Monday, 14 December 2009

ATI Catalyst™ 9.11 Driver on CentOS 5.4

Tried to install ATI Catalyst™ 9.11 Driver on CentOS 5.4 with the Integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics in the motherboard GA-MA785GT-UD3H (rev. 1.0).

1st try failed.
looking at the error log at
/usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log

Turns out that I need to install the kernel headers before I install this driver.
installed the header rpm for 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-x86_64
and it works fine now.
Yet to benchmark it though.
will try this soon

256 MB  Radeon HD 4200

[15:06:33 ~]$ glxgears
13524 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2704.076 FPS
14208 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2841.537 FPS
18396 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3679.084 FPS
18753 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3750.495 FPS
15337 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3066.924 FPS
18235 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3646.986 FPS
18245 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3648.970 FPS

[15:07:58 ~]$ /usr/bin/fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
2983 frames in 5.0 seconds = 596.600 FPS
4220 frames in 5.0 seconds = 844.000 FPS
4225 frames in 5.0 seconds = 845.000 FPS
4213 frames in 5.0 seconds = 842.600 FPS
5879 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1175.800 FPS
6707 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1341.400 FPS
6278 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1255.600 FPS
6580 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1316.000 FPS

2 comments:

  1. Dear sir
    my os is also centos 5.4 and the same mother board
    i do what u do,but still fail
    by the way my kernel is 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5xen newer than yours,i also download kernel header
    the error message are
    [Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
    [Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
    [Error] Kernel Module : Kernel module build environment not found - please consult readme.
    i have tried ati-driver-installer-9-11-x86.x86_64.run and ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run ,both show the same error message
    do u have any idea?
    thanks in advance

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  2. Hmmmm any way to rollback your kernel version?

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