Getting 3d support from 9600 pro under RH9

Giblet

Ok, I've looked all over the place, and found loads of solutions, but none seem to get 3d support working.

Redhat 9
2.4.20-8 kernel
Abit NF7-M
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600pro

Here's what I've tried.

I downloaded the Fglrx RPM from ATI for XFree86 4.3 (which I have installed)

I forced an install over the MESA drivers using -Uh --force.

Then did "sh make.sh" in the build_mod folder, and that worked fine, I then did "sh make_install.sh" in the fglrx folder and that worked fine. I then ran the fglrxconfig tool. I set everything up, and set xfree-dga to yes, and i tried internal agpgart to both yes and no, and then wrote to the XFree86Config-4 file.

Each time I restarted, 2D support was functional, but 3d wasn't. It still said I had the MESA driver.

I tired the agpgart nforce fix, but that had no effect.

I've been using Redhat for about 1 day now, so I'm not great at compiling kernels or anything.

People have got it working using my Kernel, but some people say use the 2.4.25 one, which I have no clue how to install.

Oh and I have one more thing to try, but I'm such a noob, how the HELL do I quit the Xwindow server to get into the console.

I'm supposed to do this in it.

modprobe agpgart
modprobe fglrx
startx

I've tried them in the terminal, and agpgart gives an error, and fglrx says nothing. I have a feeling that quitting the Xwindow server won't change anything, but I'd like to know how to do it anyway

slartibardfast

In a xterm session, su and type 'init 3' that will kill x for you. you'd be surprised loading modules on locked hardware(used by x etc.) isn't such a great idea!

zAbbo

Might be some help here - http://www.quake.ie/comments.asp?item=1779

You got nForce2 drivers working?

kernel sources installed?

Giblet

I got nvnet working and the sound.
I tried that kernel source, but it needs all these dependencies, most of which I got, but one eluded me.

I don't know if I should try -nodep yet.

Anyway, lots of people having this problem with redhat, so I'm getting Mandrake 9.2 soon. Hopefully it works!

slartibardfast

as far as I can remember the driver was just a diff against the stock 2.4.20 kernel. The best solution would be to upgrade to 2.4.25 which includes the agpgart driver.

Read a few howtos, and you'll be fine!

Although the mandrake idea is cool too, however it's a shame not to get a 2.6 based distro, maybe consider for fedora2(out soon) or mandrake10.

zAbbo

Getting nForce + Radeon + 3d in 2.6 doesnt seem easy, I`ll have a go at it at somestage

slartibardfast

Giblet here is a very nice howto:
http://www.rage3d.com/content/articles/atilinuxhowto/Linux_ATI.html#SECTION00041000000000000000

even covers the kernel stuff, which is nice!

baz did you try any of these ati patches?
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33737573

zAbbo

I`ve reverte to 2.4.22 for Quakelan, will attempt 2.6x later on

Giblet

Got it working under Mandrake 10 community edition with 2.6 kernel.

What I did was, install Mandrake 10, and played Quake 3. The end

zAbbo

Did you not have to install ati drivers

what are you getting in glx_gears (fgl_glxgears)

Giblet

I only get 360 in glxgears, but I get constant 125 fps in Quake3

nadir

now that ius wierd, I have a radeon 7000 in this machine here and it gives
3876 frames in 5.0 seconds = 775.200 FPS
3960 frames in 5.0 seconds = 792.000 FPS
3957 frames in 5.0 seconds = 791.400 FPS
I get around 3000 I think with my geforce ti4200 in the other box. I had terrible trouble trying to get fglrx working with any ati card. I tried 2 different types of mobility, and no joy, only open source drivers worked.
As a matter of interest, does it say DRI is on or off in glxinfo?

Giblet

DRI is off.

I think it's wierd all right. The games seem to be running off the ATI card, but when you run simple things like glxgears for glxinfo, says the MESA drivers are loaded. Strange.

All my display options say that ATI(fglrx) is my card, just not glxinfo.

nadir

maybe you need to tell red hat to use the ati drivers, like in gentoo, you just say opengl-update ati
or opengl-update nvidia
opengl-update xfree
maybe there is something similar in redhat, to tell it to use the appropriate libs. Maybe X apps are using software mode. but quake is automatically configed to use the correct hardware libs.

Giblet

Hehe, got xgears working properly.

~4000 fps in a window, ~250 fullscreen.

I have everything sorted now, except, for some annoying reason, sound won't work in fuhquake, but it does everywhere else.

Sound DID work in fuhquake before though, but I don't know whats changed!