JohnBoy

yeah, to get mine to work, i had to edit the modprobe.conf file (i think thats it, its been a few days) and add something along the lines of

install fglrx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install fglrx && { /sbin/modprobe nvidia_agp; /bin/true; }

dont quote me there... and thats if youre running nforce2 chipset (assuming you have that running ok if youre >kernel 2.6)

John

well i tried just that, and it still wasnt working... so I did a little digging.

headed over to linuxquestions.org (dont hurt me admins...) :unsure:

and I found a post titled : My ATI 9600 Linux Fix!!!!

the first post got me on my way, and i had to scroll down a bit more and modify my modprob.conf file a bit to force the AGP drivers to work, and it started working.

that was fun... now what is the flgears thing to test it, how fast it runs? forgot that

Ok, so I was running mdk9.2, and me being the newbie, i mauled it. So, I downloaded 10.0 Community and installed it. everything is goin good sense it has the 2.6 kernel with nforce already installed (which is what got me to screw up 9.2)

so I try to install the ATI driver off of their website. I got out of xwindows, ran the command

rpm -Uh --force fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm

in the directory where the rpm file was.

looked like it installed ok, so I ran the fglrxconfig util, and configured what I thought was a working 2d/3d driver for my 9600.

So i load up xwindows, and I try to run a gl screensaver to test it, and it runs extremely slow. like a software rendering, except the textures are smooth like hardware.

what gives? anyone have any input?

thanks for the help!

John

I'm still really new to linux, so I want to install a mandrake version of the 2.6 kernel, instead of the vanilla version, just because i dont want any conflicts to come up after I do it. Ive been working for about two days to get all my hardware working, and all I am missing is mounting my windows RAID array (i dont think i'm the only person who has had this problem.)

I found an experimental driver for my SiI 3112 chip , but the latest driver is designed for 2.6. :sad:

Where can I get a mandrake version of the kernel, or can i use the vanilla version without problem?

that line there, acpi=off noacpi, wont that turn off the advanced power management, or am I getting acpi mixed up with something else.

and the bootloader as in which file?

I got a good idea, anyone know of a good how to or faq that I can look at before i put all these extreme newbie questions all over the boards? :D

So i would need to download the binary RPMs (correct use of words?) and the source rpms, rebuild with the source, then rebuild my drivers & rpm them?

nvidia offers the .src files, but ati does not, they only have the rpms, so just rpm that after i build the 2.6.0 kernel?

sorry I'm so ignorent thus far, i havent gotten a nice linux book yet

I just got mdk linux 9.2 running on my pc. Its a dual boot with WinXP on it as well.

Im what you call a newbie, big time.

anyways, I have seen things talking about how theres the final release of kernel 2.6.0, and im running 2.4.22-10. Would it be a good or a bad idea to try and update to 2.6.0? How would I go about doing this, and would I have to rebuild my ATI video and Nvidia nforce drivers against 2.6.0?

Thanks for the help ahead of time!

John :D