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Christoph
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 03 Feb 2006
Posts: 4
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 Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject:
Installation of ATi drivers
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Hi list!
I downloaded the last ATI drivers (fglrx_6_8_0-8.25.18-1.i386.rpm) from
the official homepage. Since I have a Debian system, I converted the
RPM into a DEB using ALIEN as root.
$ alien fglrx_6_8_0-8.25.18-1.i386.rpm
I then installed the created deb-file using
$ dpkg -i fglrx-6-8-0_8.25.18-2_i386.deb
Averything worked fine till here. Because I didn't used the --scripts
parameter for alien, I hav to build the module myself.
I changed to the directory /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod and did a
../make.sh (after chmod u+x make.sh), which didn't reported any
problems:
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$ ./make.sh
ATI module generator V 2.0
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initializing...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15/build
SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15'
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15'
build succeeded with return value 0
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
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You must change your working directory to /lib/modules/fglrx
and then call ./make_install.sh in order to install the built module.
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As told, I changed to the given directory and did a ./make_install.sh
(also did an chmod before) and this is the result:
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$ ./make_install.sh
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel modules
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx
(/lib/modules/2.6.15/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): Operation not
permitted
failed.
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Everything was done as root, so there should'nt be a problem with
rights.
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$ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.15/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 466244 2006-06-13 15:00
/lib/modules/2.6.15/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko
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Also the file does exist and has read-rights for everyone (see above).
If I try to install the module manually using modprobe, I get the same
error.
Also trying to use GCC 3.3 or GCC 4.1 (used 4.0 for the above results)
gives me an "Invalid module format" error, since the kernel was build
using GCC 4.0.
Other information:
Kernel:
# uname -a
Linux schwerdtfeger 2.6.15 #2 SMP Wed Mar 8 15:21:37 CET 2006 i686
GNU/Linux
compiled using GCC-4.0
System: Debian Linux unstable/testing (Xorg 7.0).
Thanks in advance!
Sincerly,
Christoph |
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John-Paul Stewart
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Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 497
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Re: Installation of ATi drivers
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Christoph wrote:
| Quote: | Hi list!
I downloaded the last ATI drivers (fglrx_6_8_0-8.25.18-1.i386.rpm) from
the official homepage. Since I have a Debian system, I converted the
RPM into a DEB using ALIEN as root.
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Don't do that!
Download the (much larger) "driver installer" package
(ati-driver-installer-8.25.18-x86.run). Make it executable (chmod +x),
then "./ati-driver-installer-8.25.18-x86.run --buildpkg Debian/stable"
(or Debian/testing or Debian/unstable depending on which Debian variant
you're running) will create a number of native .deb packages.
You'll need to install the fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src (and
perhaps fglrx-control) packages. Then you'll need to build the fglrx
kernel module that matches your running kernel, which result in an
fglrx-kernel package that you can then install. (The fglrx-kernel-src
package puts the sources in /usr/src/modules/fglrx where it can be built
with make-kpkg if you build your kernels with make-kpkg.) |
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Christoph
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 03 Feb 2006
Posts: 4
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:35 am Post subject:
Re: Installation of ATi drivers
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Hi John-Paul!
John-Paul Stewart schrieb:
| Quote: | Christoph wrote:
Hi list!
I downloaded the last ATI drivers (fglrx_6_8_0-8.25.18-1.i386.rpm) from
the official homepage. Since I have a Debian system, I converted the
RPM into a DEB using ALIEN as root.
Don't do that!
Download the (much larger) "driver installer" package
(ati-driver-installer-8.25.18-x86.run). Make it executable (chmod +x),
then "./ati-driver-installer-8.25.18-x86.run --buildpkg Debian/stable"
(or Debian/testing or Debian/unstable depending on which Debian variant
you're running) will create a number of native .deb packages.
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I didn't tested it that way, because somebody told me about the
fglrx-package on the debian mirrors (apt-cache search fglrx), which
actually did work very well. Only thing is, that the resolution of
1280x960 couldn't be selected afterwards.
But, thanks for you help! |
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johndavid
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Joined: 22 Sep 2009
Posts: 1
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I have just recently tried out Ubuntu. I am considering switching back to windows though because i don't know how to download things in ubuntu. Is there like an installer like windows installer? or is there like a download manager that i could download? Respond quick. |
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