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>Alternative 2: Using ATI's own R200 Driver</TITLE
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TITLE="Alternative 1: Using XFree86's Radeon driver"
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TITLE="Alternative 3: Using DRI's Latest Radeon Driver"
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>ATI R200 + XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO</TH
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>Chapter 4. Step-by-step instructions</TD
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>4.2. Alternative 2: Using ATI's own R200 Driver</H1
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>ATI's R200 driver comes in three distributions - one for XFree4.1, one for XFree4.2 and one for XFree4.3. You can download ATIs driver from <A
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HREF="http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>here</A
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>. Sadly, for those of us who do not use a RedHat-based or other RPM-supporting distribution, the package is only available in RPM format. For those of us who do not have RPM support, <TT
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CLASS="literal"
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>alien</TT
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> is the program to use. Alien converts between various package formats. To convert the ATI driver package to a <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>.deb</TT
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> package, use <B
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CLASS="command"
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>alien --to-deb packagename.rpm</B
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>. To convert it to a <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>.tgz</TT
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> package, use <B
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CLASS="command"
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>alien --to-tgz packagename.rpm</B
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>.</P
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><P
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>You are now ready to install the driver. To install it, use:</P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>rpm -i --force /path/to/packagename.rpm</B
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>, if you are installing the rpm package</P
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></LI
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>dpkg -i --force-overwrite /path/to/packagename.deb</B
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>, if you made a .deb package</P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>cd / && tar zxvf /path/to/packagename.tgz</B
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>, if you made a .tgz package.</P
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>You are now ready to configure the driver. To install it, issue the following commands as root:</P
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> cd /lib/modules/fglr200/build_mod/
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./make.sh
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cd /lib/modules/fglr200/
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./make_install.sh
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</PRE
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>The driver is now ready for use.</P
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CLASS="important"
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WIDTH="25"
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ALIGN="CENTER"
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SRC="../images/important.gif"
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ALT="Important"></TD
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VALIGN="TOP"
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><P
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>The driver will not load unless you tell your Linux system to load it every time
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at startup. To do this, you must find out where to tell your Linux which modules to load at startup. In Debian, you must add the followng line to <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>/etc/modules</TT
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>:</P
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CLASS="screen"
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> fglr200
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</PRE
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>Add the line to the end of the file. You are now ready to configure XFree86.</P
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></TD
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></TABLE
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></DIV
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><P
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>XFree86 can be configured in two ways: either by running <B
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CLASS="command"
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>fglrxconfig</B
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> (supplied by the ATI driver), or by editing the <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>XF86Config</TT
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> file manually.</P
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>If you choose to run <B
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CLASS="command"
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>fglrxconfig</B
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>, the process is similar to a regular <B
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CLASS="command"
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>xf86config</B
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> run, except for the choice of which screen card driver to use (which will automatically be set to the ATI Radeon driver).</P
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><P
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>If you want to edit the configuration file manually, locate it (usually <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>/etc/X11/XF86Config</TT
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>), and open it in your favorite editor. Find the place saying <TT
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CLASS="literal"
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>Section "Device"</TT
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>. In this section, there should be a line saying <TT
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CLASS="literal"
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>Driver "somedrivername"</TT
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>. Edit this line so it says <TT
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CLASS="literal"
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>Driver "fglr200"</TT
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> and add the following lines right below that line: </P
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CLASS="screen"
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> Option "no_accel" "no"
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Option "no_dri" "no"
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Option "overlay" "off"
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</PRE
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></TD
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><P
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>Comment out all other lines in the Device section (add a # in front of them). Your device section should now look like this:</P
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BORDER="0"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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> Section "Driver"
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Identifier "some_identifier" (the identifier is your choice, but if you edit it,
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make sure you update every reference to it in the config file).
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Driver "fglr200"
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Option "no_accel" "no"
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Option "no_dri" "no"
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Option "overlay" "no"
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# ...
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# ...
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</PRE
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>You are now ready to run!</P
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>Alternative 1: Using XFree86's Radeon driver</TD
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