Hardware drivers manager (Jockey-kde) shows nothing

[Goldie]

I'm trying to implement fglxr drivers. One of the things I like about Linux is the eye candy, unfortunately Linux drivers provide no 3d support. The card that I'm installing them for is a Radeon 240M. I open up Hardware device manager and it shows nothing, or rather "No proprietary drivers are installed". According to Synaptic and Adept, they are indeed installed...any ideas

[Rog131]

Re: Hardware drivers manager (Jockey-kde) shows nothing

Checklist (and results with my AMD (Ati) Radeon 9600 XT + AMD Catalyst 8.5)

In the konsole:

grep "Driver" /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "fglrx"

=> driver is fglrx

fglrx; AMD(Ati) proprietary driver

Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators
Video driver for the ATI Radeon and FireGL graphics accelerators.

Konsole:

fglrxinfo

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI RADEON 9600 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7537 Release

=> fglrx driver is working


Checking errors in the X server log

grep "(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

=> error log is clean

[Goldie]

Re: Hardware drivers manager (Jockey-kde) shows nothing

Thanks for the reply. Yours shows a little different than mine. When I grep | "driver" all I get is
Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
Driver synaptic
nothing about fglrx.

I run fglrxinfo and get:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20061018 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 NO-TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2

Segmentation fault

This tells me that the native ATI driver is not installed, yet Adept says it is....

Nothing in the error log...

Any further input is certainly appreciated Thanks.

[Rog131]

Re: Hardware drivers manager (Jockey-kde) shows nothing

I think that your system is using default driver, and it is Ati or Vesa.

Ati is:

X.Org X server -- ATI display driver
This driver for the X.Org X server (see xserver-xorg for a further description)
provides support for the ATI Mach, Rage, Radeon, and FireGL series. It
provides the 'atimisc', 'r128' and 'radeon' sub-drivers.

Note that this is not the same as the ATI-provided, binary-only, 'fglrx'
driver...

Hmm - probably the easiest way is to use Envy.

Envy

What is Envy?:

"Envy" is an application for Ubuntu Linux and Debian written in Python and PyGTK which will:
1) detect the model of your graphic card (only ATI and Nvidia cards are supported) and install the appropriate driver. However automatic detection can be overridden with the "Manual installation"
2) install the right driver for your card and all the required dependencies
3) configure the Xserver for you

Envy is in the Hardy repositories.


or if you are DIY or want more info:

> Binary DriverHowto / ATI (Ubuntu Community Documentation)
> Ubuntu Ati Installation wiki