The Open-Source ATI R500 Driver

[khakhovich]

Hey guys,
while i'm waiting for ATI to release something that works with FC7.... i tried the following instructions about avivo from:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=753&num=1

as all installation goes smooth no errors.... when i do startx... it complain that module avivo is not found.

have i missed anything?

thanks

[crumpet]

There was some comment in the past that this driver does not work with the apple mactel macbook pro. Is this still the case?

[domzanator]

Hey guys,
while i'm waiting for ATI to release something that works with FC7.... i tried the following instructions about avivo from:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=753&num=1

as all installation goes smooth no errors.... when i do startx... it complain that module avivo is not found.

have i missed anything?

thanks

Hey mate,
I've got good news for ya the new ATI drivers work on FC7; i got them working ealier today.

Here's something i posted earlier today

I've just got it up and running on Fedora 7 after afew alterations:-

Had to downgrade my x server-

su - (if your not already root)
wget http://ftp.cica.es/fedora/linux/core...6.fc7.i386.rpm
rpm -U --oldpackage xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.2.0-6.fc7.i386.rpm

Ran the (8.38.6) ati.run file; installed custom with kernel modules:-

Then there was a dependency that i was missing; which i grabbed with yum -
yum install compat-libstdc++-33

Once that is all done just add fglrx into you xorg file and away you go.

Good luck mate,
Dom

[Michael]

There was some comment in the past that this driver does not work with the apple mactel macbook pro. Is this still the case?

I have yet to see any commits in git for the Avivo driver showing that the Mac Intel ATI GPUs are yet to be supported. Hopefully soon though.

[glisse]

I have yet to see any commits in git for the Avivo driver showing that the Mac Intel ATI GPUs are yet to be supported. Hopefully soon though.

In fact i wasn't clear enough the macbook pro 15 will work (i got one) but th 17 won't (PLL are bad), when i was saying that mbp 15 was not working it's the external VGA output which is not working thanks to apple which wired the VGA 2 with DVI 1 (i believe they are the only one to do that) so to detect a monitor i have to probe as if it was VGA 1. I want to find an elegant solution to this but i fear i will need to add a workaround for mbp.

[crumpet]

Ahh Too bad . I have a 17" mbp.... if I can do anything to help in your tests just let me know as I long to have a working open source driver- I did try to install it but all it did was to flash the screen.

UPDATE: I could see that you have made various updates to the git.. so I reinstalled and today( June 28) it works on the 17" mbp! Now I can get the correct screen resolution of 1680x1050 ... something that was not possible with the vesa driver. Many thanks for all the great work you are doing - I wish I could help but I suspect that I am not competent enough.

[napopa]

Anyone managed to install avivo drivers on ubuntu feisy?

[d2kx]

I tried installing it on Debian yesterday, but I had problems with the ./autogen.sh part. I will try it on Fedora 7 today.

[domzanator]

I tried installing it on Debian yesterday, but I had problems with the ./autogen.sh part. I will try it on Fedora 7 today.

Hi all,
The avivo driver works on fedora 7; i guessing it would work on ubuntu as well. But i wouldn't move to avivo drivers as of it; still get alot of tiering. I would stick to ATI drivers for now.

Peace,
Dom

[danielpugh]

hi there, ive nearly got the avivo driver working. it compiles fine etc and when i change xorg.conf it seems to be close to working. The screen is distorted - black line in centre of screen and blue gradients on either side.

when i move the mouse i can see white traces. I think the problem is my laptop (lenovo t60 x1300/r500) has a 1024x768 screen (i think others have got it working on higher res screens).

Any ideas. ATI/fglrx and vesa work fine.

Dan

forgot to mention - its fedora8/ rawhide