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  • dell 6400 + x1400 mobility + ATI 8.6 = no direct rendering

    Installed the x1400 mobility drivers from ATI.

    # chmod +x ati-driver-installer-8-6-x86.x86_64.run
    # ./ati-driver-installer-8-6-x86.x86_64.run

    I can run on 1680*1050 installation. But i can't make direct rendering working. Any idea how to?

    glxinfo | grep "rendering"
    direct rendering: No


    fglrxinfo
    display: :0.0 screen: 0
    OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
    OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
    OpenGL version string: 1.4 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.2)


    Tried couple of things but still no go...

    aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
    aticonfig --initial -f

    I can install ati drivers but somehow i am not able to make on rendering and 3d and it uses mesa.

    Code:
    Section "ServerLayout"
    	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
    	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Files"
    	RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
    	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Module"
    	Load  "xtrap"
    	Load  "dri"
    	Load  "record"
    	Load  "glx"
    	Load  "GLcore"
    	Load  "extmod"
    	Load  "dbe"
    	Load  "type1"
    	Load  "freetype"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
    	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    	Driver      "kbd"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
    	Identifier  "Mouse0"
    	Driver      "mouse"
    	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
    	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
    	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
    	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    	Driver      "fglrx"
    	Option	    "VideoOverlay" "on"
    	Option	    "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
    	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
    	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    	DefaultDepth     24
    	SubSection "Display"
    		Viewport   0 0
    		Depth     24
    	EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "Extensions"
    	Option	    "AIGLX" "off"
    	Option	    "Composite" "off"
    EndSectionCan some tell me how can i work around this error
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    Why i am getting this while I modprobe:
    # modprobe fglrx
    FATAL: Module fglrx not found.
    # modprobe -r dri radeon
    FATAL: Module dri not found.

    Using 2.6.21.5 Kernel.

  • #2
    Originally posted by namaste View Post
    Why i am getting this while I modprobe:
    # modprobe fglrx
    FATAL: Module fglrx not found.
    well that basically means that the kernel module was never built.
    I guess you run Ubuntu, then install the kernel headers , module-assistant.
    Also you might need the packages to build the kernel.
    there should be a package in the repositories called fglrx_kernel_src or similar.

    once you have it all set up run:
    sudo m-a prepare
    sudo m-a a-i fglrx

    (or module-assistant auto-install fglrx )

    now if everything works right you should have the kernel module automatically installed and loaded. ( lsmod | grep fglrx )

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    • #3
      I am using backtrack3. Where can i find the kernel headers? Well it installs well on ubuntu but i am having problems on BT3.

      Thanks for the help.

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      • #4
        Once you get the fglrx drivers from ati installed in Ubuntu, you need to run these commands for direct rendering

        sudo mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
        sudo ln -s /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri

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