Hello. I just switched from a NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 to an ATI Radeon
9800 PRO (AIW) recently. I got Windows drivers and applications working.
Tonight, I uninstalled NVIDIA driver to try ATI driver.
I was unable to get Linux drivers to set work correctly. I got the
desktop working, but I don't have 3D acceleration. OpenGL screen savers
and probably games (did not bother to check) are choppy.
I am using old Red Hat Linux 7.2 (compiled Kernel 2.4.20) with most
updates (up2date and red-carpet). ATI's documents were a bit confusing,
and not easy to complete like NVIDIA's easy setup. Maybe I am doing this
all wrong. Here's are some results when I tried to install and compile
drivers:
uname -a
Linux ANTux-AXP 2.4.20 #12 Mon Aug 11 23:03:32 PDT 2003 i686 unknown
fglrx-glc22-4.1.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm:
Preparing... ##################################################
fglrx-glc22 ##################################################
*** Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
*** WARNING ***
Tailored kernel module for fglrx not present in your system.
You must go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir
and execute './make.sh' to build a fully customed kernel module.
Afterwards go to /lib/modules/fglrx and run './make_install.sh'
in order to install the module into your kernel's module repository.
(see readme.txt for more details.)
As of now you can still run your XServer in 2D, but hardware acclerated
OpenGL will not work and 2D graphics will lack performance.
failed.
*** Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
probing for VMA API version...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
skipping patch for 'drmP.h', not needed
doing script based build for kernel 2.4.x and similar
compiling 'agpgart_be.c'...
compiling 'agp3.c'...
compiling 'i7505-agp.c'...
compiling 'nvidia-agp.c'...
compiling 'firegl_public.c'...
linking of fglrx kernel module...
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
==============================
- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY
See
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
failed.
Installed: qt2 (gcc 2.96) based control panel application
===
ATI display drivers successfully installed
please run 'fglrxconfig' now
===
I tried to compile with my Kernel source (/usr/src/linux goes to
/home/ant/kernels/linux-2.4.20). When it was time to do ./make
install.sh, I got this:
- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY
See
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
failed.
How do I fix this? Do I really want to tamper with my Kernel sources?
Here's fglrxinfo result since I can run X11:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2
Here's dmesg (only listing fglrx lines):
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20a, 23:25:19 Aug 11 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0f.0
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8040 found, IO at 0x9000-0x901f, IRQ 5
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23)
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!
That doesn't look like I have the proper installation. Any ideas on
how to fix this problem? I'd like to get my OpenGL screen savers and
games to work again. Thank you in advance.
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