Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

[Nicolas de Sereville <deserevi@ieec.fcr.es>]

Hi,

Wim De Smet wrote:

> Hi,
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:23:23 +0200, Nicolas de Sereville
> <deserevi@ieec.fcr.es> wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Wim De Smet wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:53:58 +0200, Nicolas de Sereville
> > > <deserevi@ieec.fcr.es> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Hi list,
> > > >
> > > > I have an Ati 9600XT graphical card and I want to get 3D acceleration
> > > > with the propriatary drivers (fglrx). I am using debian Sid with the
> > > > last xserver version (4.3.0.dfsg.1-7).
> > > >
> > > > [install stuff...]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > Are you sure the user you're running fglrxinfo with has access to
> > > opengl (eg member of group video) and that you have the ATI kernel
> > > module installed?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Running the "groups" command shows that the user belongs to the video
> > group. Also, the fglrx  module is loaded (I can see it with lsmod). I
> > think my problem is more related to the instalation procedure and the
> > use of dpkg-divert since I managed to have 3d acceleration with the
> > former version of the xserver but overwriting the libGL library.
> >    
>
> Sounds good, but just to be sure check your xfree startup log. I had
> this fail a while back because of AGP support problems. I can't help
> you much with dpkg-divert, but as I recall from trying to change
> things myself the manpages aren't very helpfull and I'm doubtfull if
> they are correct.
>
>  
Well, looking at the logs from XFree86.0.log, I can see the following:

... ...
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
(II) fglrx(0):     Name: fglrx
(II) fglrx(0):     Version: 3.9.0
(II) fglrx(0):     Date: May 11 2004
(II) fglrx(0):     Desc: ATI Fire GL DRM kernel module
(WW) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version does *not* match driver.
(EE) fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated 
OpenGL will
not work
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe0912000 at 0x4024f000
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)             *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
... ...

which doesn't sound good. I just installed the driver from the ATI 
webpage (after running the alien command). Maybe a problem when 
compiling the driver, but I took care using the same version of gcc 
(2.95) that I used for compiling my kernel.

Cheers,
Nico