I have tried various install methods to try and get my ATI card to work in FC4, but to no avail. I have tried installing the drivers directly from the ATI website, and I have also tried installing them through yum using the livna repository. Both times, when i tried to verify that they had been installed properly the indications were that nothing has happened yet. I am not sure what to do after I finish installing the drivers, and all of the howto's that I have read don't have any additional instructions on what to do. By all accounts i should have fglrx and direct rendering working after the install/reboot, but nothing is going on. Here are some messages that I hope will be informative to anyone who is willing to help:
# glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
I hope someone can help me through this step by step, because I have already tried several different how to's and google searches, but I am finding nothing useful and it is a bit frustrating. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have tried various install methods to try and get my ATI card to work in FC4, but to no avail. I have tried installing the drivers directly from the ATI website, and I have also tried installing them through yum using the livna repository. Both times, when i tried to verify that they had been installed properly the indications were that nothing has happened yet. I am not sure what to do after I finish installing the drivers, and all of the howto's that I have read don't have any additional instructions on what to do. By all accounts i should have fglrx and direct rendering working after the install/reboot, but nothing is going on. Here are some messages that I hope will be informative to anyone who is willing to help:
# glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
I hope someone can help me through this step by step, because I have already tried several different how to's and google searches, but I am finding nothing useful and it is a bit frustrating. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have tried both the .run file as well as an rpm install. I must say thought that I did not just download the rpm myself and have at it. Since I use Fedora, i used yum to find the appropriate driver (or so i thought). The command that I used was: yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r). As I understand it, that is supposed to tell yum to find the correct driver for the kernel that I am using and install it, however, I was looking at my Xorg.0.log file and it was giving me warnings and errors saying that the kernel module did not match the driver. I appreciate any help you can give me.
I have tried both the .run file as well as an rpm install. I must say thought that I did not just download the rpm myself and have at it. Since I use Fedora, i used yum to find the appropriate driver (or so i thought). The command that I used was: yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r). As I understand it, that is supposed to tell yum to find the correct driver for the kernel that I am using and install it, however, I was looking at my Xorg.0.log file and it was giving me warnings and errors saying that the kernel module did not match the driver. I appreciate any help you can give me.
-Zorak
While you should generally use yum, you should not use it for proprietary drivers.
You need to install the proprietary driver from ATI.
well, I tried installing the .run file you linked me to, but i am getting the following errors/warnings in my Xorg.0.log file:
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 03:00:0
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.23.7
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: LGDr8.23g1
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Mar 6 2006 17:25:03
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Information: autobuild-rel-r6-8.23.1-driver-lnx-250560
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found
some lines later...
(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENOMEM"
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe0a73000 at 0xb7c89000
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
I could really use your help, and also, how do I contact you using the information in your signature (that is if you don't mind my Contacting you)?
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