Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 07:27 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 >> > (AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't work with this >> > card, after a small GUI activity, the screen freezes. I've reported >> > this problem in the past. The only workaround I've found was to install >> > the fglrx-driver package, run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and select >> > the fglrx driver instead the ati one. No more video freezes. But now >> > totem doesn't start, I get the message: The Application "totem" has >> > quit unexpectedly. This problem has to do exclusively with the fglrx >> > driver. I experimented with the ati and fglrx drivers in another i386 >> > machine, and totem didn't start with the fglrx driver. It works fine >> > with the ati driver from x.org. >> > >> > regards >> > >> > Marcelo >> > > > Hi Jonathan, > > Thank you for your answer > >> Hi Marcelo, >> I'm running Debian Lenny with an ATI Radeon 9550 card. I'm using the >> fglrx driver and have no problems at all. >> I'm running a 32-bit system but ATI >> supports AMD64 also so you should have no problems. My advice would be to >> remove all your fglrx packages and build them anew based on the >> ATI-driver-installer that you can get on the ATI site. >> Note that ATI gives >> the following message: 32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit >> Linux drivers to install or work. >> You'll also want to get rid of /usr/src/modules/fglrx >> Note that you need to get the 8.28.8 driver-installer since that's the >> last version that supports your card. > > The fglrx-driver package from the debian stable (etch) repository is > built using the 8.28.8 binary version of the fglrx driver from ATI. So, > I don't know if rebuilding anew the package in my etch system makes any > difference at all. Basically, I should do the same thing the debian > maintainer of the fglrx-driver package have done. I am right? <snip> > Regards > > Marcelo > Hi Marcelo, All I can tell you is that I was never able to get 3D acceleration to work using the packages. I believe that the fglrx drivers are kernel-specific so the fglrx module must be rebuilt for the specific kernel you have. In any event, using this method I have a very happy video card and I get 3D acceleration. All I can say is if the package method is not doing it, then try my suggestion and let us know how you make out. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/
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