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Offline ztealmax

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Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« on: July 01, 2012, 01:48:06 PM »
Hi all couls someone point me to guide or just type here how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
and get it working on tiny core linux, ive installed xfce4 and got it working
now i just need a working Radeon driver, and yes iknow it should work ok out-of-the-box
but i would love to have catalyst radeon driver working or an alterarnative driver so i can
get opengl working as it should

so if anyone could just specify eactly what packages i need for example
- firmware-radeon?
- catalyst?
- etc

Thank you all so much in advance

Sincerally
Martin

tried the flglrx downloaded and followed what to type in concole but got this

Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org (152.19.134.43:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
depmod.tcz: OK
ati-fglrx-module-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz not found!


log>
Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org (152.19.134.43:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
depmod.tcz: OK
ati-fglrx-module-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz not found!
« Last Edit: July 01, 2012, 02:24:40 PM by ztealmax »

Offline floppy

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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 02:44:42 PM »
load the Xorg-7.6.tcz and xf86-video-ati.tcz  ?
(a guess; I dont have a radeon, only nvidia, mga400 and intel)
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Offline ztealmax

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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 03:33:41 PM »
Hi Floppy, im not sure im loading the xorg correctly ;)

Could u do me a huge favor and email me your xorg config file
and onboot.lst and anyother file thats usefull? iknow you dont runt ati but i can get hints from your configs :-)

Sincerally
Martin
My email:
martin.svensson@ztealmax.se

Offline ztealmax

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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 03:51:40 PM »
btw how can i alter xorg.conf.vesa so it loads ati driver instead of vesa?

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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 05:28:35 PM »
Fglrx / catalyst has not supported your card since 2006.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2012, 06:33:56 AM »
Kind of explains alot ;) hmm maybe possible to get hold of an old version of fglrx

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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2012, 07:34:43 AM »
Fglrx from 2006 will not work on any current kernel nor X. If you must use it, you'll need to use a distro from 2006.

To use the open 3d on TC, you'd install xf86-video-ati and Xorg-7.6-3d (alternatively, Xorg-7.5).
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2012, 10:35:40 AM »
Thank you all for quick responses :)

I will try that, seems like the best solution (the only solution) ;)

anyway, iknow i tried that a cuople of days ago but it never updated xorg.conf.vesa to use that driver, yea im a noob
so im most likely doing it all wrong :P
But will give it a go when i get back home this evening, and must say i love TC so far, just one hickup i noticed when testing lxde with openbox, the openconfig settings never worked, but thats for another thread .
Cheers
« Last Edit: July 02, 2012, 10:38:15 AM by ztealmax »

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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2012, 10:43:14 AM »
Hi ztealmax
Go to the search page and enter    xorg.conf.vesa     to get yourself started.

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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2012, 01:29:39 PM »
Could u do me a huge favor and email me your xorg config file
and onboot.lst and anyother file thats usefull? iknow you dont runt ati but i can get hints from your configs :-)
here is an older tread from me http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12965.msg71748.html#msg71748
All files (for my card) are there.
Adapt all names (Xorg7-6 instead of Xorg7-5..) to your need.
It could be a good start point.
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Re: Help with how i should install Radeon 9600 driver
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2012, 04:17:03 PM »
or have a look at
http://ozlabs.org/~jk/docs/mergefb/xorg.conf
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/ATI_Radeon_9600_AGP
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver 
...
for your conf file? (adapt it)

Few hints here http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/wer-hat-ati-radeon-9600-und-betreibt-sie-mit-/#post-2235969
says:
- use the driver "xserver-xorg-video-radeon"
- forget fglrx and radeonhd for that card
- use the Bootoption "radeon.modeset=1" (make it quicker; put that option in the extlinux.conf)

Mr. Google gives approx 75000 finding for "ati radeon 9600 xorg.conf".
So, your card seems to be an interesting piece.
AMD K6-IIIATZ 550MHz MB DFI K6xv3/+66
P4 HP DC7100 3GB 3GHz
Samsung NC10 boot from SD card port (via USB reader)
.. all TinyCore proofed