI drivers made it all go whacky with errors all over the place. Haven't had any issues with the 3.7.0 at all. It's niceeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Friday, January 9th 2004, 5:44pm

Now that it is actually running it runs, and runs, and runs and keeps running without any problems :)
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Friday, January 9th 2004, 6:23pm

My only running issue with Suse and the fglrx drivers is that occasionally Mesa would randomly take over, and I'd need to reboot to get back my 3D acceleration. So far Suse 9 hasn't had this problem except once, but it drives me nuts.