Re: problems with radeon driver
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 07:27 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200
> > (AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't work with this card,
> > after a small GUI activity, the screen freezes. I've reported this
> > problem in the past. The only workaround I've found was to install the
> > fglrx-driver package, run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and select the
> > fglrx driver instead the ati one. No more video freezes. But now totem
> > doesn't start, I get the message: The Application "totem" has quit
> > unexpectedly. This problem has to do exclusively with the fglrx driver.
> > I experimented with the ati and fglrx drivers in another i386 machine,
> > and totem didn't start with the fglrx driver. It works fine with the ati
> > driver from x.org.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Marcelo
> >
Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for your answer
> Hi Marcelo,
> I'm running Debian Lenny with an ATI Radeon 9550 card. I'm using the fglrx
> driver and have no problems at all.
> I'm running a 32-bit system but ATI
> supports AMD64 also so you should have no problems. My advice would be to
> remove all your fglrx packages and build them anew based on the
> ATI-driver-installer that you can get on the ATI site.
> Note that ATI gives
> the following message: 32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit Linux
> drivers to install or work.
> You'll also want to get rid of /usr/src/modules/fglrx
> Note that you need to get the 8.28.8 driver-installer since that's the last
> version that supports your card.
The fglrx-driver package from the debian stable (etch) repository is
built using the 8.28.8 binary version of the fglrx driver from ATI. So,
I don't know if rebuilding anew the package in my etch system makes any
difference at all. Basically, I should do the same thing the debian
maintainer of the fglrx-driver package have done. I am right?
> You then build the necessary debs using
> the --buildpkg Debian/[sid|lenny|etch] switch.
> You install the debian
> packages you've created and then use module-assistant to build the driver
> for your kernel. That should sort you out.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
Regards
Marcelo
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Marcelo Chiapparini
chiappa@oi.com.br
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