ATI Drivers

[nivong]

Hi all,

Just installed backtrack 5 64 bit KDE(clean install) and first thing, updating ATI drivers. I went to the ATI driver download site, downloaded the 64 bit linux drivers, installed (dpkg -i ati....) installing drivers, restarting. Bam no OPENGL support, whole PC was laggin etc. had to disable all the effects and now it is some what running, still think this is a bug. Any idea's for a fix? first (befor installing the drivers) it was working great. So think of reinstalling it again...

cheers

[Godfrey]

Hi all,

Just installed backtrack 5 64 bit KDE(clean install) and first thing, updating ATI drivers. I went to the ATI driver download site, downloaded the 64 bit linux drivers, installed (dpkg -i ati....) installing drivers, restarting. Bam no OPENGL support, whole PC was laggin etc. had to disable all the effects and now it is some what running, still think this is a bug. Any idea's for a fix? first (befor installing the drivers) it was working great. So think of reinstalling it again...

cheers

You miss the fglrx module...

It's not a good idea to run ./*.run.You need to use the .run file to generate some .deb files with one of them for the fglrx module.

You may run this in your tty: ./*run --listpkg ---------------you can see all the distributions it can generate pkg
And use this : ./*run --buildpkg DISTRIBUTION ---------------DISTRIBUTION here is the distribution name of your system,you will see it using the above command

You may want to see the help : ./*run --help

You should install some pkgs in order to build .deb files,such as cdbs,dkms....You find that the missing pkgs can be installed automatically if you try to ./*run --buildpkg DISTRIBUTION

Make sure that the .deb for fglrx module has been generated.And install all the .deb files you need.Then all desktop effects can be applied.

You may read this in order to generate the fglrx module: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ivers-etc.html

[dpa078]

Hi, i've been running into similar problems. I was getting the error below when trying to install the fglrx drivers from original install.
There are some errors in prepare-kernel-sources script. And I followed the steps outlined in the forum link below copying in the header files, but that didn't solve the problem
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ivers-etc.html
cp -rf include/generated/* include/linux/

Then i installed the source and installed kernel using script at end of this page.
http://www.edwiget.name/2011/05/backtrack-5/
But I still get the same errors which is a bit puzzling since it built from those sources, and then subsequently installed. Any idea what i'm doing wrong?

Error message when installing generated deb files for fglrx
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Loading new fglrx-8.861 DKMS files...
Building only for 2.6.38
Building for architecture x86_64
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The 'detected' version of Linux from the ati installer package is Ubuntu/lucid. I've tried with maverick/natty which makes no difference.

any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

[Godfrey]

Install this package: linux-source-2.6.38
Then retry http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ivers-etc.html or not.
It will be success to generate the fglrx module.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Generating package: Ubuntu/lucid
Resolving build dependencies...
Unable to resolve can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-res
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-binfilter
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-calc
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-draw
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-impress
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-help
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-math
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-writer
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-base. Please manually install and try again.
Package /root/fglrx_8.861-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Package /root/fglrx-dev_8.861-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Package /root/fglrx-amdcccle_8.861-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Package /root/fglrx-modaliases_8.861-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.JXUk3C
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[dpa078]

Hi Godfrey, I've already tried this - this is what my system looks like if you can spot anythign obvious?

