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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check the Radeon sticky thread for an ebuild. If you emerge rpm2targz and run it on the rpm, it'll give you a tarball that you can move to /usr/portage/distfiles so the ebuild can pick it up.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

so i would put the tar in the distfiles dir and then emerge 3.2.5 with

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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge ati-drivers-3.2.5


is that right?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you want to specify a particular version, you should add an equals sign:
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge =ati-drivers-3.2.5
but you don't need that here as 3.2.5 is the latest version, just use
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ati-drivers

There isn't a ebuild in portage yet (AFAIK), so you'll have to get the one in the Radeon sticky if you haven't already and use that.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wedge_ wrote:
If you want to specify a particular version, you should add an equals sign:
Code:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge =ati-drivers-3.2.5
but you don't need that here as 3.2.5 is the latest version, just use
Code:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ati-drivers

There isn't a ebuild in portage yet (AFAIK), so you'll have to get the one in the Radeon sticky if you haven't already and use that.

the ebuild has just been spotted in the wild 8)
still needs some refinement thus
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ati drivers are not as optimized for linux as they are for windows. I know that ati is continually working on making better drivers but the drivers aren't fast enough for me yet. Does anyone have any idea as to when the linux drivers will be optimized enough to play et without getting as low as 20 fps with the radeon 9500 pro. I get an average of 40 but when there are a lot of polygons, my fps goes extremely low. If anyone has any idea about the new driver release timeframe it would be helpful.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gentooalex wrote:
The ati drivers are not as optimized for linux as they are for windows. I know that ati is continually working on making better drivers but the drivers aren't fast enough for me yet. Does anyone have any idea as to when the linux drivers will be optimized enough to play et without getting as low as 20 fps with the radeon 9500 pro.

Actual ati-drivers are firegl-drivers (so they are more comparable to FireGL-Windows drivers then to Catalyst-Windows drivers), which are more optimized for non-game-apps (e.g. CAD and similar) but ati is working on Catalyst-drivers for Linux (i've read an announce that they are searching for beta-testers for the new linux-catalyst-driver-series) so i think it won't be long until Linux-drivers are also optimized like the Windows-Versions.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sputnik1969 wrote:
but ati is working on Catalyst-drivers for Linux (i've read an announce that they are searching for beta-testers for the new linux-catalyst-driver-series) so i think it won't be long until Linux-drivers are also optimized like the Windows-Versions.

I don't think that's actually correct. I applied to be a beta tester when I saw the recent announcements, and the drivers we were given to test were the same 3.2.5 drivers as were released officially a few days ago...
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw a post on a message board http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=f54c5aae5a088427cab4a04a7b15195a&threadid=33703965 in which an ATI guy said he needed linux testers for catylyst drivers. I dont know if he meant firgl because one of his sig links is for "catalist drivers" but is just a link to the ati drivers site.


Im not going to be able to do any more testing for the drivers for a while.
My radeon 9500 pro was recently fried by flashing the ROM so i am getting it reparied under warranty. ATI better not consider a 9600pro an "equivilent" if they replace my card! Im sure they have a supply of 9500pros in storage for replacing faulty cards.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 2:38 pm    Post subject: Re: 9500 Reply with quote

gentooalex wrote:
I found that the 3.2.4 drivers are A LOT faster than 2.9 in ut2k3 when using the fasttls"1" fix. also, i rarely get under 20 fps with enemy territory(actually i think et was running without the fix so i might get higher when i try again). average of 30-40. I have a 9500 pro and pentium4 1.6ghz processor. I am using one of the fixes but If i restart my computer, i have to reinstall et or i will get a black screen without the game when i try to start et. Is anyone getting better frame rates with similar hardware,? What are you doing to improve performance?


oops must have hit the quote instead of the edit button... sorry
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gentooalex wrote:
I saw a post on a message board http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=f54c5aae5a088427cab4a04a7b15195a&threadid=33703965 in which an ATI guy said he needed linux testers for catylyst drivers. I dont know if he meant firgl because one of his sig links is for "catalist drivers" but is just a link to the ati drivers site.

Yep, he posted that in a couple of different forums there. That's what I applied for.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just did emerge sync and do not see 3.2.5 in portage.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oops, forgot to delete that post. I found it right after posting that. It was a long day :).
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is DGA working in the 3.2.5 drivers? I'd really like to play some Quake 1 and be able to use the mouse :)
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, I think DGA does work.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well it works in that X will start, but games run really poorly and unplayable.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I followed the first guide and everything went wrong...

when I typed ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ati-drivers

I got these errors
!!! ERROR: media-video/ati-drivers-2.3.5
!!! Function src_compile, Line66, exitcode

I used the 2.3.4 version...

When I tried with just emerge ati-drivers this happened

!!! ERROR: media-video/ati-drivers-2.9.12
!!! Function src_compile, Line66, exitcode

strange version I think
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You'll need to post more of the output from the ebuild, the last couple of lines aren't very helpful by themselves.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wedge_ wrote:
You'll need to post more of the output from the ebuild, the last couple of lines aren't very helpful by themselves.


is there a log file for this??? I mean I have to start xp to write to this forum and it takes long time if I has to first write down all text then send it to this post.

I tried with the version 3.2.5 but I got the same problem.

It sad, realy it is
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are logfiles for each emerge you run under /var/log/portage.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test6-mm1'
*** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause
*** inconsistencies
make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/agpgart_be.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/agp3.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/i7505-agp.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/nvidia-agp.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.o
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:422:27: warning: extra tokens at end of #ifdef directive
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:850:27: warning: extra tokens at end of #ifdef directive
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c: In function `__ke_geteuid':
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:899: structure has no member named `euid'
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c: At top level:
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:3103: warning: `have_cpuid_p' defined but not used
make[1]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.o] Error 1
make: *** [/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-3.2.5/work/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test6-mm1'
* glx module not built



I dont think it likes test6-mm1
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