[ltp] ATI Driver - Thinkpad T43 w/ X300

[Jiang Qian]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:11:28PM -0800, noc ops wrote:
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> Jiang Qian wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:54:55PM -0800, noc ops wrote:
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> >>
> >>Jiang Qian wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:22:39PM -0800, noc ops wrote:
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> >>>
> >>>>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
> ---------------------
> 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
What are the m-a a-i stuff? I did up dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-source part.  
Then I did the following:
sudo tar xfj fglrx.tar.bz2
sudo cd modules
sudo chmod u+x make.sh
sudo ./make.sh
sudo mv fglrx.ko to /lib/modules/yourkernelversion/misc
sudo depmod -ae
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> Do I need to run aitconfig (see below)?
No I did not. I backed up my old xorg.conf then I changed
Section "Device"
Driver "fglrx"
Options "VideoOverlay" "on"
Options "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Options "UseInternalAGPART" "no"
also disable any mentions of composite and transparency if you added it 
to your xorg.conf yourself.
Of course you cal also use aticonfig --initial and answer a bunch of 
questions and get a xorg.conf but do back up before that.

> 
> #sudo aticonfig --initial
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> 
> 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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