I can't use my ati radeon 9550 graphics card since I installed Etch. I
need the ati propriety drivers, because I need the tvout and a proper 3d
acceleration; things the free driver cannot deliver.
The problem is that after I install the fglrx drivers I cannot run various
programs: totem, opera browser, the new ati catalyst tool (amdcccle), and
possibly many more that I haven't tried.
Totem crashes and shows a screen with 3 buttons, restart,close report bug
but unfortunately no bug report is available, Opera and amdcccle say
floating point exception.
Today I installed sid to check whether that bug was solved but no luck.

The only workable solution I have come to is when I need to browse the
internet: use the free 'ati' drivers, when I need the tv-out/good 3d
acceleration: switch to 'fglrx' but this requires at least one
logout/restart of x and it's pretty irritating
..
here's my latest fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6400 (8.35.5)
The system is fully updated using kernel 2.6.18-k7


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On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 21:42 +0300, metalqga wrote:
> I can't use my ati radeon 9550 graphics card since I installed Etch. I
> need the ati propriety drivers, because I need the tvout and a proper 3d
> acceleration; things the free driver cannot deliver.

If I'm not mistaken, the 9550 is using a RV350 chipset and should be
supported by the radeon driver in Xorg.

I suggest you remove the fglrx drivers, and install Xorg from
experimental. (As you're already running sid it shouldn't be much of a
problem).

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Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 21:42 +0300, metalqga wrote:
>> I can't use my ati radeon 9550 graphics card since I installed Etch. I
>> need the ati propriety drivers, because I need the tvout and a proper 3d
>> acceleration; things the free driver cannot deliver.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, the 9550 is using a RV350 chipset and should be
> supported by the radeon driver in Xorg.
>
> I suggest you remove the fglrx drivers, and install Xorg from
> experimental. (As you're already running sid it shouldn't be much of a
> problem).
>
Excuse me, he said Etch, not Sid and installing something from
experimental in Etch is almost sure to cause problems.

I agree with your point though, the radeon drivers may work well enough
to accomplish the tasks requested.

Joe

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On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 21:46 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> Excuse me, he said Etch, not Sid and installing something from
> experimental in Etch is almost sure to cause problems.

From his post,
"Today I installed sid to check whether that bug was solved but
no luck."

At the moment, experimental is more of a waiting ground for packages not
intended for etch, and anyway, installing a few carefully selected
packages from experimental is not dangerous.

I did recommend Xorg 7.2 (the one in experimental) because the radeon
has seen quite a lot of development, especially for r300 (used for the
rv350 cards also I think) and might have fixed whatever problems he had.

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Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 21:46 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
>
>> Excuse me, he said Etch, not Sid and installing something from
>> experimental in Etch is almost sure to cause problems.
>>
>
> From his post,
> "Today I installed sid to check whether that bug was solved but
> no luck."
>
> At the moment, experimental is more of a waiting ground for packages not
> intended for etch, and anyway, installing a few carefully selected
> packages from experimental is not dangerous.
>
> I did recommend Xorg 7.2 (the one in experimental) because the radeon
> has seen quite a lot of development, especially for r300 (used for the
> rv350 cards also I think) and might have fixed whatever problems he had.
>
>

http://packages.debian.org/testing/x...xorg-video-ati
http://x.europnews.de/pub/X11R7.2/src/driver/

As You can see from these links, Etch ati driver is at 7.2. 3D
accelleration works, but not sure about TV out, try googling a little.


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Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 21:46 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
>> Excuse me, he said Etch, not Sid and installing something from
>> experimental in Etch is almost sure to cause problems.
>
> From his post,
> "Today I installed sid to check whether that bug was solved but
> no luck."
>
> At the moment, experimental is more of a waiting ground for packages not
> intended for etch, and anyway, installing a few carefully selected
> packages from experimental is not dangerous.
>
> I did recommend Xorg 7.2 (the one in experimental) because the radeon
> has seen quite a lot of development, especially for r300 (used for the
> rv350 cards also I think) and might have fixed whatever problems he had.
>

So he did (and you corrected the punctuation. I missed that line.
Sorry. As for experimental packages, you are also correct, but one must
be careful which packages to install and it is something that is not for
someone who is not familiar with the inner workings of the system
because it can cause problems.

For the record, I run Kernel 2.6.20.4 with KDE 3.5.6, in Sid, KDE being
from experimental.

Joe

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