Howto for fglrx / catalyst (Ati driver)

[leigh123linux]

Leigh123,

I think you updated your instructions from my last post, judging by the Last Updated notice in your post. :)

I had problems when following these instructions


The errors I got were:

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mach64_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mga_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r128_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r200_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/radeon_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/savage_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/tdfx_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/unichrome_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64


This is what I did

[root@mycroft ~]# rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-dri-drivers
[root@mycroft ~]# yum groupinstall "X Window System"


And everything went smoothly after that, so you may want to modify your instructions accordingly. I started from a fresh install, then upgrade and then onto your instructions, so the DRI libraries were in the default install (I think).

Also, is there a way of getting an auto notification when update your first instruction, I get one each time the thread is updated but not when you re-edit your post... or could you simply send out a message saying you modified your post. Thank you for all your hard work, I would not be able to configure 3D graphics without your help.

I have a ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M on AMD 64.
uname -a says:
Linux mycroft 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 20:23:46 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
till your next update then...

Hi ,

Thank you for letting me know :cool: , I have edited post #1 with the change .

Also, is there a way of getting an auto notification when update your first instruction, I get one each time the thread is updated but not when you re-edit your post... or could you simply send out a message saying you modified your post. Thank you for all your hard work, I would not be able to configure 3D graphics without your help.

I will post to the thread in future when I edit post #1

Thanks

Leigh

[typist]

Hi Leigh,

I have another problem now, I cannot seem to exit out of 3D games smoothly. The games run and seem to work all right, but whenever I exit the game, the display hangs and I have to restart X server.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Mark.

[lester81]

hey leigh, I just installed ati drivers from your howto then system goes blank screen randomly kerneloops errors and kernel bugs..etc any idea ?

Same issue for me... :(

I also have compiz installed and when i start fusion-icon, following message is displayed:


Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#2] SMP
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: Process glxinfo (pid: 30814, ti=efe7a000 task=efa4e000 task.ti=efe7a000)
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: Stack: c06d3792 f1414030 efa4e000 00000003 efa4e000 f1414030 00000000 00000000
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: 00000000 f1414030 efa4e000 eea5b000 efe7aee4 c04cf76a efa4e000 f8c36a00
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: Call Trace:
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c04cb379>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c042d0ab>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c04cf76a>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c042d0d2>] ? capable+0x10/0x12
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<f8b0c4e7>] ? firegl_ioctl+0xe7/0x220 [fglrx]
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c0484388>] ? chrdev_open+0x0/0x12c
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c04cffd5>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<f8b11160>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c048c644>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c048c896>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c04d016b>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c048c8e9>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: =======================
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: EIP: [<c04cf71d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:efe7ae84
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<f8b0373b>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 92 37 6d c0 e8 c1 f3 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

[Nokia]

Same issue for me... :(

I also have compiz installed and when i start fusion-icon, following message is displayed:


Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#2] SMP
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: Process glxinfo (pid: 30814, ti=efe7a000 task=efa4e000 task.ti=efe7a000)
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: Stack: c06d3792 f1414030 efa4e000 00000003 efa4e000 f1414030 00000000 00000000
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: 00000000 f1414030 efa4e000 eea5b000 efe7aee4 c04cf76a efa4e000 f8c36a00
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: Call Trace:
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c04cb379>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c042d0ab>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c04cf76a>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c042d0d2>] ? capable+0x10/0x12
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<f8b0c4e7>] ? firegl_ioctl+0xe7/0x220 [fglrx]
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c0484388>] ? chrdev_open+0x0/0x12c
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c04cffd5>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<f8b11160>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c048c644>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c048c896>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c04d016b>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c048c8e9>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: =======================
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: EIP: [<c04cf71d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:efe7ae84
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: [<f8b0373b>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]
Message from syslogd@ at Sun Jul 20 10:22:43 2008 ...
u22_29 kernel: Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 92 37 6d c0 e8 c1 f3 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52



Try the followingsu -
setenforce 0
yum -v update --enablerepo=updates-testing
touch /.autorelabel
reboot

[citojaso]

I have a laptop with a radeon xpress 200m video card on the motherboard. I've tried several time to get compiz working but the only thing that works is wobbly windows and the standard 'cube'. I've tried to follow leigh's instructions to downgrade the xorg server and that didn't work for me. Now, for my real problem. I tried to reverse the downgrade and I guess I made a mistake cause I now have no video driver. I can only boot to a terminal. When I try to install drivers with yum I get a message saying Temporary Failure in Name Resolution. I know i should try to be more knowledgable about the terminal and will definitly do some learning but for now i'm lost without a gui. I am using my desktop to send this so there is no way i can post the output from commands unless i type them out ( i can't seem to mount any kind of external drive).

If I boot from the dvd i used to install, and select to rescue i can start my etho1 and i can ping other machines on my network but yum still gives the same message. I really need help getting connected to the internet or getting my cd-drive mounted so i can install the driver package from my install dvd.

If all else fails i can always do a fresh install, but i would rather not as i have a lot of files i would rather not loose.

Any help would be great!!

Oh yeah, I've searched till i'm blue and can find no helpful info for my problems. Maybe someone could give me some new phrases to use in my search? Been at this so long i got brain freeze.

Thanks y'all

[lester81]

Try the following

setenforce 0



Do you mean i have to disable SELinux? Is it necessary?

[Nokia]

Yes. Right now there's a problem regarding fglrx and Selinux

[lordamus]

yeah... my selinux is permissive but still I`ve prblems system going black screen random time... is totally disabling selinux threats the prblem ?

[kevmif]

Friggin hell... been hanging out for the new ATI driver hoping for support, but alas - nothing is mentioned.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_87_linux.html

Has anyone tried it anyway?

[IBBoard]

Livna haven't got an update out yet (I'm probably a bit quick!) but it looks like 8.7 won't support XOrg 7.4 (http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html) :(

Automated installer and Display Drivers for X.Org 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

I've not tested it yet, but it's not listed so it doesn't look promising.

[Demz]

from what iv'e read about those drivers there aint much difference between the 8.6 ,, only bug fix's

[kazakx]

I have no window borders when i try to change the settings with CompizConfig Settings manager with this guide on the first page. I have to remove the "rm -rf .gcong/apps/compiz" and restart x to get my window borders back. Everything else is working well. But i have to stick to de defaults :(

What is going wrong?

[leigh123linux]

I have no window borders when i try to change the settings with CompizConfig Settings manager with this guide on the first page. I have to remove the "rm -rf .gcong/apps/compiz" and restart x to get my window borders back. Everything else is working well. But i have to stick to de defaults :(

What is going wrong?

