Guest mahiles Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 The version that came with Mandrake 9.1 doesn't support my graphics card but they have done a version since then which does.. Can anyone help me with upgrading it? According to what I've read I need to update using CVS? clueless And also if upgrading fails is there a way to revert back? I looked on the CVS site because on the XFree86 site it said I'd need to download something from there but I could only see Redhat rpms? Lol as you can see I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing!! Thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Check out the version of x in the release candidate. It might work! I tried upgrading x along time ago and it is quite a project. You might long for rpm's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mahiles Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 What release candidate? All I can find is the current release which doesn't support my card or using the CVS thing to update which includes a version that does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 What card? I wouldn't attempt a cvs XFree86. The RH rpms should work and yes you can easily revert to the default. First do; rpm -qa | grep XFree86 and write these down. If something goes wrong, you'll need to know exactly which pkgs were originally installed. You can boot 'failsafe' to init 3 (console)>su to root>and; rpm -e --nodeps XFree86* you may need to be specific, naming all from the grep output; rpm -e --nodeps XFree86 XFree86-server XFree86-libs etc....til you have all listed and hit 'Enter' Then cd /path/to/RH/rpms and rpm -ivh XFree86 XFree86-server XFree86-libs again naming all at one time. If that fails DO NOT use --force or --nodeps. Try something else.....like wait :wink: To reinstall the default; urpmi XFree86 it'll give you a list of available and again; urpmi <list the ones you originally had installed> You can also use urpmi to upgrade by adding the dir you downloaded the rh rpms to, to urpmi's sources, BUT, if you need to revert then you have to install the default from the commandline by hand off the cd's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mahiles Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Geez to me this sounds complicated lol I'll certainly give it a go.. By the way I've got a Radeon 9600 Pro and I know for a fact ATI has linux drivers but not for my card :( Quite a few people have pointed me to ATI drivers but if you read the small print none of them seem to like my card. Like I said I'll give it a go thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Mahiles, because I could remember having read in German boards about linux driver for the ati radeon pro - go to this site: http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html It's in German, though, you'll find drivers for Fire GL blala - which are working with Ati too. The one you need is probably (I am not sure, I know nothing about video cards ...): http://www.schneider-digital.de/download/a..._linux_X4.3.zip There is a readme too. If you need a translator for the site, just ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 The download link at the top of this page will take you to our very own ftp site, where iso's for 9.2 rc1 are now (release candidate means if no bugs are found it becomes the final - there were betas before the rc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mahiles Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Here we go.. I can't download the release candidate iso's because I'm only on dialup.. I'm trying to avoid having to do what bvc said because it sounds complicated (to me at least ) and if something goes wrong I may mess everything up so I'd prefer to do that as a last option. At the moment X works but it thinks I'm using a completely different card and I get lots of errors when I stop the X server. I went to that German site and altho it mentions ATI cards I couldn't find my specific one listed.. In an effort to try finding an easier way of doing this I downloaded the "source tarball" of version 4.3.99.11 except I'm worried that if I install this the rpms won't be able to detect it (because I didn't install it as an rpm). And does anyone know how to install it? Can I just install over the old version etc etc? I tried reading the install instructions but it went on about 3 files which has my confused.. Thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 I went to that German site and altho it mentions ATI cards I couldn't find my specific one listed.. You are not into reading readme files? In English, btw. And it *does* list your card. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mahiles Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Sorry I must have had my eyes closed! Well I ran the rpm and got the following error: file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.0 conflicts with file from package XFree86-libs-4.3-5mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 r e a d m e lol you'll find there how to install the rpm for specific distributions like RedHat ... RedHat 8.0 installations often include a specific version of the libGL component. (For example, provided by the rpm package XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.2.0-72). Installing the ATI Linux driver package causes a conflict because the ATI Linux drivers include a custom-built libGL version providing extra pbuffer support. The ATI libGL is backward compatible to the respective XFree86 libGL version. Install the ATI Linux driver package and replace the existing libGL installation as follows: - Force RPM to use the replacement file of the ATI driver package: rpm -i --force <ati_package_name>.rpm NOTE: This includes overriding the rpm warning or - Remove the existing libGL installation and then install the new libGL with the ATI driver installation. For example: rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.2.0-72 rpm -Uhv <ati_package_name>.rpm NOTES: (1) Ensure that no OpenGL program is running during installation (2) You need the "--nodeps" option because some screen savers, qt-3, and some parts of XFree86 might depend on the libGL presence. Installing the new libgl from the ATI package will restore the required libGL presence. Perform the following steps after you have installed the driver files: - Run fglrxconfig to configure your XFree86 installation. - Respond to the questions of the fglrxconfig program - Save the settings to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mahiles Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 [root@localhost Documents]# rpm -i --force fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.0.i586.rpm *** 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 === [root@localhost Documents]# cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod [root@localhost build_mod]# ./make.sh ATI module generator V 2.0 ========================== kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete file: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h [root@localhost build_mod]# fglrxconfig ============================================================================== ATi - FIRE GL - BE THE CREATOR ============================================================================== This program will create the ATI "XF86Config-4" file - based on your selections - for the below listed boardtypes... - ATI Radeon 8500 / 9100 - ATI FireGL 8700 / 8800 - ATI FireGL E1 - ATI FireGL T2 - ATI Radeon 9000 - ATI Radeon 9200 - ATI Radeon 9500 - ATI Radeon 9600 - ATI Radeon 9700 - ATI Radeon 9800 - ATI FireGL Z1 / X1 / X2 - ATI Mobility M9 - ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 - ATI Mobility M9PLUS The "XF86Config-4" file usually resides in /etc/X11. Press [Enter] to continue, or [Ctrl]+'c' to abort. Do I need to do the ./make-sh and all that or won't I need to bother? Even when I run it, it moans at me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Sorry, can't help you here any further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mahiles Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Thanks anyway if anything I've been taught to read the readme lol thats impatient me 4 ya... Ok then here's another question, does anyone know how to create an rpm file for me? Its obvious I can't do much with Mandrake yet but does anyone know who could make an rpm of the latest version of xfree86 ( 4.3.99.11 ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsn...3.99.11.tar.bz2 ) for me? As I've said that also includes a driver.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Learning how to make rpm's is my next desire... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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