Getting ATI's latest drivers to work on Ubuntu Dapper is a PITA!

[FragTek]

So it took me hours this morning to get the ATI drivers installed and CCC working properly in Dapper. Anyone else had to undergo this task? My gosh, I haven't had that much trouble with a simple driver isntallation in a long long time.

The installer program would run through like it was supposed to but wouldn't actually update the Xorg.conf file or copy the correct files which was annoying me. I found a guide on doing everything manually and that didn't work either and chewed up another hour.

Finally I found a guide that gave one really good hint that was able to get me going, and now I finally have my native screen res going and everything is rocking good on Ubuntu. Sound card was picked right up and sounds great too.

I would have to say that 2D screen rendering in an X-Windows environment almost looks better than Windows itself. I've really missed the enjoyment of running Linux. Glad that I got it back going. OSX86 will be ready to install in a couple of days and the Tri-Boot should be complete.

Cheers!

 

[FarFarAway]

I always say to myself that I should get into running Linux but never get round to it

Screenies etc?

 

[macgamesrule]

Dunno about ATI and Dapper, but the nVidia drivers included with Fiesty Fawn work pretty well. I have the effects from Beryl/Compiz

 

[FarFarAway]

Dunno about ATI and Dapper, but the nVidia drivers included with Fiesty Fawn work pretty well. I have the effects from Beryl/Compiz

nVidia historically support linux a lot better than ATI do tbh

 

[equk]

Why are you using dapper?

feisty ftw

blog.equk.co.uk

Installing the ATI and NVIDIA drivers for 3D acceleration is even easier than before on ubuntu feisty. All you need to to is use the new Restricted Drivers Manager.

Just go to System > Administration > Restricted Drivers Manager

You will get a dialog showing whichever card you have or any restricted drivers you might need and it's as easy as selecting which one you want and restarting the machine.

 

[FragTek]

Why are you using dapper?

feisty ftw

I only had Dapper on disc, and with my FAP download limits it's hard to find the time to download large apps/OS's

 

[equk]

I only had Dapper on disc, and with my FAP download limits it's hard to find the time to download large apps/OS's

Bah

I have done it on dapper before but it didn't take me hours to do.

I think last time I did it, it was as easy as installing the nvidia drivers.

 

[FragTek]

Bah

I have done it on dapper before but it didn't take me hours to do.

I think last time I did it, it was as easy as installing the nvidia drivers.

The latest ATI drivers don't install correctly through the included GUI which sucks. You have to do everything manually and create all of the seperate Debian packages to the Dapper kernel specs. It was a royal PITA.

Actually everything went smooth up until trying to configure the driver for Xorg, the aticonfig tool kept deleting the xorg.conf file....

 

[equk]

The latest ATI drivers don't install correctly through the included GUI which sucks. You have to do everything manually and create all of the seperate Debian packages to the Dapper kernel specs. It was a royal PITA.

Actually everything went smooth up until trying to configure the driver for Xorg, the aticonfig tool kept deleting the xorg.conf file....

I used to do it that way anyway

never used the GUI thing

 

[FragTek]

I always say to myself that I should get into running Linux but never get round to it

Screenies etc?

 

[FarFarAway]

Looking slick Frag

 

[equk]

looks like the default setup

still, the number of drives and contacts is quite amazing

 

[Nagaru]

Nice one Frag, I have gone through the same thing, just be happy that you are doing it now and don't have an X200M. Looks nice Frag but you should get a new gtk theme, one of my favorite features of gnome. If you want, I could send you a feisty fawn alternative install disk, that should be able to upgrade you, if synaptic doesn't work.

 

[FragTek]

Nice one Frag, I have gone through the same thing, just be happy that you are doing it now and don't have an X200M. Looks nice Frag but you should get a new gtk theme, one of my favorite features of gnome. If you want, I could send you a feisty fawn alternative install disk, that should be able to upgrade you, if synaptic doesn't work.

That would be much appreciated mate.... I hate having to download stuff over this botched connection!

 

[Nagaru]

Ok, hit my up with your address, and I will send the disk, any other things you need?

 

[PV5150]

Nvidia and ATI drivers under Linux

 

[Nagaru]

:worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: I have wanted to overclock/underclock my card in Linux thank you sooo much.

 

[equk]

:worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: I have wanted to overclock/underclock my card in Linux thank you sooo much.

All I did with my old GPU was overclock it using the BIOS, then it doesn't matter what OS I boot into as it is always overclocked.

Nvidia and ATI drivers under Linux

I'm pretty sure the drivers (esp the ATI ones) for linux have changed loads since 2005 tho

I know the nvidia drivers location for FSAA & SBA changed about 6months+ ago. Probably quite a while before aswell as it changed from export to being in the module options and then the module options changed directory due to kernel changes.

from my old site:

May 08, 2005

nano -w /etc/modules

nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1 NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1

the nvidia line should already be there so just add the options to the end of it smiley now on reboot you should have sba and fw

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status

to check settings have been applied

further back - on the same site:

January 27, 2005

edit /etc/modules.d/nvidia

add or uncomment

options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1

will probably need to re-do after doing a emerge nvidia-kernel or updating the nvidia drivers as the file gets overwritten

To check the status of the driver do - "cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status"

 

[Nagaru]

All I did with my old GPU was overclock it using the BIOS, then it doesn't matter what OS I boot into as it is always overclocked.

I would do that, but it is a laptop, with built in graphics, and by overclocking I mean brining to to the standard spec of 350MHz instead of 300MHz.

 

[equk]

I would do that, but it is a laptop, with built in graphics, and by overclocking I mean brining to to the standard spec of 350MHz instead of 300MHz.

Ah ic

I wouldn't dare overclock my laptop as it gets hot enough as it is