How are you starting compiz ?

what version of compiz ?

compiz --version

[kazakx]

I am using fedora 9. Compiz is default started ( i think the first time a selected with Preferences--Look and feel --Desktop effects. And then only "Enable desktop effects"

Compiz version: 0.7.7

[leigh123linux]

I am using fedora 9. Compiz is default started ( i think the first time a selected with Preferences--Look and feel --Desktop effects. And then only "Enable desktop effects"

Compiz version: 0.7.7

The Desktop effects menu entry fails to communicate with ccsm !

Try this command to start the effects

compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp


Or use fusion-icon instead to start the effects.


Can you also post


rpm -qa | grep compiz


and


rpm -qa | grep emerald

[IBBoard]

"Preferences--Look and feel --Desktop effects" sounds like the default version. What does it say when you run "rpm -qa compiz*"?

[danielc]

Thnx, gonna try it when i have finished the fedora 9 download.
Does this have 3D acceleration?

[MikeLococo]

Catalyst 8.7 released yesterday. Haven't tested yet, but it may fix compatibility with recent kernel/X updates:

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html

- Mike Lococo

[IBBoard]

I beat you too it (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1050669&postcount=88) :) I'm not so confident about XOrg compatibility from reading the info.

[MikeLococo]

I beat you too it

Ah, your post had slid off the last page, where I assumed there would be discussion (or at least griping) if it had been mentioned.

I'm not so confident about XOrg compatibility from reading the info.

Yeah, no Xorg 7.4 support listed. I find it awe inspiring that Fedora 9 will be (at least) halfway through its 6 month cycle as the primary release by the time ATI gets around to releasing drivers for it.

RANT
I know everybody says this when they're frustrated, but I'm seriously, actually done buying ATI products for the next year or two until they get their driver release cycle together. This happened with Fedora 8 as well, which means that I've actually spent 4 of the last 8 months waiting to upgrade my box due to ATI driver release stupidity. I don't deal with this BS on my two boxen running NVidia kit, not that I don't see problems there too... but not like this where they just fail support mainstream configurations for 3 months at a time.
/RANT

Thanks,
Mike

[typist]

I have another problem now, I cannot seem to exit out of 3D games smoothly. The games run and seem to work all right, but whenever I exit the game, the display hangs and I have to restart X server.
.

I figured the source of the problem but I do not know how to correct it.
When I run fglrxinfo I get this:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7659 Release

Segmentation fault


When I run fglrxinfo -v I get this:

display: :0.0 screen:0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7659 Release
OpenGL extensions:
GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_multisample,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
GL_ATI_meminfo, GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object,
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_WIN_swap_hint, WGL_EXT_swap_control
glx server vendor string: SGI
glx server version string: 1.2
glx server extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
glx client version: 1.4
glx client extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group

Visual ID: 23 depth=24 class=TrueColor
bufferSize=32 level=0 renderType=rgba doubleBuffer=1 stereo=0
rgba: redSize=8 greenSize=8 blueSize=8 alphaSize=8
auxBuffers=0 depthSize=24 stencilSize=8
accum: redSize=16 greenSize=16 blueSize=16 alphaSize=16
multiSample=0 multiSampleBuffers=0
Opaque.

--- snip, lines too long --

Visual ID: 86 depth=32 class=TrueColor
bufferSize=32 level=0 renderType=rgba doubleBuffer=0 stereo=0
rgba: redSize=8 greenSize=8 blueSize=8 alphaSize=8
auxBuffers=0 depthSize=0 stencilSize=0
accum: redSize=0 greenSize=0 blueSize=0 alphaSize=0
multiSample=4 multiSampleBuffers=1
Opaque.
Segmentation fault


I do not know why there is a core dump, but I do know fglrxinfo should not be giving me one. I followed Leigh's instructions on topic 1 of this post as it exists right now.

Any further help would be much appreciated. I have an ATI Radeon XPress 200M card and the following other relevant information

$ uname -a
Linux mycroft 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 20:23:46 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$


The thing is fgl_glxgears runs correctly and smoothly, it also quits without any core dump.
Thanks for any help.

[typist]

I figured the source of the problem but I do not know how to correct it.
When I run fglrxinfo I get this:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7659 Release

Segmentation fault


Sigh in my eagerness to get rid of this problem I updated the kernel and xorg
and everything stopped working. Its with a heavy heart that I say Leigh's uninstall instructions work correctly too. :(

I wont be retrying till Leigh posts updates to the initial instructions to this thread, coz I do not have the time right now to futz with the putz. No 3D for me!

For what its worth:


$ uname -a
Linux mycroft 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 21 01:09:10 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ rpm -qa|grep xorg-x11-server
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-1.fc9.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.905-2.20080702.fc9.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.905-2.20080702.fc9.x86_64


l8r

[kazakx]

The Desktop effects menu entry fails to communicate with ccsm !

Try this command to start the effects

compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp


Or use fusion-icon instead to start the effects.


Can you also post


rpm -qa | grep compiz


and


rpm -qa | grep emerald
Hi leigh, the fusion icon did do the trick thnx.

There is one question left. When i play video (totem or kaffeine in gnome) and when i put a window partly over de movie window then the shadow of this window is entirely black on the movie frame. So no smooth shadowing on the movie window. Is there a wat to fix this? I see this only on movie windows.

[leigh123linux]

Hi leigh, the fusion icon did do the trick thnx.

There is one question left. When i play video (totem or kaffeine in gnome) and when i put a window partly over de movie window then the shadow of this window is entirely black on the movie frame. So no smooth shadowing on the movie window. Is there a wat to fix this? I see this only on movie windows.


Try selecting another video driver in the kaffeine settings / preferences !

[jcatfolsom]

Hi
I have a fresh install of fedora9 sulphur and I've followed the how to on fglrx and xgl compiz/beryl.
I'm now unable to get to the gui. The main boot error is checking for module fglrx.ko fglrx.ko for kernel 2.26.10-86.fc9.i686 was not found fglrx.DRI will not start until one is found.
I've read elsewhere that reinstalling the device driver will fix the problem but I don't want to do this in case I mess up another part of the installation.

[kazakx]

Try selecting another video driver in the kaffeine settings / preferences !

Nope. Didn't work. I have it with all the movie players :confused:

[iyamd]

Hello Gentle GURU people....From a new poster who bought the Visiontek HD 4870 ATI card because it had the linux logo on it and now finds out that there are no linux drivers for this board available from anybody... not from ATI not from Visiontek and after 2 days of searching the web not from nobody...arrrggh!

So do you gentle folks think this process will work for putting FGLRX on FC9 I have not been able to do it.

I want to put FGLRX on FC9 because I found one site that seems to be (ATI-DRIVER-INSTALLER) very promising but I can't get FGLRX to work after I install their driver...taking the "fglrx" out and replacing it with "ati" in the xorg.conf file just reverts back to the original no devices error message.

