On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:38, James wrote: > 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
Yep. This is a known problem and there have been bugs open on it for a while. Not sure why it isn't fixed yet, my uneducated guess is upstream. Upstream in this case is very poor at the linux side of their software... https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156876 -- 99% of politicians make the rest look bad. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
