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**SheeEttin** · Dec 24, 2007, 09:01 AM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Originally posted by asdinnie

using the ati (vanilla) driver
[...]
My suspicion is that the install of the graphics driver/OpenGL is not quite right in my install.

Bingo. You need the fglrx driver.
I wrote an installation script for it, but there's a new version of the driver out. Let me just update the script and then I'll post it.

EDIT: Hooray! They fixed the gamma! They also claimed to fix the memory leak, but I haven't tested that yet...
Anyway, get the script here.

**asdinnie** · Dec 24, 2007, 09:07 AM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Thanks SheeEttin for your prompt reply.

I'll be out here somewhere with bated breath !

Best wishes

Andy

PS Is it kosher that Kubuntu picks the AGP card up as a 9200 when the sticker on it says 9250?!

**asdinnie** · Dec 24, 2007, 04:45 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Thanks SheeEttin very much for the prompt script.
You'd put many commercial organisations to shame!

Just a really thick question. How do I actually execute the script?
Going into Konsole & typing "sudo fglrx_gutsy.txt I get "sudo: fglrx_gutsy.txt: command not found".
However its in the same directory! Permissions are fine too as the default user.
Curiously I have the same problem with another .sh file in the same folder (Desktop).

Any advice here would be appreciated.

Cheers

Andy

PS The best wishes of the festive season to you.

**lingenfr** · Dec 24, 2007, 06:17 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

In case sheeetin is not watching, how about this:

sudo mv fglrx_gutsy.txt flgrx_gutsy.sh
sudo chmod +x fglrx_gutsy.sh
./fglrx-gutsy.sh

Good luck.

**crl6904** · Dec 25, 2007, 12:46 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

i have a 9200SE, and in trying to get better timing, I had to reinstall my OS. I had some problems with the video (probably X11) and couldn't get it back.

hopefully, you don't need to, but keep it in mind while you try various options (whether you use proprietary or open source solutions)

good luck
crl6904

**asdinnie** · Dec 25, 2007, 05:24 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Hi crl6904, lingenfr & SheeEttin

Thanks for your info & comments.

Got the driver to download & install fine.
The issue now is getting X to reboot using the new fglrx driver!

1. I used dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg & went through the options (bit of a newbie/novice at X).
X failed to load on reboot. Back to the common garden command line prompt!

2. So I reverted to the prior working version of xorg.conf & just changed the two driver lines in the file as follows:

Section "Device"
Driver "ati" to "fglrx"

Section "device" #
Driver "ati" to "fglrx"

Same problem.
X failed to load on reboot. Back to the common garden command line prompt!

Have I missed something (eg. the device options?)?

I have attached the relevant xorg.conf file (where X works - before changes) as a txt file, in case this helps.

Can anyone please provide some guidance here. X configuration is clearly not my forte!

Many thanks

Cheers

Andy

Attached Files

xorg.txt (4.6 KB, 84 views)

**lingenfr** · Dec 25, 2007, 06:01 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

You've got that xorg.conf awfully hosed. I would suggest that you delete or rename it and run your dpkg command again.

**asdinnie** · Dec 25, 2007, 06:23 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Hi lingenfr

Actually the one I posted works, but with the old (slow, vanilla) driver.
Does the file look that bad from reading it (its the default one that resulting from the system install)?

If I need to run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" again, any hints on making it work fine this time please?
(eg. make a note of the settings in the old, working xorg.conf file).

At the moment it seems that using the new ati (fglrx) driver is the thing stopping X from booting.
This is because it is the only factor common to both configs.

Many thanks

Andy

**lingenfr** · Dec 25, 2007, 08:25 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Are you getting any errors when X pukes? Try the following and post the results.

more /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep EE
more /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep WW

That will look through your X log and list the errors EE and the warnings WW.

**asdinnie** · Dec 25, 2007, 09:04 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Hi

Here is the output of the X errors/warnings.
Hope this helps.

Cheers

Andy

--

asd@dad:~$ more /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep EE
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
asd@dad:~$ more /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep WW
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
(WW) RADEON(0): No crtc mode list for crtc 1,continuing with desired mode
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "MergedFB" is not used
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 202.50MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing

**lingenfr** · Dec 25, 2007, 09:46 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Well... others seemed to know, so I didn't check. I don't think your card is supported by fglrx. Check out this post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3999098

I searched through several sets of posts with rather mixed results, but it appears that current versions of the driver no longer support your card. I have read a couple of posts that say that you can get 3d working with the ati driver. Read the thread above and you might contact the poster who seemed to have the solution. Good luck.

**crl6904** · Dec 26, 2007, 02:10 AM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Are you using DRI? If I'm not wrong, it isn't supported.

(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

This is the problem that I had with ATI & Fiesty :

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3087210.0

I'm not sure if it will help, but at least you can get an idea of the problem and see if can avoid having to reinstall gutsy.

**SheeEttin** · Dec 26, 2007, 11:34 AM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

Sorry for lack of replies, Christmas kind of happened. :P

Anyway, according to the fglrx FAQ, "The ATI Proprietary Linux driver currently supports Radeon 8500 and later AGP or PCI Express graphics products". Your card is later, so...

And, by the output you posted there, you're using the ati/radeon driver, which is not what you want.
I'd delete/move your current xorg.conf and do another "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", and make sure that you pick fglrx as your driver. Reboot.
If you have no display when you boot, get a terminal (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1), log in, execute "startx", and post what it says.

**Rog131** · Dec 26, 2007, 01:41 PM

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PRO - 3D graphics at snails pace

fglrx support by AMD:

ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.28.8 Software Release Note
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...ux_8.28.8.html

The ATI Proprietary Linux driver is designed to support the following ATI desktop products:

Radeon® X1900 series... Radeon® 8500 series

XOrg 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, or 7.1; XFree86 version 4.3

ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.29.6 Software Release Note
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...ux_8.29.6.html

The ATI Proprietary Linux driver is designed to support the following ATI desktop products:

Radeon® X1900 series... Radeon® 9500 series

=> as said in the fglrx wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fglrx

Version 8.29.6 ends support for Radeon R200 based cards (i.e., the series of Radeon 8500 through 9250).

About ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.28.8 and Kubuntu Gutsy.
I don't think that 8.28.8 supports X.org 7.2.

Latest AMD Proprietary Linux Release Notes (Catalyst 7.12):
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...712_linux.html

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