I have a request in to the "Feedback Crew" but also looking for any help I can get...

Any thoughts?

Thanks

[fitlad]

After I removed xorg as rocommended I got this error when I wanted to proceed to the next step of this guideline.

[root@Talal fitlad]# rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils
error: package mesa-libGL-devel is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU-devel is not installed

Please, help me to fix this error.

[fitlad]

I got another error when I tried to group install fc8 xorg;

mesa-libGL-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Error: mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg

Please help me

[iyamd]

Hey Doc Leigh...any thoughts on this?

[lordamus]

now I get black screen on video`s like xvid or divx or any other cant watch anything.. any idea ? f9 with f8 xorg fglrx ati x200

[myname74119]

when i type glxinfo
[root@localhost ~]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7659 Release
OpenGL extensions:
GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_multisample,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
GL_ATI_meminfo, GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object,
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_WIN_swap_hint, WGL_EXT_swap_control

73 GLX Visuals
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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0x5b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
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0x65 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x66 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x67 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x68 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x69 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6a 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
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0x86 32 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 Ncon



Segmentation fault
and when use fglrxinfo
[root@localhost ~]# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7659 Release

Segmentation fault

:Segmentation fault" what that mean ? how to fix it?
please help me.

[cjmac87]

I'm new and confused.
Used this guide in my attempt to get 3d going... and somehow failed twice to get the system back up and running afterwords..

My question.... should i go back and try again... and what's the latest news for getting an ati card working on fedora 9... i'd rather have it all updated. Anyhow, my direct rendering seems to b e the only real problem... I hope.
Suggestions? Has other people got this running with a fedora 8 downgradE?

[IBBoard]

I've been using my Radeon X800 XL with the drivers from Livna since not long after Leigh posted these instructions with the downgrade. It's a bit of a pain to downgrade, but I guess that's what you get for running a more cutting-edge distro that includes in its release software that was only just out of RC as the distro was released.

iyamd: According to Phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ati_radeonhd_4870&num=1) it might be on the driver disk, as the 4870 had release day driver support. It also apparently ran straight out of the box (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ati_radeonhd_4870&num=3) with FGLRX 8.6 on Ubuntu.

[leigh123linux]

After I removed xorg as rocommended I got this error when I wanted to proceed to the next step of this guideline.

[root@Talal fitlad]# rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils
error: package mesa-libGL-devel is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU-devel is not installed

Please, help me to fix this error.


Try


su
rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils

[nildon]

I followed the F9 guide and while installing driver...
akmods --force
bash: akmods: command not found

service fglrx restart
bash: service: command not found
:confused:

btw good work with those guides ;)

[leigh123linux]

I followed the F9 guide and while installing driver...
akmods --force
bash: akmods: command not found

service fglrx restart
bash: service: command not found
:confused:

btw good work with those guides ;)

Use full root i.e su - (don't omit the dash)

[fitlad]

Try


su
rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils

Does this code going to prevent the following error when I proceed to groupinstall fc8 xorg?
please clarify.
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Error: mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg

[nildon]

Use full root i.e su - (don't omit the dash)
thank you, another problem :(
akmods --force
Checking kmods exist for 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 [WARNING]
Building and installing fglrx-kmod [ OK ]

service fglrx restart
Checking for module fglrx.ko: [ OK ]
Enabling the fglrx driver: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/fglrx-config-display", line 152, in <module>
app = fglrxConfigDisplay()
File "/usr/sbin/fglrx-config-display", line 35, in __init__
GlxConfig.__init__(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/GlxConfig.py", line41, in __init__
LivnaConfigDisplay.__init__(self, isVerbose)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/ConfigDisplay.py", line 45, in __init__
raise livnaConfigDisplayError(XORG_NOT_FOUND)
livnaConfigDisplay.livnaConfigDisplayError: Could not read the Xorg configuration file.
Please make sure the configuration exists and it is correctly installed.
[FAILED]
edit: maybe it's because I loged out and logged as root? (did it before your post)

edit2: [root@localhost X11]# ls
applnk prefdm xdm Xmodmap Xresources
fontpath.d twm xinit xorg.cong.screwed-up

xorg.conf seems to be missing

edit3: renamed to xorg.conf.screwed-up and rebooted...no change :(
how can I get default xorg.conf?

[leigh123linux]

thank you, another problem :(
akmods --force
Checking kmods exist for 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 [WARNING]
Building and installing fglrx-kmod [ OK ]

service fglrx restart
Checking for module fglrx.ko: [ OK ]
Enabling the fglrx driver: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/fglrx-config-display", line 152, in <module>
app = fglrxConfigDisplay()
File "/usr/sbin/fglrx-config-display", line 35, in __init__
GlxConfig.__init__(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/GlxConfig.py", line41, in __init__
LivnaConfigDisplay.__init__(self, isVerbose)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/ConfigDisplay.py", line 45, in __init__
raise livnaConfigDisplayError(XORG_NOT_FOUND)
livnaConfigDisplay.livnaConfigDisplayError: Could not read the Xorg configuration file.
Please make sure the configuration exists and it is correctly installed.
[FAILED]
edit: maybe it's because I loged out and logged as root? (did it before your post)

edit2: [root@localhost X11]# ls
applnk prefdm xdm Xmodmap Xresources
fontpath.d twm xinit xorg.cong.screwed-up

xorg.conf seems to be missing

edit3: renamed to xorg.conf.screwed-up and rebooted...no change :(
how can I get default xorg.conf?

Try

su
wget http://leigh123.homelinux.com/ad/xorg.conf -O /etc/X11/xorg.conf

RestartX

[nildon]

Try

su
wget http://leigh123.homelinux.com/ad/xorg.conf -O /etc/X11/xorg.conf

RestartX
done, thanks for help :)

Now I've done the 3 steps in whis guide. Is there any method to ensure if everything is ok?
After typing fglrxinfo I get output:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
And after command glxgears white window opens and everithing freezes and I must restart my notebook.

edit: After reboot glxgears works great, I'll try to install compiz now, many thanks :cool:

[keenanparm]

Hey folks,

I'm in unfamiliar territory here, so I figured I'd get your advice. I followed the instructions in this guide (very detailed, thank you!), but I have this weird intermittent problem now.

I log in locally to KDE or GNOME, start using the computer, and then my screen goes black suddenly. No, it's not the monitors (I have dual display, but not configured so it's just mirroring), I can see the back-light is still on, and they are receiving some signal. I try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X, but that doesn't work. I try Ctrl+Alt+Del, and that doesn't work either. I have to do a hard shutdown and restart. When I log back in, I get some message about a kernel failure, asking me to report:
Your system had a kernel failure
There is diagnostic information available for this failure. Do you want to submit this information to the www.kerneloops.org website for use by the Linux kernel developers?

