Tryed to install new drivers, reinstalled old ones and lost direct rendering...

[Larsey]

In hopes of fixing my bug with WoW(and not knowing anything about drivers) some dude told me to install som drivers i had to download from ati.com. I was using fglrx driver i got with livna, and now i understand this was the same driver.

But when i installed the ones from ati i lost xserver(?? gnome/graphical linux and could start gnome atleast). So i had to yum --enablerepo=livna-testing --enablerepo=updates-testing install kmod-fglrx, and now i can log into a graphical linux(gnome).

First thing i did when coming back was trying to start wow, but it could not find 3d acceleration, and this is my output:

[lars@larsey ~]$ 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 6.4.2)

[lars@larsey ~]$ glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: No
[lars@larsey ~]$

[AlphOmega]

go to your xorg.conf fine in /etc/X11/xorg.cong and check what driver is being loaded for your card. If it says vesa change to fglrx but make a backup of your original conf file first incase it stops x starting.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"

[zydoon]

I got the same behaviour, I upgraded from livna, but I'm sure it's not a problem of livna, it seems that the 3D accel doesn't want to start :( weird, isn't ?
the xorg.conf is perfect for ATI
if someone finds out, please report it here.

[Thetargos]

File a bug to ATi, maybe? See if any other ATi users are experiencing the same, especially with Fedora/Red Hat systems

[paolosca]

I have the same problem, any of you found a solution?

Thanks,

Paolo.

[n3Ro]

Try to run "ati-fglrx-config-display enable". After that you add "Load "extmod"" in your module section of the xorg.conf. After a restart of the x server my problems with ati vanished.