[mythtv-users] ATI Video Drivers

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Dec 18 06:38:24 UTC 2006


On 15/12/06, Brad Goodman <brad at bradgoodman.com> wrote:
> I am having an enormously difficult time getting the video drivers set up
> correctly.
>
> What I know is that I have fglrx, drm, radeon, agpgart and via-agp that all
> need to play together.

fglrx is the closed source ATI binary driver. radeon is the open
source driver. You should use one or the other. The fglrx driver can
use either the kernel's AGP support, or the AGP support in the fglrx
driver itself. If it detects kernel support, it will not try to use
its own AGP support. As you have seen, the best way to ensure that the
fglrx's AGP support is used is to recompile the kernel without the AGP
support.

> On the same page on ATI's site, it implies that to get Direct Rendering to
> work properly, you have to use the AGP support in fglrx, and disable that in
> the kernel - yet at the same time, it tells you you need to have agpgart and
> via-agp loaded- so I don't understand that.

Please could you post the link to the ATI article, and let us know
which kernel/ATI card you are using. Also, do you have the kernel
headers/source installed?

Nick

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