Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command: yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
- Restart X
- Done
Hope this helps
CU thl
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 19:10 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
Restart X
Done
Hope this helps
This means of of course "Yes I have them successfully installed" using this way ;-)
On lör, 2005-01-22 at 19:10 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
Restart X
Done
Hope this helps
CU thl -- Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info
Thanks for the info. I still can't get it to work though. I followed your instructions and when I rebooted I got a smaller screen with lower refresh rate, so something obviously happened (if not the right thing). Moreover `fglrxinfo' shows:
$ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)
According to the installation instructions from ATI, `OpenGL vendor string' should not be Mesa if the driver is correctly installed. The game Tux Racer is as slow as before and the mouse pointer is gone (in the game). I then ran fglrxconfig, saved the XF86Config-4 file (should really be named something like XorgConfig-4, right?) in /etc/X11 and rebooted but it didn't solve the problem.
Any clues?
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 19:55 +0100 schrieb August:
On lör, 2005-01-22 at 19:10 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
Restart X
Done
Thanks for the info. I still can't get it to work though. I followed your instructions and when I rebooted
Restarting X should normally suffice.
I got a smaller screen with lower refresh rate, so something obviously happened (if not the right thing). Moreover `fglrxinfo' shows:
$ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)
According to the installation instructions from ATI, `OpenGL vendor string' should not be Mesa if the driver is correctly installed.
Yes, this would be normal:
$ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9600 Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)
The game Tux Racer is as slow as before and the mouse pointer is gone (in the game). I then ran fglrxconfig, saved the XF86Config-4 file (should really be named something like XorgConfig-4, right?) in /etc/X11 and rebooted but it didn't solve the problem.
I would suggest you first remove the newly created X-Conf and get out the old -- the one created by the fglrxconfig program sometimes makes trouble. In case of need just move all current configs aside and recreate with system-config-display
Try if it works. Then enable the driver using
/usr/sbin/ati-fglrx-config-display enable
Restart X. Look if it works now. If not send me the output of :
/sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx grep fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears
The last command should list (besides others) libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0x05880000)
If not send me privately /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
HTH
CU thl
On Saturday 22 January 2005 12:57, August wrote:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
URL please? I have a 9200SE
-- August
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 22 January 2005 12:57, August wrote:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
URL please? I have a 9200SE
-- August
Go to http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html select linux x86 or x86-64 and click on "go" button near lower right corner.
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 15:09 -0500 schrieb David Curry:
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 22 January 2005 12:57, August wrote:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
URL please? I have a 9200SE
FYI: The open-source driver for your card already supports DRI.
Go to http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html select linux x86 or x86-64 and click on "go" button near lower right corner.
There you can download the driver, yes. But
- you need to compile a kernel module - it does not compile with the current fedora update kernel - it installs files in the system that are not managed by rpm (earlier or later that can lead to problems?) - it conflicts with a RPM from Core - it puts evil things like
if [ $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ] then if ! set | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH | grep /usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules > /dev/null then LD_LIBRARY_PATH= $LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules export LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi else LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules export LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi
into you /etc/profile and will never remove them (AFAIK).
All things that don't happen with the package from livna ;-)
Cu thl
On lör, 2005-01-22 at 20:15 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 19:55 +0100 schrieb August:
On lör, 2005-01-22 at 19:10 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
Restart X
Done
Thanks for the info. I still can't get it to work though. I followed your instructions and when I rebooted
Restarting X should normally suffice.
I got a smaller screen with lower refresh rate, so something obviously happened (if not the right thing). Moreover `fglrxinfo' shows:
$ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)
According to the installation instructions from ATI, `OpenGL vendor string' should not be Mesa if the driver is correctly installed.
Yes, this would be normal:
$ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9600 Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)
The game Tux Racer is as slow as before and the mouse pointer is gone (in the game). I then ran fglrxconfig, saved the XF86Config-4 file (should really be named something like XorgConfig-4, right?) in /etc/X11 and rebooted but it didn't solve the problem.
