Linux + Ati

[Sukh]

I have XP at the moment, and am tempted by Linux, more specifically Gutsy, and was just stuck on the drivers for x1800xt as ATI do not seem to want to support linux in the same way NV do.

Is there a way to get 1680 X 1050 to work on my dell2007wfp or am I stuck?

 

[SiriusB]

Ubuntu should support your X1800XT with its restricted driver manager.

I run 1680x1050 on my Dell 2007WFP with my X1900XT with no problems.

 

[Rebelius]

worked fine on my machine - Ubuntu, X1800XT, dual monitors with 1680x1050, 1280x1024. That was on Dapper and Edgy.

Works fine on Debian etch, lenny and the current sid.

 

[FirebarUK]

Sorry to hijack, but I've just installed the Catalyst 7.11's on Red Hat 5 and I get really jerky performance when moving windows about and scrolling through lists etc. Anyone know why?

 

[SiriusB]

Something similar happened to me in Ubuntu Edgy when using some drivers for my card. I had to fiddle with the xorg.conf file to sort it. Unfortunately I cannot remember the tweaks.

Have you checked out the SuSe forums/help docs?

 

[.walls]

Something similar happened to me in Ubuntu Edgy when using some drivers for my card. I had to fiddle with the xorg.conf file to sort it. Unfortunately I cannot remember the tweaks.

Have you checked out the SuSe forums/help docs?

Yeah - it's usually poor configuration of xorg.conf at fault.

I find that www.google.co.uk is a good place to start

 

[LizardKing]

Sorry to hijack, but I've just installed the Catalyst 7.11's on Red Hat 5 and I get really jerky performance when moving windows about and scrolling through lists etc. Anyone know why?

In xorg.conf maybe worth checking the fglrx drivers are actually being used and composite is disabled as that is still quite buggy.
whats your output from glxinfo ?

 

[Grimbough]

There's probably a section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (that's where it is on ubuntu) that looks like the following:

	SubSection "Display"
		Depth 24
		Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection

You can try adding "1680x1050" to the Modes line and then trying to set the display resolution.

If you want to check which driver is being used you can look for a section like

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS
        Driver          "intel"
        BusID           "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Your driver will probably be one of either "vesa", "ati" or "fglrx".

Ati support for Linux is pretty poor. The fglrx driver goes someway to improving it, but it's far from perfect. I've found it unusable with my X800 as it makes the fan spin at 100% even when idling in the desktop, so I've just abandoned any fancy graphics for now.

 

[FirebarUK]

the fglrx driver is loaded and running. My xorg.conf looks a little like this;

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

That was configured using the aticonfig utility.

fglrxinfo;

[root@shuttle ~]# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)

^ Doesn't show my device.

glxgears shows very poor performance.

Ultimately AMD's site says the 3850/3870 aren't supported, but the community seem to think they are ??

Might just have to wait

 

[Tumbletop]

It doesn't look like your ATI installation suceeded. IIRC the installer gives a rather poor indication that it failed - check the log file which should be located in /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log. You may need to hack a few things to get it to work properly.

 

[LizardKing]

the fglrx driver is loaded and running. My xorg.conf looks a little like this;



That was configured using the aticonfig utility.

fglrxinfo;



^ Doesn't show my device.

glxgears shows very poor performance.

Ultimately AMD's site says the 3850/3870 aren't supported, but the community seem to think they are ??

Might just have to wait

glxinfo is showing its using the mesa drivers, the fglrx drivers probably failed to load, is there any EE in the xorg log file?
It took ATi a long time to implement decent x19xx support so it will probably be a long wait for HD3xxx support. Though you may get lucky.
The best place to get advice would be here
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19

 

[FirebarUK]

Have the following in the log file..

drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"

Everything else seems to go smoothly until that point.

Followed by;

(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

 

[Grimbough]

I've seen the following suggested as a solution:

sudo rmmod fglrx
cd /lib/modules/*/misc
sudo insmod fglrx.ko
modprobe fglrx

where * is the kernel you're using (for me thats "2.6.22-14-generic"). Then try fglrxinfo again.

 

[FirebarUK]

No luck, just going to give up.