Re: [Dri-users] radeon 9600 on Linux

[Paladin <pa...@ne...>]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:55:00 -0600 (CST)
rap...@tl... wrote:

> I recently bought a Radeon 9600SE for my dual boot Linux/Win2k
> box.  I've tried both the open source and ati binary drivers, but
> am unable to use OpenGL to do 3D rendering.  Do the ATI binary
> drivers support this feature in Linux yet?  If so, how do I enable
> it?
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
> 

DRI does not support the Radeon 9600, so you'll have to go with the
ATI binary drivers.
I don't know which linux you are using, but you'll have to install
the rpm package or use alien to convert it to the necessary package.
Then you have to go to the /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod directory
and run ./make.sh and after that go to /lib/modules/fglrx and run
./make_install.sh. And that's about it.
I have the following line in /etc/modules.conf:

alias char-major-195 fglrx

but that was handled by installation scripts.
By the way, the package overwrites /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 so
you should think about backing it up. Anyway, you should only need
it in case DRI comes to support Radeon 9600 and you want to use DRI.
In that case if you didn't backup it's a good idea to reinstall the
mesa library package.

Good luck,

-- 
Paladin