DIY Street Linux Thread.

[e_lion_1]

gotcha...had that homicidal rage myself a few times. It sure looks like the right libraries are being found (OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc)...maybe the kernel driver (fglrx) isn't being loaded.

 

had a peek at the ubuntu form link you posted. more confused now than before. maybe that culinist guy will show up ... and clear some of the confusion...

 

linux....so many ways to do the same damn thing.

 

anyway, there are some common gotchas for the opengl, regardless of who's it is:

 

Needed Kernel modules:

for AGP:

agpgart

via_agp (or whatever the chipset is)

 

for PCIE and AGP

nvidia or fglrx

both the nvidia and fglrx modules will load without agpgart ones loaded, but there won't be any acceleration either. load the agpgart / via_agp ones first

 

more than one version of the OpenGL libs...

 

hmmm...not sure if that will help you much Angry...maybe post up the dmesg when you get a chance. I have a hunch that the agpgart modules might not be set up quite right.

[Angry_Games]

maybe post up the dmesg when you get a chance.

 

how do I do this?

 

here's the machine:

 

DFI Lanparty NF3 250Gb

Turion Mobile ML-32 1.8Ghz

2x512MB OCZ PC4200EL Plat rev2 (TCCD)

ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB AGP

Hitachi SATA II

Lite-On 52x CD-ROM

Floppy

Skyhakw 520w psu

[seamuso]

Angry, in a terminal:

 

lsmod

 

 

do you see fglrx listed and agpgart?

 

also look at your device section in xorg.conf file (it should be in /etc/X11) verify that the correct ati driver is being loaded and make it use the kernel agpgart, not the ati version:

 

Section "Device"

 

Driver "fglrx" <- angry, you need this

Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" <- angry, you might want to try this

 

EndSection

 

If you make any changes to xorg.conf, you need to restart x, but it might be just as easy to reboot ..

 

What were your scores from glxgears? in the thousands or in the hundreds?

[e_lion_1]

run dmesg from the command line. It'll give all sorts of messages...useful for troubleshooting...

[Guest culinist]

Allright now were gonna see AG get really angry!!!! All I do when installing fglrx in ubuntu is:

 

$ sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

 

After it installs:

 

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

 

This will kill X and dump you to a command line. Here you do:

 

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

 

A file will open and you scroll down to this section:

 

# === ATI device section ===



Section "Device"

Identifier						  "ATI Graphics Adapter"

Driver							  "ati"

 

Change the ati, to fglrx.

 

Ctrl+x to close and "y" to save.

 

Then:

 

sudo modprobe fglrx

 

If no errors:

 

sudo gdm

 

This will bring you back into X, and gnome. Then:

 

scott@black:~$ fglrxinfo

display: :0.0  screen: 0

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.

OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 Pro Generic

OpenGL version string: 1.3.5272 (X4.3.0-8.16.20)

 

If you get something like this then you are good to go. If not then do:

 

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

 

Answer the questions there, and don't forget to choose fglrx for the driver.

 

If you have tried to install them any other way, before you get to far setting anything else up, i would reinstall, update, upgrade and then follow the guide above. That 9800XT ain't different enough from my 9800pro to make a difference i wouldn't think.

 

Good luck bro and I'll be around til the wee hours if you need me.

[Angry_Games]

im on the linux box right now, but it has pissed me off so much that I am VERY %$#@$# PISSED OFF!!!!

 

so

 

i am gonna do a complete re-install with 5.10 Breezy Ubuntu (unless you say otherwise)

 

I'll msg ya on MSN on my main rig in a sec as I have so totally foobar'd this %@@#$#@ linux install that my graphics are totally corrupted i think

 

 

anyway, I am in the freenode.net IRC (#ubuntu channel) if you also want to hang there for a bit (one Ubuntu is re-installed, i aint gonna mess with MSN on it until tomorrow or something)

[Angry_Games]

PS: $^%@#$$@#!$@^ stupid Angry_Games having to get support from his own customers....what a maroon (as Bugs Bunny would say lol)

[Guest culinist]

hehehheeeee:)

[Angry_Games]

luckily culinist is patient and now I'm on the linux box again 5.10 Ubuntu Breezy Badger (how gay is that name?)

 

lets see if mr sharp-knife really knows his linux stuff now lol

[Guest culinist]

I don't kno sheet, heh

[Angry_Games]

ok %@#$$@#$

 

i put the NF4X Infinity together (754 cpu + PCI-E vid card) with a 6600GT

 

and guess what?

 

its even WORSE than stupid ATI crap

 

And now i finally got it to get to the desktop...STILL NO 3D ACCELERATION

 

what a bunch of crap...I think I am done for another 2 years...

[Guest culinist]

pci x = trouble in linux, too new