ATIRadeon9600

Linux

Debian

for accelerated xfree in Debian, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

      deb http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/ ./
      deb http://minkirri.apana.org.au/pub/debian-local ./

the first contains the official-as-it-gets radeon sources. The second contains some pre-compiled kernel modules for standard debian kernels. As they potentialy contain unofficial versions of packages that might appear in debian, you can favour the official debian packages by adding the following to /etc/apt/preferences:

      Package: *
      Pin: release l=Flavio
      Pin-Priority: 100

      Package: *
      Pin: release l=Minkirri
      Pin-Priority: 100

If there is no precompiled module for your official Debian kernel, you can email Donovan Baarda and ask for one, or you can build your own. Note the scripts used to build these packages are available at http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/projects/fglrx/

New! The kernel modules should be buildable against your kernel's corresponding kernel-headers package. In the past there were some missing drm header files, but now the missing headers are included in the radeon source package. The instructions for building are as follows (replacing <arch> with "K7" or whatever, and <vers> with the version of the kernel-headers package);

1. Read the instructions at http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html
2. Add the above to your /etc/apt/sources.list and install the required packages, including your kernel-headers:

         # apt-get update
         # apt-get install fglrx-4.3.0-kernel-src kernel-headers-2.6-<arch>
   

3. Extract the fglrx source:

         # cd /usr/src
         # tar -xvzf fglrx-4.3.0-3.12.0.tar.gz
   

4. Use make-kpkg to build the modules package:

         # cd /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-1-<arch>/
         # make-kpkg --append-to-version "-1-<arch>" --revision "<vers>"--added-modules fglrx-4.3.0-3.12.0 modules_image
   

5. Read the instructions at http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html again, for details on how to install and configure xfree to use your new kernel module package.

I've had strange conflicts with the radeonfb... it may be possible to get it working, but I'm not sure if it helps.

1. disable discover loading radeonfb by adding the following line to /etc/discover-modprobe.conf:

         skip="radeonfb"
   

2. Add the following lines to /etc/modules (assuming nforce chipset... the first line will vary depending on motherboard):

         nvidia_agp
         agpgart
         fglrx