Where to get latest ATI Radeon/FireGL Linux Drivers

redsolar · Jan 31, 2005, 05:35 PM

Latest Linux drivers (version 8.16.20, 16/08/2005) for x86 are available (make sure you are using the right link for your X version):

Latest Linux drivers (version 8.16.20, 16/08/2005) for x86_64 are available:

Latest ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Installer (XFree86 or X.Org) Last update - 16/08/2005

SuSE-specific Drivers (currently 8.12.10) can be found here
SuSE drivers have been updated to 8.12.10 for suse 9.1 and above (kernel module added as well)

Last update: 16/08/2005 (updated with new driver version)

go1dfish · Jan 31, 2005, 06:13 PM

If you are running gentoo I believe the latest drivers are keyword masked. If you want to try out the new ones run the following:

you ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ati-drivers

Note that this will probably take a while, because the new ati-drivers in gentoo list xorg 6.8 as a dependency so it will build it as well if you don't already have it

UberLord · Jan 31, 2005, 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by go1dfish

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ati-drivers

That is bad for a few reasons.

1) An emerge -uaDv world will downgrade the drivers next time
2) An emerge -uaDv world will downgrade the drivers next time

Thought I'd mention it twice

Here's some code to do it proper like so it remebers it always

Code:

mkdir -p /etc/portage # Only have todo this once
echo "media-video/ati-drivers ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

AMD64 users can replace ~x86 with ~amd64

USE flags can be done in a similar way - here's a sample from my /etc/portage/package.use

Code:

x11-base/xorg-x11 -bitmap-fonts -font-server -type1-fonts
media-video/mplayer dvd matroska theora xvid network live

As you can see, I ask xorg-x11 not to compile most fonts, whilst asking mplayer to compile more codec in.

RIV@NVX · Feb 1, 2005, 09:46 AM

Lastest packages (RPMs) for Fedora Core 1/2/3 can be found here.
If you want to browse the available packages, check this link.

/me is a fan of Fedora Core

Alpha-Omega · Feb 1, 2005, 06:04 PM

Users of Ubuntu Hoary can do the following:

Code:

sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver

Something similar should apply for Debian Unstable (sid):

Code:

su
apt-get install fglrx-driver

If this doesn't work, please send me a pm, I'm not a Debian user

.

Alpha-Omega

*mtippett* · Feb 2, 2005, 04:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alpha-Omega

Users of Ubuntu Hoary can do the following:

Code:

sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver

Something similar should apply for Debian Unstable (sid):

Please see

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.sta...installer.html

For debian packages.

Regards,

Matthew

Malus · Apr 12, 2005, 04:03 AM

What? No BSD drivers? Bah.

UberLord · Apr 12, 2005, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malus

What? No BSD drivers? Bah.

BSD != Linux

But really, there should be no technical reason why they can't. And in theory it should be easy enough as ATI goes the DRI route to rendering unlike nVidia

Step 1) Port fglrx kernel module to BSD

Step 2a) Convince ATI to release a binary that can talk to said kernel module
or
Step 2b) Write a "glue" wrapper to translate DRI linux -> BSD kernel module

If the BSD community can do Step 1, then I'm sure ATI should be able todo step 2a. If they won't for whatever reason then Step2b is "doable" - just damn hard!

RIV@NVX · Apr 14, 2005, 06:30 PM

I altered my sig because of posts like this one...

elyzzz · Aug 19, 2005, 01:27 PM

hello all..

i have a Compaq Presario R4000 series nb, and i would like to fire up the full potential of the embedded Ati Radeon Xpress 200M 128Mb graphic vid...

i have freshly installed Linux Fedora Core 4 on a partition.. but seems to not recognize the graphics adapter and uses a standard vesa vga driver.. with a poor rendering of images...

anyone can give me suggestions /tricks to install the *right* driver for my nb and make it work without having a lot of hassles?

i'm not a noob on linux.. but i don't like to go wandering and getting troubles on installing it

thanks in advance
Max
Italy

beerad · Aug 19, 2005, 06:50 PM

Go to www.ati.com, and navigate through ATI Customer Care > Drivers and Software > Linux > Linux x86_64 > Motherboards with ATI Graphics > You should see "ATI Proprietary Linux x86_64 Driver 8.16.20 for Radeon Xpress 200 Series". Download either the installer (big) or the xorg rpm (smaller). Install it, and depending on which kernel you have, it might succeed. Even if it fails it should install enough of the driver for 2d support. You can check /usr/share/fglrx/fglrx-install.log to see what it did, and it should install some documentation into /usr/share/doc/fglrx/

Edited to add Don't forget to run fglrxconfig after installing!

elyzzz · Aug 20, 2005, 01:40 PM

i have installed them successfully.. but seems to not recognize the chipset correctly...

there is something to do to fix it?

RIV@NVX · Sep 4, 2005, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malus

What? No BSD drivers? Bah.

I'm not 100% sure what does this really mean, but check it out:

Quote:

23 Aug 2005; Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
ati-drivers-8.14.13-r2.ebuild, ati-drivers-8.16.20.ebuild:
BSD support

It's located here: http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?...ers-8.14.13-r4

UberLord · Sep 5, 2005, 10:10 AM

That's probably BSD userland (as opposed to GNU userland) support which means still no *BSD driver

Jan 31, 2005, 05:35 PM	#1
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Feb 1, 2005, 09:46 AM	#4
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Feb 1, 2005, 06:04 PM	#5
Alpha-Omega DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	Users of Ubuntu Hoary can do the following: Code: sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver Something similar should apply for Debian Unstable (sid): Code: su apt-get install fglrx-driver If this doesn't work, please send me a pm, I'm not a Debian user . Alpha-Omega

Apr 12, 2005, 04:03 AM	#7
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Jan 31, 2005, 06:13 PM	#2
go1dfish DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	If you are running gentoo I believe the latest drivers are keyword masked. If you want to try out the new ones run the following: you ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ati-drivers Note that this will probably take a while, because the new ati-drivers in gentoo list xorg 6.8 as a dependency so it will build it as well if you don't already have it

Aug 19, 2005, 01:27 PM	#10
elyzzz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	hello all.. i have a Compaq Presario R4000 series nb, and i would like to fire up the full potential of the embedded Ati Radeon Xpress 200M 128Mb graphic vid... i have freshly installed Linux Fedora Core 4 on a partition.. but seems to not recognize the graphics adapter and uses a standard vesa vga driver.. with a poor rendering of images... anyone can give me suggestions /tricks to install the right driver for my nb and make it work without having a lot of hassles? i'm not a noob on linux.. but i don't like to go wandering and getting troubles on installing it thanks in advance Max Italy

Aug 19, 2005, 06:50 PM	#11
beerad DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Go to www.ati.com, and navigate through ATI Customer Care > Drivers and Software > Linux > Linux x86_64 > Motherboards with ATI Graphics > You should see "ATI Proprietary Linux x86_64 Driver 8.16.20 for Radeon Xpress 200 Series". Download either the installer (big) or the xorg rpm (smaller). Install it, and depending on which kernel you have, it might succeed. Even if it fails it should install enough of the driver for 2d support. You can check /usr/share/fglrx/fglrx-install.log to see what it did, and it should install some documentation into /usr/share/doc/fglrx/ Edited to add Don't forget to run fglrxconfig after installing! Last edited by beerad; Aug 19, 2005 at 07:07 PM.

Aug 20, 2005, 01:40 PM	#12
elyzzz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	i have installed them successfully.. but seems to not recognize the chipset correctly... there is something to do to fix it?

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