Hi,
Ross Boylan a écrit :
1) README.Debian says
"Further information can be found at http://www.ati.com/ -- look for
the "Drivers & Software" page and follow links to the Linux drivers."
The URL is semi-obsolete, and trying to follow these instructions led,
after much hunting, to a downloadable driver. It did not lead to
installation instructions. Searching the site produced only the
unhelpful Linux FAQ.
README.Debian is a bit old I guess...
2) README.Debian says "After you have installed the packages, you'll
also need to install a suitable kernel module to enable 3D
acceleration." This sounds as if I can skip this if I don't care
about 3D acceleration. Will the driver work without the 3D module?
The driver works fine without a kernel module, for 2D of course. This is
the big difference with nvidia.
3) How do I need to change xorg.conf (and possibly other things) to
get this to work? Is it supposed to be found and work automatically?
What is the name of the driver?
The driver name is fglrx. You can change your xorg.conf with aticonfig
--initial
4) Both fglrx-glx and fglrx-modules* describe themselves as providing
the display driver. Huh? I'm guessing the former provides the xorg
modules, and the latter provides the kernel modules.
a) If that's true, it would be helpful to clarify it.
That's true
b) fglrx-glx says you need to build from fglrx-source; is using an
appropriate fglrx-module* a substitute for that?
fglrx-module* is fglrx-source built against standard Debian kernel
provided by the Debian kernel team.
c) again, if I don't care about 3D, can I skip the modules?
again, yes
5) Are the -686 modules appropriate for amd64 under Xeon?
If your kernel is linux-image-2.6*-flavour, you need
fglrx-module-flavour. If your flavour is not in Debian, you can build
fglrx-source with module-assistant. And you can't load a 64bits kernel
module with a i386 userland
6) For amd64 do the drivers need to be built or run in some kind of 32
bit compatibility mode? I ask because fglrx-glx-ia32 got pulled in
automatically (along with a bunch of other 32 bit stuff), and also
because of the -486 and -686 package names.
At any rate, it's not working for me yet, even after adding
Driver "ati"
to my xorg.conf device section. I got that idea from
http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo. I discovered it from an ATI
driver download page.
Try Driver "fglrx" or just #aticonfig --initial. See
http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary
Regards,
Bertrand
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