ATI 8.26.18 Display Drivers Released

ati_logo ATI 8.26.18 Display Drivers Released Not sure whether this release will solve some of the problems that the users have been having, but let’s give this one a try and see. Phoronix has some coverage on the latest driver release.

Some of the changes in the fglrx 8.26.18 release include updated install scripts for Debian/Ubuntu/SuSE, added support for some missing cards (such as the 9600 and 9100 IGP), improve OpenGL display list performance on Radeon cards, X.Org 7 creates symlinks in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri to ATI files in /usr/lib/dri, and shortened the list of packages visible in the generate package menu to Red Hat and SuSE (additional packages can still be generated from the command-line installer flags). ATI Control Panel will also now report the current desktop setup. MaxGARTSize option has also been added to configure the ATI GART size.

Another change includes different xconf section identifiers. >>>>

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Comment by O on July 06, 2006

I followed your May 12th article: SUSE 10.1: ATI Drivers Installation explicitly. But I must say that things are not working graphically … especially, when I end a session.

Prior to the ATI install, glxinfo did display the Mesa drivers.

After the ATI upgrade, glxinfo and fglrxinfo both report:
Error: unable to open display (null)

startkde summarily reports:
xset and xsetroot: unable to open display “” ”
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
Error: Couldn’t attach to DCOP server!
startkde shutting down.

So … x also did not start.

After all of that, I know in part some of this
has to do with the resulting xorg.conf configuration.
I have managed to play with it to get improved results.

My system:
OS: SuSE 10.1 IA32
Apps and kernel are 32 bit only.
Environ: KDE
HP dv5139us laptop.
2.2GHz Athlon Turion 64 bit
2GB RAM
120GB Hard drive.
I am dual booting with Windows Vista … ha ha

About 76GB of HD space is dedicated to Suse.

This laptop also has a vga port, so, naturally
xorg.conf was configured in a dual monitor mode.

I asserted the xorg.conf.saxsave as xorg.conf
and rebooted …. well I was able to startx, however,
when changing sessions, switching users, rebooting, or
shutting down, the graphics would turn dark grey then that
serene blue (both had horizontal and vertical lines … no discernable data viewable).

I then decided to backup this “better” result and edit the
file with this data:

My lcd screen on my notebook is made by LGPhillips
at 1280×800 resolution at 24 bits.

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device[0]”
# Driver “radeon”
Driver “fglrx”
VendorName “ATI”
BoardName “Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)”
BusID “PCI:1:5:0″
Option “KernelModuleParm” “agplock=0″
Option “UseInternalAGPGART” “no”
Option “EnablePrivateBackZ” “no”
# Option “mtrr” “on”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group “video”
# Here I changed Mode from 0660 to 0666
Mode “0666″
EndSection

With the above changes, I can atleast end session, shutdown, and reboot without the screen dumping into the abyss, however, not without a little ungraceful screen jumbling, but it quickly restores the login prompt … hmmm.

Thought you’d might want to know what the experience was like for this person.

Thanks, for reading this,
oman.