The "kernel failure" doesn't seem to have any pattern. I can be browsing through the GNOME menu's one instant, configuring compiz the next instant, or just running Firefox. This problem does not happen when I log in through SSH or VNC.

Since this only happens when I seem to be using graphics acceleration, I'm left with the conclusion that this might have something to do with my X.org or the Catalyst drivers. Anybody have any ideas?

I have a Radeon X1950XT video card, if that helps.

[CraigWatson]

Leigh - you are an absolute genius! I had no end of headaches trying to get my new shiny ATI HD4870 running at all (either on on Fedora 8 or 9, either 32bit or 64bit versions) but your guide worked a dream :D.

I now have Compiz and full resolutions working on my two monitors (one 22" widescreen @ 1680x1050 and one 17" 4:3 @ 1280x1024 - stiched together with Xinerama) on Fedora 9 64bit.

All hail Leigh! :D

[CraigWatson]

Looks like I spoke too soon ... on checking if the card is being detected after a reboot, glxinfo and fglrxinfo both hang and fusion-icon refuses to start - probably because it relies on glxinfo for some of it's information?

Any ideas? Weirdly it was working perfectly before I rebooted :confused:

[Nokia]

There goes our genius...:D

Do you think Leigh has the ability to guess which of the four OS-es is giving you a headache ? Not to mention you have a fairly new video card, and there might be a ton of driver issues still to be resolved by ATI (who hasn't release a driver supporting F9 in the last 3+ months :| )

[CraigWatson]

Sorry I should probably have made it clear in the original message - I stuck with Fedora 9 64bit in the end because it's the only one I tried that booted to any kind of GUI!

As for driver issues, I would assume that if it was a driver issue then the setup wouldn't work at all? It did work (fusion-icon started, switched to Compiz and gave me the awful "wobbly windows" effect) but it seems something's broken it. I can also enable Compiz via the Desktop Effects dialog, but when I do this I lose window decorations. This is my xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen "Screen1"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,CRT+LFP"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,CRT+LFP"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection


Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Edit
The problem looks to me my Xinerama setup - I went back to mirrored displays and fusion-icon loaded.

[IBBoard]

Do you use SELinux? It has been a while since I had it enabled now, but when I first installed FGLRX on F9 then there's a kernel ooops that SELinux catches but which FGLRX passes an incorrect value to (I think). I can't remember the actual problem, but I do remember that I couldn't run FGLRX with SELinux enabled. I've yet to try re-enabling it, though. I can't remember whether it was a Compiz only issue as well, or whether it occurred with Metacity.

[leigh123linux]

Sorry I should probably have made it clear in the original message - I stuck with Fedora 9 64bit in the end because it's the only one I tried that booted to any kind of GUI!

As for driver issues, I would assume that if it was a driver issue then the setup wouldn't work at all? It did work (fusion-icon started, switched to Compiz and gave me the awful "wobbly windows" effect) but it seems something's broken it. I can also enable Compiz via the Desktop Effects dialog, but when I do this I lose window decorations. This is my xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen "Screen1"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,CRT+LFP"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,CRT+LFP"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection


Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Edit
The problem looks to me my Xinerama setup - I went back to mirrored displays and fusion-icon loaded.


Compiz has always had issues with xinerama !


As for the desktop menu launcher , it fails to communicate with ccsm ( hence no window borders & no plugin control )

Try this command instead ! ( you could edit the desktop menu launcher to use this command instead)

compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp

[leigh123linux]

Hey Doc Leigh...any thoughts on this?


It should work ! ( if you have tried different fglrx drivers you may have damaged your install , try reinstalling fedora and use the info on post #1 to install the driver )


http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=155503&page=97&pp=20


posts # 1937 - 1940

[CraigWatson]

Compiz has always had issues with xinerama !


As for the desktop menu launcher , it fails to communicate with ccsm ( hence no window borders & no plugin control )

Try this command instead ! ( you could edit the desktop menu launcher to use this command instead)

compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp

Output of that command:
[craig@localhost ~]$ compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp
compiz (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Any ideas from there?

[leigh123linux]

Output of that command:
[craig@localhost ~]$ compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp
compiz (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Any ideas from there?


Try


compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp --indirect-rendering

[CraigWatson]

Cheers for the help Leigh, even with indirect rendering I get exactly the same output :(

Lack of Compiz isn't a massive problem - though it is slightly frustrating to have a beast of a graphics card that's being limited by drivers.

[Lukast]

Why are linuxwacom packages excluded? I got ATI and Wacom tablet. So that means I can't have working Wacom Tablet and direct rendering?

[leigh123linux]

Why are linuxwacom packages excluded? I got ATI and Wacom tablet. So that means I can't have working Wacom Tablet and direct rendering?


There not ! ( I only excluded the F9 versions , I added F8 versions instead )

Section 1 add a F8 repo

1. Downgrade the xorg server ( Compiz will be removed as a dep and will need to be reinstalled after )

Remove the F9 Xserver and bits and install the fedora8.repo


su
wget http://www.linux-ati-drivers.homecall.co.uk/fedora8.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora8.repo



fedora8.repo

[fedora8-main]
name=Fedora 8 - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
includepkgs=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics

[fedora8-updates]
name=Fedora 8 - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
includepkgs=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics

[Nokia]

Here might be a fix Craig...

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6896

[cjmac87]

need a bit of help here if you don't mind..

I was able to get Fedora 9 running with the f8 downgrade... despite some problems at the boot screen.
Oddly enough, compiz is able to run.... however... while running... I get to a blank screen.

Direct rendering is now working.

I suspect the problem to be the message received on start-up.

fglrx.ko Failed to Load

along with kernel issues in 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686

another question about this downgrade. will all my updates be for fedroa 8 only, or only y video updates?

--

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

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 "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

--

[Wayne]

Would you mind posting to only one thread about a given topic. It gets hard for the people who are trying to help you following you all over the forum. You may get one answer in one thread and something different in another. Cross-posting is also against forum rules.

Wayne

[IBBoard]

cjmac87: What does it say in /var/log/messages and in ll /var/log/setroubleshoot/setroubleshootd.log? I think I got a blank screen using FGLRX with SELinux still enabled at first.

[robert-e]

Hi,
I am having problems getting compiz working. I have the compiz fusion-icon and the compiz config settings manager showing under the System, and Settings menu on KDE3.5. When I click the Compiz Fusion-Icon selection, it "bounces the icon" for about 30 seconds, and then stops. Nothing else happens, and the disktop does not change. If I click the ccsm selection, that program runs. (I noticed in one of the tabs that a resolution mode of 640 x 480 0,0 is the only one shown. Normal?)
I have looked through the posts here, and have included all of the information that I could find that might be useful to you. Can you offer any suggestions to help me get this working. I am suspicious of my xorg.conf...it seems rather small compared to most posted by others.

