ATI Accelleration Support

jhuebel · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject: ATI Accelleration Support

This post is just to inform users about the current state of ATI drivers for 64bit Linux. There aren't any yet.

Initially, the amd64 team was hearing that the drivers would be released "sometime during the summer". Now we are hearing that they may be released "by the end of the year". So I wouldn't hold my breath.

What does this mean for ATI users?

Well, things have improved somewhat since Gentoo has moved to xorg-x11. The radeon driver included with xorg is fast for 2D video. That's a Good Thing(tm).

However, 3D accelleration isn't available. So if you have any interest in 3D gaming, you should consider a video card or laptop with an NVidia chipset. NVidia drivers are very stable now and offer a 32bit compatibility layer.

This thread will be updated as we hear news from ATI or through the grapevine.
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jhuebel · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject:

ATi has released accellerated drivers for x86-64. Users are reporting varying success with these new drivers. Please let us know if you've been successful in installing and using them.

An ebuild is forthcoming, so be watching for it in portage.
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Trevoke · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject:

success after much pain.
Starting here is fantastic.
Got me right where I wanted to.
Although one detail..
after you get to ../opengl/ati ..
# mv libGL.so.1.2 _libGL.so.1.2
# wget ....
# ldconfig

The truth should set you free.
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Tony420 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:22 am Post subject:

jyxent · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2002 Posts: 14

I have gotten it working also. It seems to be about the same as the last version of the 32-bit drivers for speed on my machine. I have a mobile Radeon 9600. UT2004 is still a little choppy for me, though.

Jordan

kleinsimon · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:54 am Post subject:

It works for me too, but ive got only ~620 fps with Radeon 9800 and AMD64 3200+... don't know what I'm supposed to expect!

And i cant change my resolution due to an error with xrandr...

But nevertheless, better than without 3d...

Mythos · l33t Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 933 Location: Portugal

Well so far so good, i have got 3d and the only problem is about ET and my wi-fi card, some how et makes wi-fi card became out of memory

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nkolia · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 21

I've gotten the drivers to work without a problem. I had to remerge (re-emerge?) the drivers when I upgraded form 2.6.7 to 2.6.10, but I'm assuming that's because of kernel patches, and is very normal.

I've only played UT2004 Demo so far, but everything looked good and ran fine.

One difference I noticed is that by 32bit chroot apps that use X (mplayer and firefox) aren't able to connect to the X server. I haven't played around with this yet though.

A general request: While running fglrxconfig, I got hit with a lot of questions I didn't understand and just used the default. If someone could write up a guide to the options that would help us optimize the drivers, that would be greatly appreciated.
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Tony420 · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:04 am Post subject:

the new r1 build on portage fixes americas army...works without any editing startup scripts

Tony420 · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject:

theres now an r3 ebuild...any chance we can get a changelog or anything?

Kiff · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 73

Don't know if it's good enough for you, but:
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-video/ati-drivers/ChangeLog

Tony420 · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject:

they need to add to the changelog "borked everyones once working games"

needlern1 · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject:

Ignorance asking here

If I don't game and/or do other 3D type stuff, is there any other compelling reason for me to use the new driver? Does it just generally look better than the x.org driver? TIA, Bill

IamtheOne · Apprentice Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 156 Location: Iowa

Probalby no, I'd say stick with the xorg driver if it works and you don't need 3d...

Although, I have had no problems with 2d and the driver so it might be fine to give it a try.
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needlern1 · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:57 am Post subject:

Thanks IamtheOne. I've recently tackled getting vmware up and runnig. I think I'll wait awhile for this project

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kleinsimon · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:23 am Post subject:

Something I've noticed, is that switching to console works for me with the new fglrx. I've had several problems with this using the xorg-driver and vesa console.

Trevoke · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:39 am Post subject:

kleinsimon : really? the ati-drivers b0rked the tty-to-X switch for me.
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kleinsimon · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

yes! no lock-ups since I turned to fglrx. Switching and killing X is no Problem any more

Kow · Apprentice Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 227

Good job, emerged latest ati-drivers (revision 3 ebuild), ran fglrxconfig, had to switch Keyboard driver in the X config file it created though from "Keyboard" to "kbd". Then I ran modules-update, opengl-update ati, booted X, and ran glxgears:

12181 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2436.200 FPS
14466 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2893.200 FPS
14468 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2893.600 FPS
14491 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2898.200 FPS

glxinfo:
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9500 Pro Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)

Looking good

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Whenever I do a

Aggamemnon · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:05 am Post subject:

Has anyone got the transparancies etc from xorg going with this driver?

Kow · Apprentice Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 227

Now all we need is emul-linux-x86-ati and all would be well for Cedega. :-/
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