Hans wrote: > Am Dienstag, 30. Mai 2006 10:16 schrieb Andrew Ingram: >> On Saturday 27 May 2006 4:08 pm, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >>> Am Samstag, 27. Mai 2006 13:59 schrieb Sylvain Archenault: >>>> I managed to install it, it seems to work. But I had some problems. >>>> >>>> For example, mplayer 64 bit crashed while playing some videos (mplayer >>>> 32bits works fine). But when installing the package, it installed the >>>> lib in /emul/. So maybe it's the problem cause. So I returned to xorg >>>> driver. >>>> >>>> By the way, glxgears and glxinfo give me this errors : >>>> Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual >>>> >>>> Any idea ? >>> Same to me. >>> >>> And I do not know yet. I must do some tests, as all paths must be >>> checked. I still think, the driver is still al little buggy. >> I have the same problem too. Checking my xorg log, it looks like it cannot >> open DRI for the screen, although the dri module has been initialised just >> fine. >> >> Regards, >> Andrew > try this, what I did: > > I built the packages as normal. (ati.........run --buildpkg Debian/sid) > > Then I used the midgnight commander to look into the packags and copied all > the files manaully into the right position (fglrx-driver). > > Then I built the kernel-module with make-kpkg and installed ist manually on > the same way. > > To test it, I moved /etc/init.d/kdm out of the way, to avoid its start at > reboot. > > O.k., so far so good. Now I oaded the fglrx kernel-module with modconf. > > It loaded fine. > > After this I stopped kdm and from the consol I started X using startx. So I > could see errors, but everything went fine. > > After this, I copied kdm back, and installed the packages fglrx-driver and the > built kernel-module ith dpkg -i, to let them known in the database. > > Yes, it is a dirty way, but also this is a dirty driver ! > > I hope, this helps. And do not laugh: This worked for me. > > You can check it with fglrxinfo in X. > > fgl_glgears will not work. glxgears does work, but you will get no > results shown. Same for me, but does mplayer work for you ? > > > Good luck ! > > Hans > > > > -- Sylvain Archenault
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