ati video drivers (how to install.....

In simplest terms, you would, as root:

dpkg -i fglrx_4_3_0-8.29.6-i386.deb

"You have two labs?"
"Each has its place. At the university, I try to please the Federal Government. Here, I negotiate with God."

MEPIS already has the fglrx driver built in! It automatically connects to ATI's website, automatically installs it, and automatically configures it without you having to lift a finger. All you have to do is restart and you're set up.

Read how to do this on the MEPIS Knowledge Base
http://kb.tafusion.org/link.php?id=32

SAM
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thanks for your reply....

I tried using that command. and got errors during install,
and in processing the fglrx......

now what ???

i am ready to throw in the towel on this

it is not worth the effort.

bob

thanks for your reply....

i tried the knowledge base like u suggested...

error message ... command multilities could not be found

don't have a clue as to what to do next. exept install
nvidia card or go back to Windows....

bob

Simply follow instructions here.
http://kb.tafusion.org/link.php?id=32

are you trying to get 3d on ati? or are you just putting the ati driver on for the experience?
i have a laptop with an ati card, and it plays tux-racer (the install is too old for it to be renamed ppracer)
as i don't play quake or ut i'm fine, thanks.

the other thing is you didn't tell which version of mepis you were using, now it isn't 6.0 because you don't have mutilities.
sam assumed you had 6.0
have you oscenter? that's the old place where video cards could be tweaked.

thanks for replying ...this has been on heck of an experience.

I have been trying to get my dvd player to work and the
tv tuner card working.... I have tried to use xawtv but
didnot have any luck. the little icon jumps up and down
and thats it....

it looks like i finally got the driver in. 3d tux works
fine. now i am able to play dvds .now the latest problem
is to get the cd working right...

i have tried to mount it and get the error message
"wrong fs type; may have too many files systems mounted;
check to see if media is installed correctly....
i had this working at one time.

thanks again

bob

Do a

cat /etc/motd

a

cat /etc/lsb-release

and a

cat /etc/fstab

for me; and paste the results here, if you would, please.

"You have two labs?"
"Each has its place. At the university, I try to please the Federal Government. Here, I negotiate with God."

I also have a problem with a second CD drive. It sees my drive and everying even when I put in a CD. But when I open it it says cannot open folder cdrom.

It occasionally works with one or the other but not both (this is after being mounted). It's got me stumped. When going through the link of "media:/" my top CDROM shows up as media:/hda and my bottom one shows up as media:/hdb.

Here is the code you asked for above from that other guy.

<br />
sam@1[~]$ cat /etc/motd<br />
The Magic of MEPIS TM</p>
<p>Most of the programs included with MEPIS Linux products are freely<br />
redistributable; the exact distribution terms for each program<br />
are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright</p>
<p>Unless otherwise stated in an official EULA,<br />
MEPIS Linux products come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY,<br />
to the extent permitted by applicable law.<br />
sam@1[~]$ cat /etc/lsb-release<br />
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu<br />
DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06<br />
DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper<br />
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS"<br />
sam@1[~]$ cat /etc/fstab<br />
# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab<br />
/dev/sda6 / reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 0 0<br />
none /proc proc defaults 0 0<br />
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0<br />
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0<br />
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0<br />
# Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option<br />
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0<br />
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0<br />
/dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0<br />
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660,udf noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0<br />
sam@1[~]$<br />

SAM

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I am working on a system now that I have a Hauppage TV Card and an ATI Radeon VE video card (this has been something I have tried to get going for what seems like more than a year). I am working on getting Mepis setup with the ATI drivers. I plan on setting up this system in my living room as my media center (I already have one, but I want to play some more). I have been reading about the ATI drivers, and there seems to be quite a bit of problems. As I recall from an older install with a previous version, I didn't have all of these problems (but I wasn't worried about the 3D desktop, or gaming). Is 6.0 going to offer me a different experience. Please give me all of the warnings before I fully dive into this.

Joe Pearce

The student is not above the teacher
The servant is not above the master
The student shares the teacher's fate
The servant shares the master's

http://www.joepearce.com

Joe have you tried setting up the ATI drivers built into MEPIS? Look at the post above by clicking...
http://www.mepis.org/node/11552#comment-42302
Try reading that article and setting up your ATI drivers. If that didn't work than let me know your problem and I'll tell you how to fix it.

Also what type of ATI card are you using (so I can check to see if your ATI card is compatable with fglrx). Because my laptop has an ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility (128MB dedicated) and it's not supported by fglrx at all.

