Hello,

I've been trying to get 3D working on a amd64(pci-3e) mobo that has an ATI 1900
video card:
TI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Primary

I first setup the radeon driver and it crawled with bzflag (the 3D software I 
test with).

So I've been trying to get the ati-drivers to work. This web page seems to
indicate it should work and provide 3D accelerataton on linux:

https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.26.18.html#181179

I've been trying various version of x11-drm libdrm and ati-drivers.
Somehow I've gotten the drivers so hosed that starx does makes the screen
go black and I have to ssh in just to reboot. Killing off processes 
does not seem to be effective at regaining control of the screen.

Here the latest error I get,  revdep-rebuild does not help:

make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r4'
 * DRM module not built
 Source compiled.
 Test phase [not enabled]: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1

 Install ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 into
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1/image/ category x11-drivers
 * Installing fglrx module
install: cannot stat `fglrx.ko': No such file or directory

!!! ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1546:   Called dyn_install
  ebuild.sh, line 1020:   Called src_install
  ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1.ebuild, line 205:   Called linux-mod_src_install
  linux-mod.eclass, line 540:   Called die

11-base/x11-drm
 Installed:           20060608

 x11-drivers/ati-drivers
Installed:           8.30.3-r1

The above crash_log is when trying to downgrade to the ati-drivers
from 8.30.3-r1 to 8.27.10-r1.

Any ideas?

Assume nothing as the last few days has been an exercise if futility
for me....


James









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