thanks

root@bt:~/Downloads/fglrx# uname -a
Linux bt 2.6.38 #1 SMP Sat Jun 18 14:56:25 CEST 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@bt:~/Downloads/fglrx# cd /boot/
root@bt:/boot# ls -al
total 78304
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-06-18 17:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 2011-06-18 18:29 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128634 2011-06-18 15:05 config-2.6.38
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-06-19 13:33 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28439533 2011-05-02 23:32 initrdf.img-2.6.38
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16961244 2011-06-18 17:47 initrd.img-2.6.38
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27983419 2011-05-05 18:05 initrds.img-2.6.38
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160280 2010-03-23 10:40 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2070888 2011-06-18 15:05 System.map-2.6.38
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2011-05-05 18:05 tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4408560 2011-06-18 15:05 vmlinuz-2.6.38
root@bt:/boot# cd /usr/src/
root@bt:/usr/src# ls -al
total 119564
drwxrwsr-x 7 root src 4096 2011-06-18 18:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2011-05-10 18:02 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-06-16 20:27 fglrx-8.850
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-06-18 17:46 fglrx-8.861
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 19 2011-06-18 18:16 linux -> linux-source-2.6.38
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 1194802 2011-06-18 15:06 linux-firmware-image_2.6.38-1_amd64.deb
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2011-06-04 22:42 linux-headers-2.6.38
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 6800518 2011-06-18 15:06 linux-headers-2.6.38_2.6.38-1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 37135058 2011-06-18 15:07 linux-image-2.6.38_2.6.38-1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 811334 2011-06-18 15:06 linux-libc-dev_2.6.38-1_amd64.deb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 19 2011-06-16 21:32 linux-OLDVERSION.1308252793 -> linux-source-2.6.38
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2011-06-18 18:17 linux-source-2.6.38
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76446311 2011-03-18 02:40 linux-source-2.6.38.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2011-05-29 15:42 virtualbox-ose-3.1.6

Install this package: linux-source-2.6.38
Then retry http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ivers-etc.html or not.
It will be success to generate the fglrx module.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Generating package: Ubuntu/lucid
Resolving build dependencies...
Unable to resolve can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-res
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-binfilter
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-calc
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-draw
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-impress
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-help
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-math
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-writer
can't parse dependency ooobasis33-zh_cn-base. Please manually install and try again.
Package /root/fglrx_8.861-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Package /root/fglrx-dev_8.861-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Package /root/fglrx-amdcccle_8.861-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Package /root/fglrx-modaliases_8.861-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.JXUk3C
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Godfrey]

There are some errors in prepare-kernel-sources script.

Can you give out the error messages?

[dpa078]

root@bt:/usr/src# prepare-kernel-sources [*] apt-getting linux-source...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-source is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
lp-solve libcolamd2.7.1 gnumeric-common gnome-desktop-data gnumeric-doc
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.[*] extracting sources, please wait[*] doing stuff...
cp: missing destination file operand after `/boot/'
Try `cp --help' for more information.
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
ln: creating symbolic link `/lib/modules/2.6.38/build/linux': File exists[*] tada!


/usr/bin/prepare-kernel-sources
#!/bin/bash
VER=`uname -r`
echo "[*] apt-getting linux-source..."
apt-get install linux-source
cd /usr/src/
echo "[*] extracting sources, please wait"
tar jxpf linux-source-$VER.tar.bz2
echo "[*] doing stuff..."
rm -rf linux
ln -s linux-source-$VER linux
cd linux
zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
cp /boot/ <-- Offending Line
#cp /usr/src/linux/ /boot/config-${VER} <-- Think i got this from link above - E.D.Wiget? Didn't seem to work either
make scripts
make prepare
ln -s /usr/src/linux /lib/modules/$VER/build
echo "[*] tada!"

Can you give out the error messages?

[nivong]

Uhm what a work to add drivers.... on backtrack 4 it was just install and reboot...

But is it necessary to install the drivers?

[Godfrey]

Uhm what a work to add drivers.... on backtrack 4 it was just install and reboot...

But is it necessary to install the drivers?

It seems that there are some bugs with the open source driver for ATI.The system will freeze randomly...
More details can be found here: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...-randomly.html

It should not hard for most people to install the official driver...

[Godfrey]

root@bt:~/Downloads/fglrx# uname -a
Linux bt 2.6.38 #1 SMP Sat Jun 18 14:56:25 CEST 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It seems that you compile the kernel yourself?

How about uninstalling package linux-source-2.6.38 purely,clearing the directory /usr/src/ and retrying another time?