Try those things and get back
SAM!

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The card is an ATI RADEON VE 7000. It is an older 32MB card with TV out. The goal is to have a media center setup in my living room that is more powerful. My wife pointed out to me last night that I may be better using Windows and Mepis on it due to school work. I also reminder her that we could just terminal service into our machines, we could just get up and walk to our desk, etc. then it went on to and fro. This is a project for the entire family, thus gaming come up.

So I have decided to go the virtual machine route. It seems the easiest route to go and makes me admit my wife is much smarter than me most of the time (don't tell her because her head will get too big for be to look at her). I get all of the Microjunk software for free (another thing she pointed out...) so I will be using the MS virtual machine software. After I get windows setup, I will install Mepis in a virtual machine. I would dual boot, but there is the problem of having to go through the boot process.

I want to use the Linux PVR stuff and the Windows stuff. I may get to count this as research too, so what the hey. I have installed the ATI drivers before on older versions of Mepis, but I haven't played with ATI stuff in 6.0 at all. I am not experiencing problems, but I have noticed many other people have. That is why I posted here to get any warning information before I began so that I could be prepared. I have read almost everything there is to offer on the subject at one point or another. I just believe in the old boy scout adage of "be prepared." Thanks for posting the links. I will use them. I am preparing to start on this new track tonight. Again, thanks.

Joe Pearce

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The servant is not above the master
The student shares the teacher's fate
The servant shares the master's

http://www.joepearce.com

Your card is not supported. Meaning you can't run the fglrx driver...
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.29.6.html#173867

Radeon® 9500 series is the earliest it goes.
I recommend you getting a new card. nVidia would be the best option because Linux has better support for it.
Sorry,
SAM

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Sam,

Is my HP Pavilion zv6201cl supported by the ATL fglrx driver?

Microprocessor  2.0 GHz AMD Athlon™64 Processor 3200+   
Video Graphics  ATI RADEON® XPRESS 200M IGP     
Video Memory    128MB DDR (dedicated)   
Display         15.4” WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) Display  

I went looking on the ATI web site, but could not find it. I tried installing fglrx from mutilities on the Simply Mepis v60 live CD, but only got a black screen upon reboot. Had to re-install the standard driver. 

I would like 3D acceleration to run flightgear on the notebook.

Thanks,
Warren Light

Why not try THIS link?

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.29.6.html#173867

I found it there, no problem!!

Michael
=====================================================
"Reality? Oh, yeah. That has nothing to do with me."

Like Mike said,
You your card is supported Warren. Although here is a more direct link to the integrated product support.
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.29.6.html#179769
Radeon® Xpress 200 series (your card is in that series).

At least you don't have my luck. My laptop has the Mobility 9700. And if you look in the mobility products...
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.29.6.html#172394
It skips from Radeon® 9600 to 9800. That is moronic.
SAM

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Thanks Mike and Sam, for the links. I downloaded the fglrx driver and the installer. The instructions were chock full of conditional statements that I could not evaluate, so I just heldmy breath and entered the command(as root):
sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.29.6.run
and rebooted.

I don't notice any differences. glxgears still chuggs just as slowly. Flightgear still chokes and sputters.

Was there something else that I was supposed to do before or after?

Also, the new ATI Control does nothing: "Driver does not provide the FireGL X11 extensions."

Here is a post above that I think you'll be interested in.

Why doesn't anyone use the built in function to compile fglrx? It's one of MEPIS's best features. I've got it posted all over the forum.

Warren I think you'll have better luck with this.
SAM

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Thanks Sam,

I have already posted that I tried the auto-install method found on the live CD, and that upon reboot, I got a black screen. I had hoped that the download from ATI would be newer and work.

I have seen all of your postings. Thanks for your efforts to enlighten Mepis users. I had actuall tried it the first time I installed v6.0. It just doen't work on my hardware. In the meantime, my notebook runs on the standard driver. And I czn run flightgear on my older desktop PC with nVidia.

ok sorry Warren,
I just wasn't sure so I kinda drilled it to ya b/c I didn't know if you saw it.
SAM

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Back-up that fstab file, Sam, and see what this does fo you--if anything.

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/sda6 / reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660,udf noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1 iso9660,udf noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
# Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0

Let me know how it goes, if you would.

"You have two labs?"
"Each has its place. At the university, I try to please the Federal Government. Here, I negotiate with God."

EnigmaOne you are my hero. And I've learned something new about Linux. This problem has been solved and should probably be split into a separate category since it has nothing to do with the problem of this article.

SAM

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