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ATI XFree86-4.3 drivers.... any takers? Please post results


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Check out the official ATI site: http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/r...ee&cmdNext=Next

It has fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.5.1.i586.rpm, an earlier version (v2.5.1) of what http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html is providing (v2.9.6). Surprisingly, the ATI site does not have the latest driver anywhere. Has ATI stopped developing linux drivers ?

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Update: the 2.96 drivers work well in Mandrake 9.1! I did a forced install of the RPM then had to run the included make.sh script to compile a binary for the kernel. Ran the "fglrxconfig" to generate a new XF86Config-4 file. Edit it to change the PCI ID from 1:0:1 to 1:0:0. Reboot and it worked!

 

Im using a Sapphire Radeon9000 Pro

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After some further research I found that I didnt unload the 'radeon' module before loading the 'fglrx' module. So evidently the module didnt load, restarting X didnt work for me.

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  • 3 weeks later...
After some further research I found that I didnt unload the 'radeon' module before loading the 'fglrx' module. So evidently the module didnt load, restarting X didnt work for me.
No need to reboot for this too. Just quit X (and go to run-level 3). Then run as root:
modprobe -vr radeon

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