I would suggest you first remove the newly created X-Conf and get out the old -- the one created by the fglrxconfig program sometimes makes trouble. In case of need just move all current configs aside and recreate with system-config-display
Try if it works. Then enable the driver using
/usr/sbin/ati-fglrx-config-display enable
Restart X. Look if it works now. If not send me the output of :
/sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx grep fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears
The last command should list (besides others) libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0x05880000)
If not send me privately /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
HTH
CU thl
-- Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info
Removed the XF86-Config* files from /etc/X11 and ran system-config-display. The hardware settings are correct; Samsung SyncMaster 15GLi and ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. Chose to save the settings anyway and ran
/usr/sbin/ati-fglrx-config-display enable
Restarted X, but there's no difference. Here is the requested output:
$ /sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx fglrx 225024 0
$ grep fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf Driver "fglrx"
$ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0x00242000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00d84000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00cbb000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00de9000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00c90000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00b64000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00cb5000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00b4b000)
Thanks again for your help.
On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:22, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 15:09 -0500 schrieb David Curry:
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 22 January 2005 12:57, August wrote:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
URL please? I have a 9200SE
FYI: The open-source driver for your card already supports DRI.
Yes, I know, I finally got it working just a week or so back. But I was curious. The site, or mozilla, is broken though, I had to hit the shift key to dl the drivers.rpm.
Thanks
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
What video cards does this driver work with? I have an older Thinkpad with a Rage 128 card in it.
James McKenzie
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 21:38 +0100 schrieb August:
On lör, 2005-01-22 at 20:15 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 19:55 +0100 schrieb August:
On lör, 2005-01-22 at 19:10 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
Restarted X, but there's no difference. Here is the requested output:
$ /sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx fglrx 225024 0
The kernel-module is loaded but unused -- did you get this info while X was running?
$ grep fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf Driver "fglrx"
Driver activated.
$ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0x00242000)
And correct librarys are found. Does grep -i 'Load.*dri' /etc/X11/xorg.conf show:
Load "dri"
If not add it to the modules section.
Wondering still whats wrong. Are you sure your Xserver uses /etc/X11/xorg.conf (look in the head of /var/log/Xorg.0.log)?
Please send me privately you /var/log/Xorg.0.log, your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and the output of /sbin/lspci, /sbin/lspci -n and dmesg (the last after at least once the X-Server started with the fglrx drivers)
Thanks.
CU thl
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 13:48 -0700 schrieb James McKenzie:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
What video cards does this driver work with? I have an older Thinkpad with a Rage 128 card in it.
Nope, 8500 and up: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.8.25.html
CU
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 13:48 -0700 schrieb James McKenzie:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
What video cards does this driver work with? I have an older Thinkpad with a Rage 128 card in it.
Nope, 8500 and up: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.8.25.html
CU
Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in the FC3 distribution.
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:48 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
Hello all,
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
What video cards does this driver work with? I have an older Thinkpad with a Rage 128 card in it.
If your intested in 3D, the current X-org drivers should support acceleration via DRI http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATI? action=highlight&value=CategoryHardwareVendor
I have a few systems at work with a couple flavors of R128 and 3D worked under RH 7.3 if a bit buggy with some texture issues, so I would expect them to function reasonably well now.
If your thinking on playing games it should be good enough for older games like Quake 2 and Unreal.
Paul
James McKenzie
Thorsten Leemhuis kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 22. tammikuuta 2005 22:22):
- you need to compile a kernel module
- it does not compile with the current fedora update kernel
This patch is required with kernel >= 2.6.10: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33798874
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 13:48 -0700 schrieb James McKenzie:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 18:57 +0100 schrieb August:
ATI graphics card owners may have noticed that ATI recently have released a driver for Xorg 6.8. Has anyone successfully installed the driver on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or know of any info?
