ATI Radeon 9600 Pro driver installation for Redhat 9

[drowningman]

Hello,

I have been trying to install the official ATI drivers for my radeon 9600 Pro on redhat 9 for a while now and I've had no success. I'm currently using the default vesa driver and it totally sucks. Anyway, after installing the driver's rpm, I run the config and everything goes well except that when I try to reload X (CTRL-BACKSPACE), it won't load and complains that it cannot find "fglrx" which is the driver used for my ATI card.

Has anyone configured the ATI radeon drivers and gotten them to work on redhat9? If so, could you give me some tips as to how to go about it?

PS: the drivers can be found at: http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/bo ... d_ati.html

[Membrax]

Hi !

I just went for some days on many other Linux help forums ... and my issue is still there.

I've installed the latest ATI driver ( 3.2.8 ) for XFree 4.3 to address my ATI 9700PRO correctly.
Everything runs fine ... in 2D !
However, I'd really like to run some openGL game like Q3 or UT2003 f.i.

I already tried so many different things ...
Building modules, re-installing drivers, manually configure XF86Config and so on and so on.

I wouldn't hesitate to send some Belgian chocolates to the guy who could give me a hand on this ... really, I mean it.

[Void Main]

Man, I really wish I could help you with this but I've seen a mixed bag of comments regarding ATI and Linux. I can only attest for the GeForce cards. Quite some time ago I decided to pick up a 3D card and searched for Linux compatibility and found very positive information about the GeForce. At the time the GeForce 2 was the latest one available (yeah, long time ago). I believe I paid around $40-$50 for it at the time and I still have no need to upgrade. It handles all the graphics I've been able to throw at it in both 2D and 3D. I think you can pick one up now for about 20 bucks but you would probably want a newer model. nVidia has a very nice driver installation (at least for Red Hat and a few others). The drivers are not open source which is the only knock I have against them but they do work well. Again, sorry I'm useless on your ATI question.

[Membrax]

In /etc/modules.conf just add (as root) :

options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1


Assuming that agpgart is loaded obviously.
Try "modprobe agpgart" to see that.

Cheers !