On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 3:50 am, Kelly McCormick wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is there anybody out there with some experience with this card > under ML9.1? At a minimum, I would like to get the 3D acceleration > and the TV tuner functions working. It is my understanding that the > ATI drivers will provide GL acceleration but will do nothing for > any of the other functions of this card and that the Gatos drivers > can provide atleast nearly full funtionality to this card under > linux. I have also found reports that the ATI drivers may work > better for the 3D acceleration than the ati.2 gatos drivers > provide? Any thoughts or experience on this subject? Also, is it > possible to mix and match the drivers to use ATI's own drivers for > 3D Accelation and the Gatos drivers for the TV tuner, tivo > functions, remote, etc.? I have also noted that ATI's driver rpm > "fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.5.1.i586.rpm" is built for glibc 2.2 and their > check.sh script reports that I have glibc 2.3, as I understand it > this shouldn't be a problem, but I'm wondering if there is a better > rpm to use? or a better solution? During my attempts to decipher > the gatos website I have gotten the impression that these drivers > are intended to be used with XFree86 version 4.1.0 and work atleast > somewhat with 4.2.0, what is this going to mean to me since I am > running 4.3.0? The more information I find, the more confused I > become on this entire video driver subject. If someone can point me > in the right direction here, I'd really appreciate it. What I'm > really looking for is any advice on how to get the best results > with this card, and a heads up on any problems that I can expect to > run into. If there are any good information sources on this that > could help clear some of these things up, please let me know where > to find them. below are the results of running the check.sh script > from the ATI website, if there is any further information that I > can provide that will help with this discussion, please let me know > what you need and since it's likely that I don't know, how to find > that info. > > > =================================================================== >== ATI Technologies > =================================================================== >== Checking which OS you're running... > uname reports 'Linux' version '2.4.21-0.13mdk', architecture > 'i686'. Object format is 'ELF'. > libc version is '6.3'. > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 is installed. > > No package available for glibc 2.3. Try fglrx-glibc22.tgz > Binary package name is 'fglrx-glibc21.tgz' > > Thanks in advance for any and all help provided. I know I'm asking > for a lot of info here but as I said, now that I have been looking > into this for a while, I am no longer even sure where to start. > RTFM one too many times I guess. > Try here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ViDeo
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