Thank you.
Bob

[keenanparm]

Do you use SELinux?

IBBoard: That seemed to do the trick for me. No kerneloops in a few days. Thanks a bunch for the suggestion!

Sounds like a cool new breakfast cereal, "Kernel Oops!" like "Captain Crunch!"

[IBBoard]

Oh well, at least I know not to enable SELinux yet if it's still causing problems :D

[MaxIsBored]

What are we to do if the card (such as my xpress x1100) is not supported by fglrx, and the standard livna fc9 driver does not work properly?

Often when I boot up, my screen goes all fuzzy as if it's a VCR and the tracking is off, and anytime the machine goes into standby, the same thing happens.. I'm also assuming that's why compiz makes my screen entirely white, with only a pointer, making me have to log in and out (as opposed to rebooting) of the machine? I've done a ton of searching, but somehow can't find anyone with a similar problem who has had it resolved..

Anyone got any ideas? I've been trying to get this thing working for weeks :(

Edit: If this is a common question, and i have somehow missed a guide to it, the link would be much appreciated.

[CraigWatson]

The "white screen of death" is pretty infamous with Compiz, and nearly always points to driver problems (unfortunately one of the ATI hallmarks) and incompatability. It would help if you posted your xorg.conf file, but try adding this to the Device section:


Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

[MaxIsBored]

I'm stuck at work. I'll have my xorg conf, and xorg log when i'm off in a few hours.. I didn't think I'd get such a fast reply.

I will add that to my xorg, and keep you posted.

Thanks =)

[rkl]

... but not like this where they just fail support mainstream configurations for 3 months at a time.

To be honest, I think the Fedora team got caught with their pants down when they decided to use a beta X server as the basis for F9 development tree. Their (probably not unreasonable at the time) assumption was that the X server would move to its final release before F9 final came out. By the time they realised it wouldn't, perhaps it was too late to back out.

As you said, months have passed and *still* no sign of the final release of the X server that F9 is using, which sadly just increasingly emphasises what a big mistake it was for Fedora to use that release in the first place.

It should be noted here that I don't think you can rant too much at ATI (because the X server isn't final), although I think they should have beta releases of their driver to match X server betas really (ATI might argue, though, that their monthly release schedule negates the need for betas). Also remember that Nvidia don't have a production driver for the F9 X server either (I haven't looked at the beta releases of Nvidia's driver - I'm just going on what's available on livna, which for F9 is *absolutely zero* for both ATI and Nvidia drivers).

The upshot of it all is that although I've had F9 installed on a partition virtually from its release and I continue to "yum update" it (and "yum search fglrx" forlornly in the hope livna will have something), I simply refuse to move from my F8 partition until a livna fglrx RPM turns up. At this rate, it's looking quite likely I'll have to skip F9 completely and go for F10 (but will the F9 X server used go to final in time for F10?!!).

I personally blame the Fedora team for this one - even if backing out the beta X server cost them a few features and a few extra weeks of work, it would have been a far superior solution. I mean, what exactly does the F9 X server give you that the F8 X server doesn't?

[MaxIsBored]

Done - Here's my xorg.conf, still getting white screen of death.

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[MaxIsBored]

Anything in here give advice?
(II) RADEON(0): XAA Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer. Please use EXA instead.
So i changed to EXA, same issues though. :(

[lordamus]

leigh123; Any idea for black screen problem in video`s like xvid divx mpeg..etc ? I`m using f8 xorg and compiz fusion

here is my xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
# Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
# Option "AGPMode" "1"
# Option "EnablePageFlip" "1"
# Option "ColorTiling" "1"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 1280 800
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[maitrebart]

leigh123; Any idea for black screen problem in video`s like xvid divx mpeg..etc ? I`m using f8 xorg and compiz fusion
[...]
EndSection

In my case, I had 2 problems:

1) Black screen:

With xawtv, it was blacking out the whole screen. I had to call a virtual console (e.g. ctl-alt-1), wait for the video mode the change, and get back to X (ctl-alt-7). Also note that I had to start xawtv with the -noxv option; then I was able to see the video, but it was (and still is) flashy.

2) Black video:

With tvtime, I couldn't see any video in the window because it was black out. I then found out that there is some kind of incompatibility betwwen fglrx and compiz for the video overlay. So the solution is to disable either the compiz effects or the window manager.

I'm using Ubuntu now (was using Fedora before) and in the System|Appearance|Visual Effects menu I choose the None option. I hope there is about the same menus in Fedora. This disables compiz and tvtime starts working ok. I think xawtv still black out the screen though, but you can recover it as I mentionned in 1.

Note that you can always get the compiz effects back via the same menu without leaving your login session. You could also setup 2 different login sessions: one that you use with compiz, and the other without compiz. In that case, you have to login/logout in order to view video.

[leigh123linux]

leigh123; Any idea for black screen problem in video`s like xvid divx mpeg..etc ? I`m using f8 xorg and compiz fusion

here is my xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
# Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
# Option "AGPMode" "1"
# Option "EnablePageFlip" "1"
# Option "ColorTiling" "1"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 1280 800
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


Try this xorg.conf ( all the bits marked in red are unsupported by fglrx as far as I know ) , have you tried disabling selinux ?


# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers"

EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

[MaxIsBored]

Got any advice to point my way, Leigh?

[leigh123linux]

Got any advice to point my way, Leigh?


I have never used to open source Radeon driver but this link may help !

http://compiz.org/ATI

[leigh123linux]

To be honest, I think the Fedora team got caught with their pants down when they decided to use a beta X server as the basis for F9 development tree. Their (probably not unreasonable at the time) assumption was that the X server would move to its final release before F9 final came out. By the time they realised it wouldn't, perhaps it was too late to back out.

As you said, months have passed and *still* no sign of the final release of the X server that F9 is using, which sadly just increasingly emphasises what a big mistake it was for Fedora to use that release in the first place.

It should be noted here that I don't think you can rant too much at ATI (because the X server isn't final), although I think they should have beta releases of their driver to match X server betas really (ATI might argue, though, that their monthly release schedule negates the need for betas). Also remember that Nvidia don't have a production driver for the F9 X server either (I haven't looked at the beta releases of Nvidia's driver - I'm just going on what's available on livna, which for F9 is *absolutely zero* for both ATI and Nvidia drivers).

