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Old 08-17-2003, 06:36 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Gaming Radeon 9800 Pro Drivers needed for Linux

Good morning!

I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card, but no Linux drivers! ack!!
Red Hat 9 uses VESA compatible drivers, works, but is terrible. I want to change my screen refresh over 60 and I don't think I can do that with the VESA.

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Old 08-17-2003, 06:44 AM   #2 (permalink)
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http://dri.sourceforge.net is where I get my Radeon drivers.

Some use the drivers from http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html but I'm not sure if they support the 9800.
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Old 08-20-2003, 04:48 PM   #3 (permalink)
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or you can download them from

www.ati.com

heehee

i got mine working in suse and redhat, but i cant get my 9600 working ... oh well
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nice thought, but....

ati.com doesn't have LINUX drivers for the Radeon 9800 Pro.

Actually, nobody seems to have them.... but thanks for your suggestions anyway. Maybe later they will be developed. (pretty likely!)



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Old 08-22-2003, 08:03 PM   #5 (permalink)
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they have drivers, but its a pain to install unless you have some experience with linux and your distribution.

go to Rage3d the forums contains a lot of information how to get your ATI 9800 working under linux even with 3d acceleration.

Right now im working on MDK 9.1, If i get them to work I will let you know.
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Old 08-27-2003, 10:20 AM   #6 (permalink)
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This worked for me on a mandrake install, maybe it will work with red hat.

1 Get the nvidia patch for kernel 2.4.21 (the one on the nvidia site is 2.4.20) (forum post) (I found it on this post, if its not there, look for this patch on other posts), get the firegl drivers from the schneider digital site.

2. Install Mandrake 9.1

3. After install completes and you are in linux again, install the kernel sources, they are on cd3.

4. copy 2.4.21 patch to usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk, and type the follwoing under usr/src/linux-2.4.21-013mdk

patch -p1 < linux-2.4.21-agpgart.diff

5. After the patch is installed we need to configure the support, type

Xconfig, here under processor choose Athlon, look for character devices (/dev/agpgart) search for Nvidia Chipset Support, choose yes.

6. Go to console mode, log as root and build the kernel type the following in this order.

make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install

After all of this finishes around 30-40 minutes depends on machine speed.

7. Reboot and choose 2421-13mdkcustom on the boot screen.

8. log as root and type the following.
/sbin/insmod agpgart (this will load the agpgart module)

9. Install the Schneider driver type
rpm -i --force fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.0.i586.rpm

10 Follow the directions on the error file to go to the build_mod directory and type.

./make.sh
./make_install.sh

11 Run fglrxconfig put your config when it asks for agpgart support say "YES".

12. Type /sbin/insmod fglrx

13. log any user and type startx.

then you are all set, the only thing left is to make the modules for agpgart and fglrx load at boot time, but that i havent done yet, everytime i boot the computer, I type as root
/sbin/insmod agpgart
/sbin/insmod fglrx

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Kids hmmmmm

Why would I load an NVIDIA driver for an ATI Radeon card? They are fundamentally different hardware.

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Old 08-28-2003, 11:48 AM   #8 (permalink)
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well because that its a how to, for an Nforce 2 board like the asus an78x dx, it has problems with the agpgart, what make the ati drivers not working properly. the patch it to make all non nvidia brand to work with linux.

If you have a Pentium processor or board then skip those steps.

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hmmmm

Thanks, but I don't have an Nforce motherboard... and I don't feel comfortable using an Nvidia driver on an ATI card.
Have the other users had success doing this?

yes, I have an AMD processor.

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check www.rage3d.com, you will find tons of info there, lucky you will see a similar configuration than yours.

an the nvidia patch its not a driver for video, its for the AGP chipset.

What chipset you have a KT400?
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