Hardware :: Compile Your Own ATI Drivers In Debian Distros ?

This probably isnt the correct place to put this, But I can hardly understand how this forum is organized. And forget blogging, I dont even know what that is, let alone how to make one.

Anyway i see tons of requests for installing the ATI drivers in linux, I can only help with the debian based distros.

This was originally posted here http://www.mepis.org/node/13647

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Finally, after many days of research on how to install Ati proprietary drivers on Mepis 6.5 with 3D and dual-monitor enabled and my Radeon x1950Pro I have come to a successful install and i will share my method below.

My system specs are below.

I read a lot of documentation and tried many guides on Ubuntu/Mepis forums with no or limited results until I found a guide on a french Ubuntu forum that guided me to success.

I had to modify the guide to my needs since it was aimed at installing on Ubunto 7.04 Feity Fawn. Since Mepis 6.5 is based in part on Ubuntu 6.06 the core parts of the guide were adequate.

If you follow every step to the letter eveything should work right away, and fast. (Make a backup of your xorg.conf before you do this!) Make sure your monitor(s) is setup or detected properly in xorg.conf

So here it is customized, adapted and translated to english:

1)Go here and download latest ati drivers: [url]

In our present case these are:

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ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run

2) If you tried installing previous versions of fglrx Use synaptics search function and remove everything with "fglrx" in its name before we start.

3)Open a console

Here is a one liner you can use that does everything above in one shot:

4)Reboot PC (Will probalby be command line logon with no GUI (X))

Login to your user and then su to root and enter: aticonfig --initial or in my personal case

aticonfig --dtop=horizontal --overlay-on=1 --force-monitor=crt1,crt2

I noticed on some of my tests that sometimes the xorg.conf files dissapears during this process. Seems like a bug. In such a case restore your backup and repeat the aticonfig routine.

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reboot

5)When you are rebooted you will have a working gui but no 3D acceleration yet. So open a console and su to root

kwrite /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Add:

To the end of your xorg.conf

CTRL-ALT BACKSPACE or Reboot

Test in console as root and you should have 3D

fglrxinfo

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You can also run:

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