I'm about to give up on Linux, I've tried a lot for 3D accel

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dxben · #1 Post by **dxben** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:22 pm

I have tried everything, and I can't get Feisty 7.04 Kubuntu to run with the fglrx drivers.

Can anyone confirm they've done this?

karmaflux · #2 Post by **karmaflux** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:57 am

fglrx might not work with an nvidia graphics chip

dxben · #3 Post by **dxben** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:05 am

I don't have an NVIDIA chipset, I have a T60p with a FireGL 5200.

Why isn't this working?

Superego · #4 Post by **Superego** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:15 am

I have a FireGL 5200 and I have the fglrx drivers working, except I'm using SuSE 10.2, so maybe that is of no use to you. What have you done so far?

#5 Post by **carbon_unit** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:57 pm

Must be your distro. I'm running the fglrx driver and I didn't have to do anything.

Techgurl · #6 Post by **Techgurl** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:43 pm

Feisty is just a beta. I am not sure if the FGLRX drivers are working for it?

You could try edgy or dapper.

NightStorm · #7 Post by **NightStorm** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:18 pm

I too am running openSUSE 10.2 with the ATI fglrx drivers. This on a Thinkpad T60p (FireGL 5200). Works well.

karmaflux · #8 Post by **karmaflux** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:54 am

Techgurl wrote:You could try edgy or dapper.

Or, you know, SUSE, Slackware, Fedora, etc. It's pretty silly to "give up on linux" because one beta-level distribution doesn't accelerate 3d.

dickeywang · #9 Post by **dickeywang** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:49 pm

Feisty Fawn uses Xorg 7.2, which has not been supported by the ATI driver yet.
Try Edgy, it works perfect on my T60 (200766U), I followed this HOWTO:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... tion_Guide

kulivontot · #10 Post by **kulivontot** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:30 pm

I got edgy to work too with an ATI card with full fglrx support. Give it a try...

dxben · #11 Post by **dxben** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:03 pm

Ok I can try the previous Kubuntu version, but Edgy does not offer WPA WiFi encryption in it's wifi manager, which I need for my network.

I guess that's another thread.

Isn't Feisty supposed to be released any week now? Will it be lacking FireGL support from the initial release?

karmaflux · #12 Post by **karmaflux** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:32 am

dxben wrote:Ok I can try the previous Kubuntu version, but Edgy does not offer WPA WiFi encryption in it's wifi manager, which I need for my network.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy ... rk-Manager

or

http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wpa-w ... linux.html

Feisty will be released on April 19. There is still time for you to submit bug reports about this issue. Some have already been filed; because you provided no actual error messages, or other useful diagnostic information, I don't know if your situation has been reported.

There is a general "it don't work"-style bug filed:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... +bug/77420

feel free to add your experiences to it.

axiom · #13 Post by **axiom** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:29 pm

xorg 7.2 is supported

I think what isn't supported is kernel 2.6.20

Wait a bit, 2.6.20 support should come within a month

dsalyers · #14 Post by **dsalyers** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:32 pm

axiom wrote:xorg 7.2 is supported

I think what isn't supported is kernel 2.6.20

Wait a bit, 2.6.20 support should come within a month

I don't know if this will work on your distribution, but http://rpm.livna.org/ has fglrx default install with the 2.6.20 kernel. It works well. I am running it under FC6_x86_64.

runixd · #15 Post by **runixd** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:32 pm

It all works just fine, RTM.

syedj · #16 Post by **syedj** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:11 pm

3D acceleration (with Beryl) works out of box with linux Gentoo based distribution Sabayon on both T60 (X1400128MB ) and T42 (Radeon 9660 64MB). Sabayon is a live CD so you can try before installing.

ahaile · #17 Post by **ahaile** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:11 pm

dxben: I just got 3d accel working on my t60p with Feisty Faun. Actually, it worked out of the box for me, but then I played around with the open source driver and when I went back to the ATI proprietary one, 3d accel stopped working, so I had to figure out what was wrong. If you haven't already, go to System > Administration > Restricted Driver Manager and enable the ATI drivers, which will install the necessary files in two packages fglrx-kernel and xorg-driver-fglrx. If 3d accel still isn't working for you, check that:

- the fglrx kernel module is being loaded (run 'sudo lsmod | grep fglrx'. If it doesn't find the fglrx module, there's your problem. Run 'sudo modprobe -i fglrx' and restart X)

- Composite is disabled in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, as compositing doesn't work with 3d accel in the current ATI driver (in Section "Extensions", there should be a line Option "Composite" "0").

Hope that helps.

I'm about to give up on Linux, I've tried a lot for 3D accel

I'm about to give up on Linux, I've tried a lot for 3D accel

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