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Re: 3d acceleration on Ati with fglrx?



On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:18:12 +0100
Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:

> Has anyone had any success with 3d acceleration using fglrx on Debian?
> 
> I'm currently on Debian testing, with kernel 2.6.21-2-686 #1 SMP. This
> is an Ati X-1400 card. I have 2d  with fglrx but not 3d. I tried the
> Debian packages with module-assistant and also the installer supplied
> by AMD. but compiling failed with various messages (don't recall what
> - didn't understand them). Googling mostly sends me back to the
> solutions I've tried. A lost cause, perhaps?

I installed the ATI Driver (proprietary version 8.39.4) and had to go
back to kernel version 2.6.18-4-k7 to get everything working properly.
(At least back to the 2.6.18 series). There is a conflict between the
latest kernel and the latest ATI driver.  

Hope that helps!

> 
> Anthony
> 


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