Acer Aspire 1693

X700 Mobile radeon DRI how-to for Acer Aspire 1693

This is how-to setup 3D acceleration working:

1) What we have: and
 * Linux my-linux 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #2 SMP Sat Jan 8 21:38:58 EET 2011 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
 * 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)
 * X.Org X Server 1.5.3

2)

There are hidden troubles installing proprietary fglrx driver but it can be made:

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/x11-libs/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.11.ebuild libdrm version <2.4.12
 * for DRI to work you will need


 * Xorg server version < 1.7 (mine are 1.5.3)

ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run
 * FGLRX driver version 9.3 (EXACTLY THIS VERSION, higher wont do and lower wont work)

3) What youll need to do: it will install everything EXCEPT kernel driver:
 * remove any current installed ati-drivers
 * switch your xorg to vesa driver
 * switch select opengl to x11 driver
 * remove drm and radeon driver from kernel and modules, they are NOT needed
 * try installing 9.3 drivers by executing `sh ati-driver-installer...`
 * to make kernel driver compile go to /lib/modules/fglrx/, there you will find the sources that failed to compile -- modify them as in


 * http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/fglrx-9-3-patch-for-2-6-29-x-kernel-722858/

posting other links that may be needed:
 * and recompile, thats all, reboot you should get everything working.


 * http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/trouble-installing-ati-drivers-slackware-13-0-a-751112/
 * http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16173
 * http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html
 * http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=155503&page=225
 * http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=221242
 * http://superuser.com/questions/144907/how-to-install-a-old-ebuild-while-its-no-longer-in-the-portage-tree-for-example
 * http://thinkpads.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=89536
 * http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/fglrx-9-3-patch-for-2-6-29-x-kernel-722858/
 * http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fglrx
 * http://www.flyonthenet.it/blog/?p=26
 * http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-closed@lists.debian.org/msg270029.html
 * http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/beginners-forum/216-ati-driver-wont-install-configure.html
 * http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/unreviewed-how-faq/418420-ati-drivers-opensuse-11-x-updated.html
 * http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/ATI-Catalyst-fglrx-and-Kernels-2.6.30-2.6.29.html
 * http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/AIGLX/Troubleshooting
 * http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/linux/54874/
 * http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=47329.0

fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700 OpenGL version string: 2.1.8543 Release

gxlgears about 13000 frames in 5 seconds / 2500fps

xorg.conf:

Section "Monitor" Identifier  "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" Option     "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option     "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option     "DPMS" "true" EndSection

Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver     "fglrx" BusID      "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection

Section "DRI" Mode        0660 EndSection

Section "Extensions" Option     "Composite" "Disable" EndSection

~ Sergey Shilko