Comments on Techno Wizah: Debian HOW-TO : ATI drivers

great tutorial but for some reason i get an error ...

2008-11-30T13:28:39.823-05:00

great tutorial but for some reason i get an error after i do this command

root@system:/home/user/Desktop# m-a a-i fglrx

Updated infos about 1 packages
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686
Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/build
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree

Hi, first of all, thx for this tutorial!I have mad...

2008-06-30T15:30:24.173-04:00

Hi, first of all, thx for this tutorial!
I have made a german translation of this one, slightly altered to work with the current Debian testing. The link is http://cordonbloed.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/

thanks for the tutorial! when i run as root cat /v...

2008-03-03T08:23:14.641-05:00

thanks for the tutorial! when i run as root cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i aiglx i get the following
(==) AIGLX enabled
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23
repeating up to
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x72
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so

is this bad? does anyone have experience of running compiz

Hi Pedro,As I have been without an ATI card for a ...

2008-02-26T22:23:23.193-05:00

Hi Pedro,

As I have been without an ATI card for a while, I haven't followed the development of its driver.

It seems however that you can get the fglrx driver to work with compiz-fusion. Perhaps there's a hint here.

Good luck, and thanks for reading.

Hugues

Hi!I am running debian unstable (lenny) and want t...

2008-02-24T19:08:15.237-05:00

Hi!
I am running debian unstable (lenny) and want to intall compiz-fusion but I run into problems. I installed succesfully (I think) the module fglrx. I used the prebuilt binaries and then installed it using

module-assistant a-i fglrx

it did something and said that it was installed. I can load it:
modprobe -v fglrx
insmod/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-686/misc/fglrx.ko
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Hello Vincent,I suggest you start a thread about t...

2007-12-04T09:52:17.481-05:00

Hello Vincent,

I suggest you start a thread about this issue on a Linux forum, like Linuxforums.org or Linuxquestions.org.

Perhaps there someone who experienced the same difficulties will be able to help you.

Thanks for reading, and thank

Hi, i'm a new user to linux and followed your inst...

2007-12-04T02:24:11.810-05:00

Hi, i'm a new user to linux and followed your instruction and all the step worked without any errors however am i greeted with a black screen when i do startx. When i did a cat xorg.0.log | grep EE I found no errors though just a message about fglrx(0): Loading MIT-SCREEN-SAVER. Any ideas as to why i'm getting a black screen everytime? also what exactly is MIT-SCREEN-SAVER and why is it

Hello,To answer this FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompati...

2007-11-10T23:09:34.228-05:00

Hello,

To answer this FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'paravirt_ops' question.

This problem appeared first in the 2.6.20.x kernels. It is related to a new "feature", enabled by default in the Debian kernels: CONFIG_PARAVIRT.

Other than using a custom kernel with this feature disabled, I am unsure of the solution.
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Really good instructions. Everything resulted as d...

2007-11-05T01:09:04.143-05:00

Really good instructions. Everything resulted as described. My problem must be isolated because i still can't get "fglrxinfo" to print the expected informaiton.

please help,dh_testrootrm -f configure-stamprm -f ...

2007-10-03T01:49:48.080-04:00

please help,

dh_testroot
rm -f configure-stamp
rm -f fglrx.ko fglrx.mod.c *.o libfglrx_ip.a
rm -f .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
rm -rf .tmp_versions
rm -rf patch
dh_clean
rm /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control
rm /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/dirs
if [ -f /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control.template ]; then \
cat

Great tutorial!Worked perfect for me on Deb/lenny ...

2007-09-21T03:55:22.290-04:00

Great tutorial!

Worked perfect for me on Deb/lenny x86_64 with ati8.40.XXX!
Thx!!!

Bye

Hello,It seems you have an old kernel, for which a...

2007-09-13T07:05:21.560-04:00

Hello,

It seems you have an old kernel, for which a kernel-header package isn't available anymore.

Perhaps the best solution would be to put your system up-to-date (unless you have a good reason not to do so):
apt-get dist-upgrade

In the end you will have the latest Etch kernel, for which you will have no problem installing the kernel-headers

at this stage:sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$...

2007-09-13T04:52:36.450-04:00
at this stage:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

i got

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686

what to do

Thank you SO MUCH - this is my first day on linux ...

2007-09-12T18:36:15.054-04:00
Thank you SO MUCH - this is my first day on linux and this how to is exactly what I needed. Many many thanks

First of all thanks for this great tutorial!Unfort...

2007-09-04T07:36:32.964-04:00
First of all thanks for this great tutorial!
Unfortunately I seem to have a similar (or the same?) problem as Mauricio. I've got a "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]" devive in a ThinkPad T40p.
I completed all steps of your tutorial. But if I try to start X with the "fglrx" driver, X fails outputting the message "no screens found".
I used you're xorg.conf

You, sir, are a god among men. The only easily un...

2007-08-25T19:55:55.084-04:00
You, sir, are a god among men. The only easily understood and technically complete explanation of how to configure this driver properly I have come across. Thanks for helping those of us trying to learn the ropes.

you don't have to configure xorg.conf by hand, jus...

2007-08-01T12:16:18.698-04:00
you don't have to configure xorg.conf by hand, just type
# aticonfig --initial
as root, it'll do this for you. i had no problems...

Hi, I have a ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C63 [Radeon...

2007-07-08T02:36:30.072-04:00
Hi, I have a ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C63 [Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] card, I follow all your steps, but when I try to start the X server I got: No device found. If I depmod fglrx the module insert ok, but I can't start X, any clues? my xorg.conf device section is:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 AS [Radeon 9600 AS]"
Driver "

Hello, excellent tutorial so far, but I am unable ...

2007-07-02T17:31:08.872-04:00
Hello, excellent tutorial so far, but I am unable to get past the second step, where you say to "Second, prepare the ATI packages from the file just downloaded" then you have a code.

I tried to use that code, but I was given a message

sh: Can't open ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run

and then I saw to replace Debian/etch with my distribution, and I have no idea

I have a question... Does this work with an ATI Ra...

2007-06-25T16:23:33.958-04:00
I have a question... Does this work with an ATI Radeon 9250? Should I use this driver or the 8.28.8?

In debian/lenny there isn /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Mybe...

2007-06-18T16:49:01.224-04:00
In debian/lenny there isn /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Mybe you have older from etch, i install debian last week.

Yes it would.Since Mepis 6.5 is based on Ubuntu, j...

2007-06-13T06:52:48.616-04:00
Yes it would.

Since Mepis 6.5 is based on Ubuntu, just build the ATI packages for Ubuntu/feisty.

Good luck,

Hugues

Would this work for SimplyMepis V6.5.02 64bit and ...

2007-06-13T01:28:13.069-04:00
Would this work for SimplyMepis V6.5.02 64bit and an ATI X1950?

Thanks Hugues. That worked. I thought I already ha...

2007-06-02T11:05:48.640-04:00
Thanks Hugues. That worked. I thought I already had that installed (must have been confused with the version in my 32bit chroot). :)

I also sent a request to ATI/AMD that they post a link to your page here. It's clearly the best guide for Debian users - much better than the old and unworkable guides they currently point to.

Hi Gary,Make sure you have the package libstdc++5 ...

2007-06-02T09:13:12.297-04:00
Hi Gary,

Make sure you have the package libstdc++5 installed. So that would be:

apt-get install libstdc++5

Thanks for reading, and thanks for your comment,

Hugues