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ATI grafics + nForce mobo = total confusion
I have a Radeon 9600 Pro EZ and an nVidia motherboard (ASUS nForce 2 Deluxe) and I'm not sure why, but I have problems installing the drivers that ATi has on their web for Linux. I also freaked out when I read on nVidia's web page that it's GART driver didn't yet support other video card acceleration from other companies than theirs, and since my motherboard is nVidia... is intalling nVidia's motherboard, sound and Lan drivers, and then installing ATi's drivers on top (Gart drivers included) a safe thing to do?
I had Mandrake 9.1 installed but had to install it on text mode... it was hell because I'm a total noob. I tried to install Ati's driver (without installing nVidia's) and just made everything even more broken. I tried to uninstall Linux... I didn't find a way to do it and a friend of mine told me to do a fdisk/mbr. That totally f*cked my hard disk's partitions, so I lost ALL my stuff (windows stuff and linux's stuff). That s*cked a lot. Sorry for my vocab, but I'm realy pissed off.
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ati-driver problems
hello!
I don't really think the ati-problem has something to do with the nforce chipset at all. i have a radeon 9600pro too and i'm unable to install the drivers. there are problems with an open gl library, i think.
when trying to install, there is a problem with /usr/x11r6/lib/libgl.so.1.2 (trying to overwrite this package whici is in in package xlibmesa4-gl, too)
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I would suggest trying out a version of Knoppix that has nvidia support such as Overclockix, Morphix or Kanotix. The nvidia audio driver is inteli810 and Kanotix has the GPL'd forcedeth driver. I haven't tried to use an ATI card w/ an nvidia mobo but have read both good and bad results- none of them catastrophic.
BTW- fdisk /mbr does nothing to your hdd other than rewrite the master boot record so your data was most likely not lost but simply inaccessable.
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I know I know... just unaccesible... but same thing to mee... no acess, no data.
Do you know if kernel 2.6 will make things easier for me? Or maybe... in Suse's web page I saw that ATi had updated their Linux driver (the one I have) so maybe THEY have their Suse 9 updated with them (although I think it's highly unlikly). Do you know if there is going to be an updated version of XFree soon? because I know that the XFree has untill Radeon 8500 and 9000, but doesn't have 9500 and up. But i DO know too that Mandrake 9.2 has 9500/9700 but doesn't have 9600/9800 hm... so frustrating.
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Output while trying to install ati-drivers
this is the output I get when trying to install ATI graphic drivers:
> (Reading database ... 114134 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking fglrx-glc22 (from .../fglrx-glc22_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing //root/fglrx-glc22_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package xlibmesa4-gl
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> //root/fglrx-glc22_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb
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If Linux is such a great Operating System... why is it so dificul to make a new piece of harware work? Shouldn't it be easy for nVidia & ATi with all those great engenieres they have to just make a simple driver that actualy works? Why is it so dificult to include the new drivers that are comming out in the newest versions of Linux? I just don't get what's so difficult about inserting a new driver in a new compilation (shrug)
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Overclockix looks good... I saw it supports nForce2 nativly (yeiii... at last!), do you know if it supports my 9600 ATi card? I just can't find the information of the supported hardware... (why is it always so dificult to find?)
Edited: I just found this:
And a second is planned which will be based on Jollix, a gentoo live-CD with Knoppix technology that's geared for gaming (with gaming kernel and 3d-enabled nvidia and radeon drivers).
This was wrote on Decembre 2nd. Do you think that they will launch it soon?
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Re: Output while trying to install ati-drivers
Originally Posted by
cybersmurf
this is the output I get when trying to install ATI graphic drivers:
> (Reading database ... 114134 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking fglrx-glc22 (from .../fglrx-glc22_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing //root/fglrx-glc22_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package xlibmesa4-gl
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> //root/fglrx-glc22_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb
Try this:
Code:
cp /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.backup
dpkg -i --force-overwrite /root/fglrx-glc22_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb
If everything works ok then you can delete the .backup file.
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I think they will put out that jollix-based Overclockix as soon as that Arkaine guy gets some free time from his 3 jobs and figures out how to remaster it...
Of course, installing jollix to a hard drive is not nearly so simple as installing Knoppix, because there is no jollix installer script. I bet that Arkaine guy will try to get the install guide translated from german to english though and include it on the CD.
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pfff... this is so difficult... I think I'm never gonna learn how to use Linux correctly.
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