The upshot of it all is that although I've had F9 installed on a partition virtually from its release and I continue to "yum update" it (and "yum search fglrx" forlornly in the hope livna will have something), I simply refuse to move from my F8 partition until a livna fglrx RPM turns up. At this rate, it's looking quite likely I'll have to skip F9 completely and go for F10 (but will the F9 X server used go to final in time for F10?!!).

I personally blame the Fedora team for this one - even if backing out the beta X server cost them a few features and a few extra weeks of work, it would have been a far superior solution. I mean, what exactly does the F9 X server give you that the F8 X server doesn't?


It should be noted here that I don't think you can rant too much at ATI (because the X server isn't final)

The Xorg server ABI was finalized months ago !! , there is no reason why ATI can't support it !!


Also remember that Nvidia don't have a production driver for the F9 X server either (I haven't looked at the beta releases of Nvidia's driver

Nvidia has supported the new Xorg server for months !!

[rkl]

The Xorg server ABI was finalized months ago !! , there is no reason why ATI can't support it !!
If the X.org server ABI was finalised months ago, then why on earth isn't the server out of beta yet? I must confess to not following X.org's development closely, but haven't they left their server in beta state for much longer than F9 final has been out?

I also haven't looked at whether other distros include the X.org beta server or not - is F9 the only distro out to include it in their final release? If so, then perhaps you can understand ATI's reluctance to support it.

Nvidia has supported the new Xorg server for months !!In a final release of an Nvidia driver or in a beta one? If it is in a final release, then why don't livna have it? I don't know about you, but I'm wary about beta-anything on my everyday desktop, particularly for crucial items like the X server and the 3D driver for it. I just got burned badly by Nvidia's beta driver for the 6150LE that I use on a Dimension desktop with CentOS 5 - totally broke when the latest CentOS 5 kernel was released (the X server with CentOS 5 is a rock solid stable one, so this is the Nivida driver to blame here) - had to go back to the "nv" driver and boring old 2D again.

As I said, unless F9 updates to a stable X server release (either downgrades it to the one F8 uses or X.org finally come out with the final version of the one F9 uses), all this talk of 3D drivers, Nvidia/ATI and beta stuff is pretty irrelevant. I'm sticking with F8 and as each week progresses, it's likely I'll just give up on F9 as a lost cause and wait for F10.

[dhlacik]

Guys, it works perfect although my VLC and also Totem, does not play video correct - video is
"blinking" - problem with OpenGL? - how to solve it?

[IBBoard]

I don't know about Totem, but have you tried changing VLC's video output module to X11? I had video issues with FGLRX and Compiz at first but using X11 solved it.

[dhlacik]

Well , i found that it is related with vsync . When i go to Desktop Effect and disable compiz, it works fine, when i enable it - i have a problem.

[MaxIsBored]

Oh nice, turning on DRI got compiz working!
still getting the weird occasional dysfunctional bootups though.

[cjmac87]

I have never used to open source Radeon driver but this link may help !

http://compiz.org/ATI

I took a look at that page. According to that info, AIGLX is not supported by flgrx.
However we turned on AIGRX thourgh the xorg configuration if I'm correct.

Is that still right, and can we use XGL in Fedora? is EXA supported with flgrx?

[cjmac87]

I get this error at start-up:

Checking for module fglrx.ko: [FAILED]
fglrx.ko for kernel 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 was not found. [WARNING]
fglrx DRI will not be enabled until one is found. [WARNING]


I've read a bit, and it seems it may be due to a mismatch in versions of the kernel and modules. Problem is I have no idea how to fix that.
Any advice?

my glxinfo seems to be fine, and I have compiz running with stability under leigh's guide. Anyhow, I installed World Of Warcraft with the disappoint of getting 1 fps. Would fixing this error help that... and if not what would?
Thanks for help, much appreciated. I did notice others having problems with this in the past but the circumstances were all a litle different. name of display: :0.0

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1650 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
OpenGL extensions:
GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_multisample,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
GL_ATI_meminfo, GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_shader_texture_lod,
GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object,
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_WIN_swap_hint, WGL_EXT_swap_control

[leigh123linux]

I took a look at that page. According to that info, AIGLX is not supported by flgrx.
However we turned on AIGRX thourgh the xorg configuration if I'm correct.

Is that still right, and can we use XGL in Fedora? is EXA supported with flgrx?


The page I linked was nearly two years old ! ( the info there is only relevant to the open source Radeon driver )

[leigh123linux]

I get this error at start-up:

Checking for module fglrx.ko: [FAILED]
fglrx.ko for kernel 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 was not found. [WARNING]
fglrx DRI will not be enabled until one is found. [WARNING]


I've read a bit, and it seems it may be due to a mismatch in versions of the kernel and modules. Problem is I have no idea how to fix that.
Any advice?

my glxinfo seems to be fine, and I have compiz running with stability under leigh's guide. Anyhow, I installed World Of Warcraft with the disappoint of getting 1 fps. Would fixing this error help that... and if not what would?
Thanks for help, much appreciated. I did notice others having problems with this in the past but the circumstances were all a litle different. name of display: :0.0

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1650 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
OpenGL extensions:
GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_multisample,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
GL_ATI_meminfo, GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_shader_texture_lod,
GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object,
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_WIN_swap_hint, WGL_EXT_swap_control

Thread merged!

[seeker010]

If the X.org server ABI was finalised months ago, then why on earth isn't the server out of beta yet? I must confess to not following X.org's development closely, but haven't they left their server in beta state for much longer than F9 final has been out?

I also haven't looked at whether other distros include the X.org beta server or not - is F9 the only distro out to include it in their final release? If so, then perhaps you can understand ATI's reluctance to support it.

In a final release of an Nvidia driver or in a beta one? If it is in a final release, then why don't livna have it? I don't know about you, but I'm wary about beta-anything on my everyday desktop, particularly for crucial items like the X server and the 3D driver for it. I just got burned badly by Nvidia's beta driver for the 6150LE that I use on a Dimension desktop with CentOS 5 - totally broke when the latest CentOS 5 kernel was released (the X server with CentOS 5 is a rock solid stable one, so this is the Nivida driver to blame here) - had to go back to the "nv" driver and boring old 2D again.

As I said, unless F9 updates to a stable X server release (either downgrades it to the one F8 uses or X.org finally come out with the final version of the one F9 uses), all this talk of 3D drivers, Nvidia/ATI and beta stuff is pretty irrelevant. I'm sticking with F8 and as each week progresses, it's likely I'll just give up on F9 as a lost cause and wait for F10.
I've been using the nvidia livna driver for weeks on my F9 Xorg. :confused: what makes you say it's not on livna?

