Re: Good news: the latest ATI-driver + Xorg7 + 3d-accel works on 64-bit !!!
Am Dienstag, 30. Mai 2006 15:46 schrieb Sylvain Archenault:
> 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 ?
Yes, it does, but when loading a new mpg-file it crashes.
A CD or DVD runs normally.
Best regards
Hans
>
> > Good luck !
> >
> > Hans
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