Success! I have managed to get everything working, and working quite well. The ATI driver will freak-out if you switch display modes or restart the X server while UNDER-clocking, but other than that I have the display drivers working just fine.
The problem was primarily with Slackware 11 running Xorg 6.9. For some reason, the ATI drivers do not want to work with the stock version of Xorg 6.9, nor the "patched" version available from Slackware's ftp servers. I found a pre-built Xorg 7.2 (thank God!) for Slackware 11, and after a few bumps in the road upgrading, the ATI drivers work just fine. There are a couple of "gotchas". First, if you want hardware ATI's kernel module working with 2.6.20 (NOT needed for general office use), then you need to patch the source that the ATI driver package gives you. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_fglrx#fglrx_8.34.8 The second gotcha is that the ATI driver wont install right into an Xorg 7.2 setup. You need to extract the package (hint, call the .bin with --help), and then copy the 7.1 files into your 7.2 install. There are also some files that you can only get from the 6.9 section of the driver package, but they don't provide a lot of extra features. If you snoop around enough in the extracted files, you'll find everything you need. The aticonfig program isn't useful at all for generating an xorg.conf, but it IS USEFUL for underclocking you GPU to save power and reduce heat. Hope this helps! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
