Debian Installation Guide
2007-11, see http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
As of November 2005, ATI's drivers are in the non-free area of Debian. Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list contains "contrib non-free" as well as main. You will, however, have to build your own kernel modules.
Warning: do not mix the non-free packages with the packages created by the installer as they will conflict in non-obvious ways. Before switching from one method to another, completely remove all fglrx-related packages. Never do upgrade from one method to another directly!
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Compile the kernel driver
Before do this, MAKE SURE you have deleted /usr/src/fglrx-kernel*.deb maybe generated by another installation. In Debian lenny this is unnecessary - it just compiles and installs the most recent fglrx*.deb package. I would assume this is the case with most up-to-date distributions but to play on the safe side you could remove any leftovers of previous builds.
sudo module-assistant prepare sudo module-assistant update sudo module-assistant a-i fglrx
Observed error messages
1.
What does this error message below refer to ? It is unclear where to follow-up for this error 2/Fehler 2 message.
| dh_testdir │ │ /usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/2.6.11/source SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/fglrx │ │ /bin/sh: /usr/src/linux-2.6.11/scripts/gcc-version.sh: Datei oder Verzeich │ │ make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11' │ │ make[2]: scripts/Makefile.build: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden │ │ make[2]: *** Keine Regel, um »scripts/Makefile.build« zu erstellen. Schlu │ │ make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/fglrx] Fehler 2 │ │ make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11' │ │ make: *** [build] Fehler 2
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so dlopen: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx" (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)
Solution: Install a newer C library and recompile the kernel:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
2.
In Debian Lenny the compiling process might fail. This occurs because Debian downloads another version 1:8-5-1 as opposed to the newest version from ATI 8.501-1 (1/07/2008). This messes up the compiling process. If you must know this occurs because the command m-a a-i automatically does m-a prepare, get, build, install. If you do m-a prepare, build, install fglr , without get this will not happen and you can skip the solution below.
Solution: Disable your repositories temporarily just for the compiling bit. Compile the source using module assistant. Then do:
$ aptitude hold fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-src
You can do the latter in ncurses by doing the following in order: type, as root, aptitude and press enter; pres "/" and type fglrx; you will see 3 packages select each with the mouse or using the arrow keys and pres "=" or alternatively press package from the menu and select hold. Finally enable your repositories once again.
Update the xorg.conf file (Configuration)
sudo aticonfig --initial
Now restart X, or reboot for the driver changes to take effect.
Confirm that it worked
$ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.5461 (X4.3.0-8.19.10)
If it didn't work, you may need to run:
# mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri # ln -s /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
Thanks to Maciej Matysiak for the clear debug here and solution here.
If it's still not working, try:
# rm /usr/lib/libGL.so* # rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so* # cd /usr/X11R6/lib # cp /usr/lib/fglrx/diversions/lib/libGL.so.1.2 . # ln -s libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so.1 # ldconfig
and confirm that 'ldd /usr/bin/fglrxinfo' is pointing to the right one.
People seem to be experiencing a broken libGL.so.1 after installing 8.41 on Debian/etch. If `amdcccle` complains that libGL.so.1 does't exist, DONT DELETE /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 LIKE IT SAYS ABOVE. Make symbolic link to libGL.so.1.2 (which is included in fglrx package - 14 megs in size):
# cd /usr/lib # ln -s libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so.1
This work fine for ATI mobility radeon 1400
(make backup the olds xorg.* files in your folder)
$ cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /home/username/corg.conf.old $ cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /home/username/Xorg.0.log.old
(add contrib non-free in repositories)
$ apt-get update $ apt-get install module-assistant build-essential fakeroot dh-make debconf bzip2
(from www.amd.com download the courent version of driver for your ATI)
$ sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/lenny
$ apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle_8.40.4-1_i386.deb $ apt-get install fglrx-driver-_8.40.4-1_i386.deb $ apt-get install fglrx-driver-dev_8.40.4-1_i386.deb $ apt-get install fglrx-kernel-src_8.40.4-1_i386.deb $ apt-get -f upgrade $ apt-get update
$ module-assistant prepare $ module-assistant update $ module-assistant a-i fglrx
$ aticonfig --initial
(reboot computer)
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.5461 (X4.3.0-8.19.10)