Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > sandie wrote: > >> Luke Yelavich wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:24:30PM EST, sandie wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> My Nvidia 7950x2 died friday :-( >>>> >>>> I have always used Nvidia, but since Ati now have gone open with the >>>> specs to their cards, I wanted to support their great initiative and >>>> that instalation would be fairly simple. so I bought a ATI 4830 and to >>>> my big supprise... Argh ! >>>> >>>> Is there really no support for Radeon 4830 in the realtime-kernel ??? >>>> >>>> >>> What version of Ubuntu are you using? If its intrepid, when using the >>> generic kernel, are you using the proprietary ATI drivers? >>> >>> If yes to both questions, then I believe there maybe something wrong with >>> the installation/setup of the ATI drivers and the realtime kernel. Without >>> having any new ATI hardware to test with here myself, I can't be sure of >>> whats going on. All I can suggest is to attempt to re-install >>> fglrx-kernel-source, as well as installing the linux-headers-rt package, >>> which should allow the kernel module for the ATI drivers to be built. >>> >>> Hope this helps >>> >>> Luke >>> >>> >> Thanks for your answer >> >> I have tried both opensource and propriotary drivers in Ipex and Hardy >> and both works fine with the generic kernel, but when i try in realtime >> i have not been so lucky. >> I can't get any installer to work, tried the opensource solution listed >> here : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver and the >> propriotary installer from ATI. the "system-> administration->hardware >> drivers" doesn't even see the card. >> >> > The project's home page is here: > http://www.radeonhd.org/ > > You may need to download build this yourself. > Of particular interest is this section: > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd#head-f79351b4e2b19fad40529ce297ac2d2a1e90354c > > This driver is very much a moving target. It looks promising but I am > holding off. Right now the only video device that I will buy is an > Intel. It may not have anywhere near the performance of the ATI and > Nvidia offerings, but it has a proper upstream driver, which for me is > far more important. I do not have any of the supported hardware so I > cannot be of more use. > > >> Right now I'm using Ubuntustudio 8.04, but later today I plan to split >> my HD and install a Ubuntu 8.10 (generic) on the first half and >> Ubuntustudio 8.04 (rt) on the other half. >> Luckly I also got a new motherboard/cpu/ram, so instalation of >> Ubuntustudio only takes about 15 minutes :-) >> > > I had heard that Intrepid had a version of radeonhd shipping with it. I > do not know which version they shipped or how well it works. Given the > pace of development, i would guess that the Intrepid driver is already > stale. > > For the record, there are two 3d drivers for ATI hardware. There is the > classic binary blob called fglrx. This is the propritary driver and it > supports older ATI hardware as well. The newer radeonhd driver only > supports the latest ATI devices but it is open source, much like the > Intel driver. Check the radeonhd site for more info. > > Hth, > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJkzX0wRXgH3rKGfMRAgKpAKCTxiG35lGfAVbFIkp6bF2pzIuZXwCfa2o5 > WbzZyal44r/+0o3lBPnMofQ= > =aByv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > It works :-) The one in the repositorie did not support my card, but I found this simple guide that did the trick : http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9951
Thank you SO much for pointing me in the right direction :-) /Sandie -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
