[ltp] ATI Driver - Thinkpad T43 w/ X300

[noc ops]

Jiang Qian wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:54:55PM -0800, noc ops wrote:
> 
>>
>>Jiang Qian wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:22:39PM -0800, noc ops wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Looking for some thoughts regarding the driver I'm looking to use for my
>>>>TP T43 w/ x300.
>>>>
>>>>According to ati's website (ati.com), section under
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Notebooks with ATI Graphics->
>>>>
>>>>ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Drivers for XFREE86 / X. Org Version
>>>>8.22.5->
>>>>
>>>>->ati-driver-installer-8.22.5-i386.run
>>>>
>>>>appears to be the most current driver.
>>>
>>>If you don't mind closed source driver tainting your kernel, it works 
>>>pretty well for me with X300. I'm using a version earlier: 8.21.7.  
>>>Stability is very good: I use it with Xorg 8.2 and patched vanilla 
>>>2.6.12.4 and my T43 has very long uptime(30 days to be precise. It 
>>>crashed because I removed the battery to my fridge--longer battery 
>>>time--and my apartment's power failed.) I use suspend to ram a couple of 
>>>times a day so that's about 100 suspend-to-ram cycles(to get it to work 
>>>you need to patch the kernel, though). No random lockup for me though I 
>>>don't play games. 3D is working of course, and the power save mode does 
>>>make my laptop cooler(it's at least comparable and quite possibly better 
>>>than the dynamic clock on open source driver).
>>>Jiang
>>
>>-----------------
>>My current newly installed ubuntu has X.org v6.8.2. I'm guessing I
>>should leave this as is unless people think this is not a stable release.
>>
>>I will go ahead and install ati-driver-installer-8.22.5-i386.run unless
>>you think 8.21.7 is more stable and gives better output.
>>
>>
>>regards,
>>/virendra
> 
> Never tried the later version but in my experience ATI didn't have a lot 
> of regression so it's probably safe to get the latest driver. On thing 
> to note: you want to generate the package for your own distribution and 
> then use your own package management to install it.  This is because ati 
> driver install some different library files and symbolic links so that 
> it's best to let your distro to take care of it. See
> http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_fglrx
> for pitfalls for your distro. For example for my own distro I did
>  ./ati-driver-installer-8.21.7-i386.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/5.04
> It generates five packages. I installed them then compile the kernel 
> modules.
> Jiang
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This is how I'm planning on installing the driver. Let me know if I'm
missing anything.

#sudo apt-get install gcc-3.4 module-assistant build-essential fakeroot
dh-make debconf libstdc++5 gcc-3.3-base
#sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.22.5-i386.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/breezy
#sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_8.22.5-1_i386.deb
#sudo dpkg -i fglrx-control_8.22.5-1_i386.deb
#sudo dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-source_8.22.5-1_i386.deb
#sudo m-a prepare
#sudo m-a update
#sudo m-a a-i fglrx

Do I need to run aitconfig (see below)?

#sudo aticonfig --initial


Please advice.


regards,
/virendra

> 
>>>>Has anyone used this driver? If so, is this the correct driver for TP
>>>>T43 w/ X300?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Please advice.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>regards,
>>>>/virendra
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