[LDC]

I get this error at start-up:

Checking for module fglrx.ko: [FAILED]
fglrx.ko for kernel 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 was not found. [WARNING]
fglrx DRI will not be enabled until one is found. [WARNING]


I've read a bit, and it seems it may be due to a mismatch in versions of the kernel and modules. Problem is I have no idea how to fix that.
Any advice?

my glxinfo seems to be fine, and I have compiz running with stability under leigh's guide. Anyhow, I installed World Of Warcraft with the disappoint of getting 1 fps. Would fixing this error help that... and if not what would?
Thanks for help, much appreciated. I did notice others having problems with this in the past but the circumstances were all a litle different. name of display: :0.0

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1650 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
OpenGL extensions:
GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_multisample,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
GL_ATI_meminfo, GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_shader_texture_lod,
GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object,
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_WIN_swap_hint, WGL_EXT_swap_control

there is no way your glxinfo can be ok if you have not the fglrx.ko module running :D

my guess: you probably had all correct and working, then you updated the kernel... :)

post a bit more data (plus: compiz is not required to play WoW, you just need DRI...)


since leigh closed the other thread WHILE I was writing he will owe me a beer.

[leigh123linux]

there is no way your glxinfo can be ok if you have not the fglrx.ko module running :D

my guess: you probably had all correct and working, then you updated the kernel... :)

post a bit more data (plus: compiz is not required to play WoW, you just need DRI...)


since leigh closed the other thread WHILE I was writing he will owe me a beer.

Here's your beer ! :)

http://bedtea.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/beer.jpg


I don't answer posts with insufficient info now as my time is limited ( I am to busy with forum duties and package development to ask people to post the required info !! )

[LDC]

thanks, much appreciated :)
well that's obvious, so I ask them instead of you :D (and probably is the only thing that I can do well as you, later, when more info will -hopefully- come, will be your turn :P )

[cjmac87]

I dunno what is most useful to post. However, i thought aall is ok, but wow gives me a blue screen and some shawdows (at 30 fps). if i turn off aiglx, however, i go to 1 fps, but get some choppy real graphics.

the rest of glx info is a bunch of numbers if you want that.
my xorg.conf seems legit:b

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

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"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

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

[hxczach]

Hello.

I followed this guide very closely and everything appeared to be ok. The drivers installed fine, and everything else went ok, but when i try to enable desktop effect, my system locks up. I'm using kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686, and im wondering if maybe this is an issue(i've notice that other users have been using the older kernels)


Here is my x.org config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1440x900"
HorizSync 31.5 - 56.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection



rpm -qa |grep xorg-x11-server-Xorg gives me

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-47.fc8.i386


rpm -qa |grep fglrx gives me

xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i386
akmod-fglrx-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i686
kmod-fglrx-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i686
kmod-fglrx-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-8.512-1.8.07.fc9.i686


rpm -qa |grep kernel gives me

kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
kernel-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
kerneloops-0.11-1.fc9.i386
kernel-headers-2.6.25-14.fc9.i386


glxinfo |grep direct

direct rendering: Yes



Should i maybe use an older kernel? I know when i was using ubuntu, the newest hardy kernel wasn't compatible with ati's 8.7 drivers.


Thanks

[cjmac87]

There not ! ( I only excluded the F9 versions , I added F8 versions instead )

Section 1 add a F8 repo





fedora8.repo

[fedora8-main]
name=Fedora 8 - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
includepkgs=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics

[fedora8-updates]
name=Fedora 8 - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
includepkgs=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics

Followed this advise.
I ended up getting 72 various xorg updates, which seemed great at the time/
However, upon reboot my fglrx driver no longer worked. Now I'm stuck in root and I can only boot with the radeon driver.
Any advise?

[hxczach]

Followed this advise.
I ended up getting 72 various xorg updates, which seemed great at the time/
However, upon reboot my fglrx driver no longer worked. Now I'm stuck in root and I can only boot with the radeon driver.
Any advise?


Make sure you have your exclude lines set up in the /etc/yum.repo.d/fedora.repo and fedora updates(step 2)

[cjmac87]

I excluded them once again, however I once again am faced with this

(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)

[leigh123linux]

Hello.

I followed this guide very closely and everything appeared to be ok. The drivers installed fine, and everything else went ok, but when i try to enable desktop effect, my system locks up. I'm using kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686, and im wondering if maybe this is an issue(i've notice that other users have been using the older kernels)


Here is my x.org config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1440x900"
HorizSync 31.5 - 56.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection



rpm -qa |grep xorg-x11-server-Xorg gives me

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-47.fc8.i386


rpm -qa |grep fglrx gives me

xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i386
akmod-fglrx-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i686
kmod-fglrx-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i686
kmod-fglrx-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-8.512-1.8.07.fc9.i686


rpm -qa |grep kernel gives me

kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
kernel-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
kerneloops-0.11-1.fc9.i386
kernel-headers-2.6.25-14.fc9.i386


glxinfo |grep direct

direct rendering: Yes



Should i maybe use an older kernel? I know when i was using ubuntu, the newest hardy kernel wasn't compatible with ati's 8.7 drivers.


Thanks


Try disabling selinux !

[lordamus]

leigh, yea I disabled selinux and I did your xorg changes I`ll look what happens...

edit: still no video in windows...but when I move screen I get video very interesting...


here is my xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 1280 800
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[hxczach]

Try disabling selinux !


I just did that. It worked for a few seconds (poorly) then locked up. I wasn't even able to get into the terminal. I was "wobbling" my window, which had terrible pixelation on the edges and poor anti-aliasing, and then it locked up completely.

[Ehtetur]

leigh,.... I just want to say thank you for your easy to follow instructions...

I installed FC9 x64_86, upgraded almost 800 packages, then came here and got ATI and Compiz working....

If any admins are reading this or perhaps followed it to get ATI/Compiz working on your machines, :rolleyes: then you guys really should make this a sticky

[tssoimu]

hi.

I use Fedora 9 and I tried to install fglrx and compiz fusion on my notebook.

I tried 3 times to make this work but it did not. 3 time because I wanted to be sure it is not my mistake.
after I've finished all the steps I've rebooted the comp and the fglrx driver was not found because I did not have the kernel for it.
the kernel that I use right now is 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686

and one more thing. at the step 2 these 3 lines:
akmods --force
service fglrx restart
fglrx-config-display enable

did not work.
I do not quite understand what they mean but the computer told me that these are not commands. because I did not know what to do I've skipped this.

but then the graphical mode did not start. could this be the reason?

[Demz]

hi.

I use Fedora 9 and I tried to install fglrx and compiz fusion on my notebook.

