ATI drivers info overload!

wallace1819 · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 195 Location: VT

As my new laotop bootstraps I decided to take a look at what it was going to take to get my ATI radeon mobility 9000 R250 to work. Now I'm a little nervus! After reading through about a hundred posts I think I'm suffering from info overload and conflicting information.

I plan on using ...

gentoo-sources kernel 2.4.20_r5
xfree 4.3
ati-drivers

My questions are....

to get both 2D and 3D working

do i compile my kernel with agp enabled/module or disabled?
do i compile my kernel with drm disabled enabled

This is an important one!!!
does anyone know for sure if I need to install xfree-drm if i'm using the ati-drivers, if so do i need to emerge xfree-drm before or after ati-drivers?

This is what I believe I will need to do...

1) compile kernel with agp as module and no drm support
2) emerge xfree
3) emerge ati-drivers
4) openglx-update ati
4) configure x with fglxconfig

is this right or is my brain completly fried?

wallace

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

seems right, and don't install xfree-drm

wallace1819 · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 195 Location: VT

thx. I hope this works. there seems to be a lot of people having problems getting 3D going with the ati adapters. I was getting a little nervus!

wallace

sn4ip3r · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 12:38 pm Post subject:

ati-drivers for xfree 4.3.0 are currently a bit unstable in some 3D apps like quake3 (freeze), I would reccomend to use xfree-drm, open-source dri that is (or if you want to get better performance with them, then use their cvs version )http://dri.sf.net

open-source dri, especially the upto-date version in CVS is almost as fast as ati's own closed source drivers and also has 16bpp depth if you need it and is a lot more stable also.