- Configure yum like described in
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
- Than install the driver with the command:
yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
What video cards does this driver work with? I have an older Thinkpad with a Rage 128 card in it.
Nope, 8500 and up:
Thank you. I just wanted to make sure that I'm current. Guess that I am.
James McKenzie
David Curry wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in the FC3 distribution.
Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the Rage 128 with r128 as the selected driver. However, when I attempt to compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up to either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build r128 support as a module. Does anyone have a working kernel with r128 support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working kernel with r128 support built-into the kernel?
James McKenzie wrote:
David Curry wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in the FC3 distribution.
Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the Rage 128 with r128 as the selected driver. However, when I attempt to compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up to either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build r128 support as a module. Does anyone have a working kernel with r128 support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working kernel with r128 support built-into the kernel?
You should not need to take any extra steps to compile in support for an ATI r128 based video card when installing FC3 or FC2. The card should be detected during installation of FC3 and the appropriate X.org driver installed. My ATI Radeon 7000 video card was detected and appropriate support included along with the rest of FC2 when I installed the system from distribution CD isos.
David Curry wrote:
James McKenzie wrote:
David Curry wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in the FC3 distribution.
Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the Rage 128 with r128 as the selected driver. However, when I attempt to compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up to either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build r128 support as a module. Does anyone have a working kernel with r128 support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working kernel with r128 support built-into the kernel?
You should not need to take any extra steps to compile in support for an ATI r128 based video card when installing FC3 or FC2. The card should be detected during installation of FC3 and the appropriate X.org driver installed. My ATI Radeon 7000 video card was detected and appropriate support included along with the rest of FC2 when I installed the system from distribution CD isos.
David:
Try suspending and unsuspending. X goes nuts and starts to consume every CPU cycle it can if you stay in VT 7. Switching out to a text VT (1-6) drops X to a reasonable level, but switching back to VT 7 starts the cycle over, if I leave the video driver as a module. If I compile in the video driver, this does not happen. I found a D600 (yes it is a Dell) script, but the user tries to xinit screen 1, not 0. I think the only solution is to crash X and then bring it back up after suspending (which defeats completely the reason I want to suspend in the first place.) The other side is that I can as stated in other messages, use the Radeon driver supplied by Fedora and suspend and resume. However, I get hit with the power consumption bug in those drivers.
James McKenzie wrote:
David Curry wrote:
James McKenzie wrote:
David Curry wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Your Thinkpad card may well be supported by Xorg drivers included in the FC3 distribution.
Just got around to looking at xorg.conf and the card in it is the Rage 128 with r128 as the selected driver. However, when I attempt to compile in r128 support, I get a blank screen and have to boot up to either a kernel with Radeon support built-in or I have to build r128 support as a module. Does anyone have a working kernel with r128 support built-in or knows what I have to do to get a working kernel with r128 support built-into the kernel?
You should not need to take any extra steps to compile in support for an ATI r128 based video card when installing FC3 or FC2. The card should be detected during installation of FC3 and the appropriate X.org driver installed. My ATI Radeon 7000 video card was detected and appropriate support included along with the rest of FC2 when I installed the system from distribution CD isos.
David:
Try suspending and unsuspending. X goes nuts and starts to consume every CPU cycle it can if you stay in VT 7. Switching out to a text VT (1-6) drops X to a reasonable level, but switching back to VT 7 starts the cycle over, if I leave the video driver as a module. If I compile in the video driver, this does not happen. I found a D600 (yes it is a Dell) script, but the user tries to xinit screen 1, not 0. I think the only solution is to crash X and then bring it back up after suspending (which defeats completely the reason I want to suspend in the first place.) The other side is that I can as stated in other messages, use the Radeon driver supplied by Fedora and suspend and resume. However, I get hit with the power consumption bug in those drivers.
All:
I decided to compile in R128 support and disable DRI in xorg.conf. Now it appears to work. I have to try suspending and hibernating.