drivers for radeon x1950 pro

[Wail]

Hello,
I'm loking for drivers for my x1950 pro cards, but I can't find them. And radeon drivers (from xorg or from ati) don't seem to recognize my card. Any one knows when these drivers will come (for x1950 pro)?

[SheeEttin]

Re: drivers for radeon x1950 pro

Try the fglrx driver.

[Wail]

Re: drivers for radeon x1950 pro

Which one exactly? I already have xorg-driver-fglrx.

[SheeEttin]

Re: drivers for radeon x1950 pro

"sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", selecting fglrx when it prompts for a driver.

[Wail]

Re: drivers for radeon x1950 pro

I think it's already done. This is the second part of my xorg.conf.

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier  "Acer AL1714"
	Option	  "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	Option	  "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	  "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	  "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier "Generic Video Card"
	Driver   "vesa"
	BusID    "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Driver   "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Default Screen"
	Device   "Generic Video Card"
	Monitor  "Acer AL1714"
	DefaultDepth   24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   1
		Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   4
		Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   8
		Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   15
		Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   16
		Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   24
		Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
	Device   "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Monitor  "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	DefaultDepth   24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport  0 0
		Depth   24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode     0666
EndSection

[SheeEttin]

Re: drivers for radeon x1950 pro

Well, that one looks a little funky to me. Probably a result of aticonfig. I personally have never used it.
You might have success merely by changing the "Driver "vesa" " line to fglrx, but, like I said, there's a few funky lines. I highly suggest reconfiguring.

Whether you do or don't reconfigure, restart X, then post the results of "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE && cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW".

[Wail]

Re: drivers for radeon x1950 pro

I've reconfigured, my card is recognized now 8) and glxgears run fast at last. Thank you for your advice!
Here are EE and WW

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported

[SheeEttin]

Re: drivers for radeon x1950 pro

(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

Uh...
Right. Add these lines to xorg.conf!

Section "Extensions"
 option "Composite" "false"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
 option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

I put them right below the "Module" section.

And just a note, glxgears is NOT a benchmark. Don't use it as such.
And one more thing, you might want to remove the lines referencing "wacom", if only to make the errors go away. There are three "InputDevice" sections and three lines lower down in the "ServerLayout" section.