lets-eat-gary Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 Hi just started using Mandrake Linux 10 community - it seems really good! A couple of my friends are attempting to install Linux on their computers, one of them (who is pretty technically minded) is having problems getting his ATI Radeon 9600 to work. He is just about to install Mandrake 10 community , but after looking at the release notes with Ati's latest drivers only mentions kernel 2.6 support It is possible to install with Mandy 10 community with full 3d support? Personally i got my Nvidia geforce 3 card up and running with the latest Nvidia driver (which does have 2.6 support) in about 10 mins. Cheers for any advice guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaNaNe Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 I've got exactly the same question... My friend has got a 9600pro and would like to install mdk10.0! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 Ati's latest drivers only mentions kernel 2.6 support Well if thats the case, you should be ok because mdk10 is default kernel 2.6 However, I use a geforce, so don't quote me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 Someone around here got it to work using the Vesa driver, but without hardware accerleration. There are official drvers out for it that may work. Someone is trying to get them to work now. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=12100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 I got a 9800 to work and Brit recently got a 9700 or 9800 or 9600 to work - I forget exactly which... I'm running 2.6 - it is possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 Anyone know if there are specific drivers for the ATI Radeon 7500? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 you have to use the opensource driver i think... 'radeon' in xf86config-4 lingo. AFAIK, the official driver doesn't support those older radeons, not too sure on that though Brit had a 9600 i think I have a 9700 and got mine to work with kernel 2.6. UT rocks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 UT rocks! No Fussy,.... UT rocks! on a geforce 4 ti 4600 overclocked by nice Mr Asus... sorry... meaningless post :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lets-eat-gary Posted March 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 sorry guys i meant that ati only mentions the 2.4 kernel !!!! whoops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randuev Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 I had no problem installing official 3.7 drivers from ATI and now my Radeon9800Pro works. As long as you don't change to consoles with CTRL ALT F1 and back. My display is always messed up when I do that. Funnily, it works fine in Knoppix (hd install). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjlehtim Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 I had no problem installing official 3.7 drivers from ATI and now my Radeon9800Pro works. Can you please help me. Encountered a lot of problems. I'm running MDK 10 CE with Radeon 9800. Downloaded the latest driver RPM from ATI. (version 3.7.6) First problem popped up when installing the RPM. file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6 conflicts with file from package libxfree86-4.3-29mdk I used "--force" to go past that one and got the following error message: Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:fglrx ########################################### [100%] *** Trying to install a precompiled kernel module. *** WARNING *** Tailored kernel module for fglrx not present in your system. You must go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir and execute './make.sh' to build a fully customed kernel module. Afterwards go to /lib/modules/fglrx and run './make_install.sh' in order to install the module into your kernel's module repository. (see readme.txt for more details.) As of now you can still run your XServer in 2D, but hardware acclerated OpenGL will not work and 2D graphics will lack performance. failed. *** Error: no kernel module build environment - please consult readme. Installed: qt3 (gcc 3.2) based control panel application === ATI display drivers successfully installed please run 'fglrxconfig' now === After that I did what the directions told me. runned the "make.sh". That worked fine. After that runned the "make_install.sh" as itructed and got almost the same error message *** WARNING *** Tailored kernel module for fglrx not present in your system. You must go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir and execute './make.sh' to build a fully customed kernel module. Afterwards go to /lib/modules/fglrx and run './make_install.sh' in order to install the module into your kernel's module repository. (see readme.txt for more details.) As of now you can still run your XServer in 2D, but hardware acclerated OpenGL will not work and 2D graphics will lack performance. failed. Please help. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. Thank you, -Pasi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randuev Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 *** Error: no kernel module build environment - please consult readme. explains a lot. it looks like you don't have kernel sources installed. go into Install Software and install kernel sources. also make sure you have gcc installed as well. after that try again. make sure you run all this from level 3 (in console type "init 3" and after install is finished come back to "init 5"). Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjlehtim Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 (edited) thanks for help but I just run into another problem I can't solve. I installed the kernel sources in the install software and tried to run make.sh ATI module generator V 2.0 ========================== initializing... Error: kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include do not match current kernel. they are versioned as "" instead of "2.4.25-2mdk". you might need to adjust your symlinks: - /usr/include - /usr/src/linux ???? Hate to say but I think these kind of problems are those that will prevent Linux to be used in mainstream desktop for a very long time. Why this driver is done this way... there must be some easier way of doing things. I'm almost ready to give up with all the 3d stuff... Strange though that I got these drivers running in 9.2 easily. What's so different in 10? Edited March 15, 2004 by pjlehtim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pain999 Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 (edited) I got my Radeon 9800 Pro to work, but it certainly was not an easy process for a newb like me. I followed the instructions from the 3D Rage forum, cause the ones at ATI did not work (it was not clear that there was a double -- before force). Then I went thru the configuration in the console which was a very long convoluted process and I was afraid I would get something wrong and blow up my monitor. It certainly was not a process I would want to do very often, and I still don't know if I did everything correctly :unsure: Edited March 16, 2004 by Pain999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randuev Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 pjlehtim: can you NOT run make.sh, but try to do "rpm -Uvh --force" on RPM you've downloaded? I have never had to manually run make.sh When everything is configured and ready to go, it would be done automatically as part of RPM process, AFAIR. and it was only 4 days ago that I did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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