fucking with fglrx
July 21, 2009 at 11:04 | Posted in Adventures | Leave a commentTags: ati, fglrx, xorg.conf
I’m going to first attempt to revise my xorg.conf by appending this line:
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
in order to fix my issues with the computer locking up when I play video with the fglrx driver.
If that fails, I am going to upgrade from
# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8087 Release
to “ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run”.
Let’s go <3
edit– success! the appended line wins <3
switching between ati and fglrx graphics drivers
May 13, 2009 at 12:20 | Posted in Scripts | Leave a commentTags: ati, fglrx, xorg.conf
Firstly, save two extra copies of your xorg.conf. Configure one to use the ati driver, and save it as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.ati, and configure the other to use the fglrx driver and save it as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx.
For switching to the ATI driver:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Putting ATI driver in use..."
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.ati /etc/X11/xorg.conf
killall X
For switching to the fglrx driver:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Putting fglrx driver in use..."
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
killall X
And then after either of these, you’d have to start up x again. (startx)
For determining which driver is in use:
#/bin/sh
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver | grep ati | grep -v ^#
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver | grep fglrx | grep -v ^#
I got side-tracked.
November 30, 2008 at 17:18 | Posted in Adventures | Leave a commentTags: ati, fglrx, gaming, wine, xrandr
So instead of Katamari, I will be testing the fglrx drivers. *groan*. But seeing as I just patched Imperishable Night for English, and found out that it runs out of the box on wine, I won’t settle for 2.5fps, and I won’t settle for that piece of shit fglrx driver I have installed currently. Btw, in reference to my last fglrx post, no, that new one was completely fucked and I couldn’t see a damn thing on my screen. I had to restart X and edit xorg.conf to use the ati driver. I guess I’ll just download a crapload of drivers and see which one works. Wish me luck.
Okay, 8.10 seems to be working okay so far…
bash-3.1$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8087 Release
bash-3.1$ glxinfo|grep render
direct rendering: Yes
Okay, it works well, ~60fps ftw. The only thing is that I can’t go fullscreen — so I’m using a virtual desktop in combination with xrandr to optimize this shit as best I can. I get the feeling though, that when my screen is supposedly 800×600, my virtual desktop gets smaller than /its/ supposed 800×600. >_> brb investigating with gimp.
I knew it. It’s 640×480. Fuck that shit.
Also, regular video playback crashes my computer with the fglrx driver. That’s irritating.
Here goes nothing…
November 22, 2008 at 16:54 | Posted in Adventures | Leave a commentTags: ati, fglrx
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
and I’m updating to “8.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver”, ati-driver-installer-8-11-x86.x86_64.run. The ati driver that I seem to have used in ~/tech/compile is ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64. So if this one fails, I’ll reinstall that one.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.552
here we go…
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