On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 14:38 +0100, Trygve Seljeflot wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 05:10, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:05:02 +0100 > > > > Trygve Seljeflot wrote: > > > System is Mdv 2007.0 PowerPack i586, The driver loaded and 3D/DRI > > > worked OK after upgrade from 2006, but after some time and some > > > system upgrades (kernel & security mostly) it stops working. (no, i > > > don't remember when and what I did exactly) > > > > > > Mainboard is MSI Neo, CPU Amd-64 3200+, Videocard Radeon 9500 AD (AGP) > > > > > > After weeks of fiddling I finnaly removed all of ati/dkms > > > > You could have stopped here. > > > > In 2007.0 the the Radeon 9xxx series card can have 3d hw accel > > using xorg/Mesa driver/drm module. > > > > It is what I use here. > > > Charles > Thanks, will try this, but still wonders why it's so damn difficult to get > the > Ati/fglrx to work.
The newest drivers actually work ok, but the installer has flaws in dealing with xorg.conf edits. Also, if you have used the sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run GUI-style approach instead of generating the RPM's and installing them, then you MUST run the uninstaller script supplied with that method before the RPM installs will work. Correction; before the RPM's are installed. If you have installed the RPM's over the top of the ati-driver-installer GUI install, then you need to remove the RPM's and then run the uninstall script that is installed with the GUI install. After you run the uninstall script, you can then generate the rpm's with the ATI installer for Mandriva (if you haven't already) and put them in manually with rpm. Before you use rpm to install them however, it is important to have a blank functional "vesa" type xorg.conf file waiting, one that has not been previously edited by an ATI install. "Vanilla", in other words. Because the RPM install automatically edits the xorg.conf file, and it doesn't understand it's own editing, so it will hose a previously ATI-edited xorg.conf. LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Off Topic or Political Discussions: http://mandrakeot.mdw1982.com/ http://www.mdw1982.com/mailman/listinfo/mandrakeot "Character is what you do when nobody's looking." - J.C. Watts °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
