ATI X850, X run

[Pirate Steve]

Problem, when I type X from the shell I get message
Fatal server error:
no screens found

I am pretty sure that my problem is the video driver. I have the driver I downloaded from the ATI support web site.
*note
this driver has dependency on
# POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D apps
# glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
# Linux kernel 2.4 or higher
# XOrg 6.7,6.8,6.9,7.0 or 7.1; XFree86 version 4.3

Question 1, what is POSIX?

Question 2, how to update glibc?
It seems to detect that I am "running a x86 machine with glibc-2.1", but I am using Debian Sarge which I thought was glibc 2.4. Unfortunately I have no idea what that means or how to update / change it.

I tried to run the driver but it gave me this error:
(from the fglrx-install.log)
[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Error] Kernel Module : No kernel module build environment - please consult read me...

Question 3, does this relate to glibc? If not, then what?

[antidrugue]

You can easily install the ATI drivers in Debian Sarge like that :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/367349-post6.html

Be sure to replace "etch" with "sarge" in this line :

fakeroot ./ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run --buildpkg Debian/etch

You shouldn't have any glibc related problem if your sarge system is up-to-date :

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

[Pirate Steve]

I tried that and it didn't work.

Problem came during
fakeroot ./ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run --buildpkg Debian/sarge

It goes good for a while then there is this line

(cd debian/fglrx-kernel-src/usr/src \
&& chown -R root:src modules \
&& tar -c modules | bzip2 > fglrx.tar.bz2 \
&& rm -rf modules)
/bin/sh: line 1: bzip2: command not found
make: *** [binary] Error 127
/home/user/ATI_Download/fglrx-install
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install

Is bzip2 not a debain command?

[antidrugue]

Perhaps you need to install those packages first :

apt-get install bzip2 build-essential

[Pirate Steve]

Well that was successful.

However when I execute the following command
apt-get install linux-headers$(uname -r)
I get
E: Couldn't find package linus headers-2.4.27-2-386

What does that mean?

[antidrugue]

Oups, my mistake, the line should be :

sudo apt-get install kernel-headers-$(uname -r)

so the package is called "kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-386" in Debian Sarge.

[Pirate Steve]

Just a quick note, I think that worked ok now I just need to edit my xfree86 config.

[antidrugue]

Yep, that's it. You just have to add a few lines to the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, as mentionned here :
http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/deb...html#configure

[Pirate Steve]

Is vi the only way to edit this file from the console?

[oz]

Is vi the only way to edit this file from the console?

If you aren't familiar with vi, you could try nano or pico.