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| − | It is assumed that you have completed the [[Installation|installation process]].
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| − | ==Verify with ATI tools==
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| − | If the installation has worked, then any 3D application should work without issue. A simple way to verify without any possibility of failure is to verify the following occurs. Please note that you may have needed to go through [[:Category:Distributions|distribution specific]] process to enable the 3D support.
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| − | ===fglrxinfo===
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| − | $ fglrxinfo
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| − | display: :0.0 screen: 0
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| − | OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
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| − | OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1600 Series
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| − | OpenGL version string: 2.1.7415 Release
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| − | If the vendor string is "Mesa", the driver wouldn't configure properly the /etc/X11/xorg.conf .Please see the [[Troubleshooting|Troubleshooting]] page.
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| − | ===fgl_glxgears===
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| − | You can also run the ATI provided application called fgl_glxgears which should show a spinning cube with the venerable glxgears running on each face.
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| − | <b>If you run fgl_glxgears and the cube spins but is lacking any cogs on the faces, the faces being instead various shades of blue and/or you get an error message like:</b>
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| − | Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
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| − | 913 frames in 5.0 seconds = 182.600 FPS
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| − | 783 frames in 5.0 seconds = 156.600 FPS
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| − | X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
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| − | Major opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
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| − | Resource id in failed request: 0x0
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| − | Serial number of failed request: 51
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| − | Current serial number in output stream: 51
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| − | </pre>
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| − | <b>Then your installation most presumably failed!</b>
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| − | ===Links===
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| − | http://linux.coconia.net/general/ati.htm<br>
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| − | http://m.domaindlx.com/LinuxHelp/ati/ati.htm (mirror)
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| − | ==Verify with Linux tools==
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| − | ===glxinfo===
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| − | This command line option should report "direct" rendering.
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| − | $ glxinfo | grep direct
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| − | (For Debian 4.0, install the mesa-utils package to get glxinfo.)
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| − | ===Xorg.0.log===
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| − | The X.org X server log file also contains useful information to verify installation was successful. It is located on most Linux distributions at <code>/var/log/Xorg.0.log</code> and can be opened by any text editor.
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| − | '''You can now move on to [[Configuring|configuring the driver]].'''
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