Hi Steve
And thank you. I got it!! B) Your link was The most valuable thread ever :D :D
Glxgears is showing about 3500FPS and in fullscreen mode about 340 FPS. And no error messages what so ever. So I can confirm that this works witn Mandrake 9.2
And "apgard" was a typo.
And maybe one of the moderators can create a new sticky considering this matter.
Just add this post to it:
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linuxnoob10k
WOOHOO!!! finally got it to work. Big noob here so i'll state what my main problem was then try to jot down step by step instructions of exactly what i did. My problem was that Mandrake didn't install the kernel source by default, so when i was forcing the driver rpm install it was looking for stuff that didn't exist yet.
Using Mandrake 9.1 w/KT400 chipset and Radeon 9500. Just to confirm that it does work, I'm using the 4.3 XFree version driver straight from ATI's website.
1. Opened up Mandrake Control Center, Software Mgmt, RPM Drake, then did search for "kernel". It brought up the kernel source, select it and hit the install button.
2. open up a terminal as root go to directory with rpm driver. install the rpm with the following command. rpm -Uhv <filename>.rpm don't use the <> in the command.
3. go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_modules and edit the agpgart_be.c, search for 8377, a couple lines below you will see the following line...
via_generic_setup}, //AGP v2 change this line to read...
via_kt400_setup}, //AGP v2 save the file.
4. in terminal type cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod and hit enter.
type ./make.sh then type cd .. and press enter. type ./make_install.sh
5. type fglrxconfig go thru the options and pretty much take default choices. (i did change the monitor resolution and refresh rates). when it comes up and asks you if you want to use the external agp use the default option of NO. select YES when prompted to save.
6. restart xserver, or simply reboot.
I did exactly what's stated above and I have 3D acceleration finally. Thanks to ajn131 for tipping me off about getting the source from the rpm on the install cds, and to jpbarto for da rest.
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This actually says it all and is very noobie friendly.
LateQ