I tried 3 times to make this work but it did not. 3 time because I wanted to be sure it is not my mistake.
after I've finished all the steps I've rebooted the comp and the fglrx driver was not found because I did not have the kernel for it.
the kernel that I use right now is 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686

and one more thing. at the step 2 these 3 lines:
akmods --force
service fglrx restart
fglrx-config-display enable

did not work.
I do not quite understand what they mean but the computer told me that these are not commands. because I did not know what to do I've skipped this.

but then the graphical mode did not start. could this be the reason?
try updating your kernel, thats a very old Kernel .. have you actually got the akmod installed? to findout do this
rpm -qa|grep akmod as i mentioned, try updating your kernel

[tssoimu]

hi.

about the lines in the second step at howto fglrx for F9:

akmods --force
service fglrx restart
fglrx-config-display enable

where and how do I force the akmods and restart the fglrx? in services?
and where and how do I enable the fglrx-config-display

[leigh123linux]

hi.

about the lines in the second step at howto fglrx for F9:

akmods --force
service fglrx restart
fglrx-config-display enable

where and how do I force the akmods and restart the fglrx? in services?
and where and how do I enable the fglrx-config-display


Just type the commands one line at a time into a terminal as full root i.e

su -
akmods --force
service fglrx restart
fglrx-config-display enable

[jiggadeed]

Tried to follow the guide line by line, but I got this:

[root@localhost downloads]# rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils
error: package mesa-libGL-devel is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU-devel is not installed
[root@localhost downloads]# perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
[root@localhost downloads]# perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
[root@localhost downloads]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Cleaning up Everything
[root@localhost downloads]# yum groupinstall "X Window System"
<<< BUNCHA STUFF >>>
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Error: mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
[root@localhost downloads]# rpm -qa xorg-x11-server-Xorg
[root@localhost downloads]# yum remove xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-server-common libsynaptics synaptics
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Excluding Packages from Fedora 9 - i386
Finished
Reducing Fedora 8 - i386 to included packages only
Finished
Excluding Packages from Fedora 9 - i386 - Updates
Finished
Reducing Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates to included packages only
Finished
No Match for argument: xorg-x11-server-Xorg
No Match for argument: xorg-x11-server-common
No Match for argument: libsynaptics
No Match for argument: synaptics
No Packages marked for removal
[root@localhost downloads]# yum groupinstall "X Window System"
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Excluding Packages from Fedora 9 - i386
Finished
Reducing Fedora 8 - i386 to included packages only
Finished
Excluding Packages from Fedora 9 - i386 - Updates
Finished
Reducing Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates to included packages only
Finished
Setting up Group Process
Package matching xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-3.fc8.noarch already installed. Checking for update.
<<< BUNCHA STUFF >>>
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Error: mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
[root@localhost downloads]# yum install mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel system-config-display system-config-keyboard firstboot libsynaptics synaptics
<<< BUNCHA STUFF >>>
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
mesa-libGL-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 from fedora8-updates has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: mesa-libGL = 7.0.2-3.fc8 is needed by package mesa-libGL-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 (fedora8-updates)
mesa-libGLU-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 from fedora8-updates has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: mesa-libGLU = 7.0.2-3.fc8 is needed by package mesa-libGLU-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 (fedora8-updates)
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Error: Missing Dependency: mesa-libGL = 7.0.2-3.fc8 is needed by package mesa-libGL-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 (fedora8-updates)
Error: Missing Dependency: mesa-libGLU = 7.0.2-3.fc8 is needed by package mesa-libGLU-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 (fedora8-updates)
Error: mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
[root@localhost downloads]#

[root@localhost downloads]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 14:08:11 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux



I ran this on a brand new FC9 install+yum update. No changes to Xorg and driver had not yet been installed. Any ideas?

[tssoimu]

Hi.

I've done that and this is what I get:

[root@localhost traian]# su -
[root@localhost ~]# akmods --force
Checking kmods exist for 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 [WARNING]
Devel-Files needed for building modules agaist 2.6.25-14.fc[FAILED]ot found.
[root@localhost ~]# service fglrx restart
Checking for module fglrx.ko: [FAILED]
fglrx.ko for kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 was not found. [WARNING]
fglrx DRI will not be enabled until one is found. [WARNING]

Is there something I can do?

[leigh123linux]

Hi.

I've done that and this is what I get:

[root@localhost traian]# su -
[root@localhost ~]# akmods --force
Checking kmods exist for 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 [WARNING]
Devel-Files needed for building modules agaist 2.6.25-14.fc[FAILED]ot found.
[root@localhost ~]# service fglrx restart
Checking for module fglrx.ko: [FAILED]
fglrx.ko for kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 was not found. [WARNING]
fglrx DRI will not be enabled until one is found. [WARNING]

Is there something I can do?


Reboot to the new kernel !

[tssoimu]

I've rebooted but with the kernel 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 and now it works.

thanks a lot

[hxczach]

Tried to follow the guide line by line, but I got this:

[root@localhost downloads]# rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils
error: package mesa-libGL-devel is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU-devel is not installed
[root@localhost downloads]# perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
[root@localhost downloads]# perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
[root@localhost downloads]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Cleaning up Everything
[root@localhost downloads]# yum groupinstall "X Window System"
<<< BUNCHA STUFF >>>
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Error: mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
[root@localhost downloads]# rpm -qa xorg-x11-server-Xorg
[root@localhost downloads]# yum remove xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-server-common libsynaptics synaptics
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Excluding Packages from Fedora 9 - i386
Finished
Reducing Fedora 8 - i386 to included packages only
Finished
Excluding Packages from Fedora 9 - i386 - Updates
Finished
Reducing Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates to included packages only
Finished
No Match for argument: xorg-x11-server-Xorg
No Match for argument: xorg-x11-server-common
No Match for argument: libsynaptics
No Match for argument: synaptics
No Packages marked for removal
[root@localhost downloads]# yum groupinstall "X Window System"
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Excluding Packages from Fedora 9 - i386
Finished
Reducing Fedora 8 - i386 to included packages only
Finished
Excluding Packages from Fedora 9 - i386 - Updates
Finished
Reducing Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates to included packages only
Finished
Setting up Group Process
Package matching xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-3.fc8.noarch already installed. Checking for update.
<<< BUNCHA STUFF >>>
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Error: mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
[root@localhost downloads]# yum install mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel system-config-display system-config-keyboard firstboot libsynaptics synaptics
<<< BUNCHA STUFF >>>
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
mesa-libGL-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 from fedora8-updates has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: mesa-libGL = 7.0.2-3.fc8 is needed by package mesa-libGL-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 (fedora8-updates)
mesa-libGLU-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 from fedora8-updates has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: mesa-libGLU = 7.0.2-3.fc8 is needed by package mesa-libGLU-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 (fedora8-updates)
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Error: Missing Dependency: mesa-libGL = 7.0.2-3.fc8 is needed by package mesa-libGL-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 (fedora8-updates)
Error: Missing Dependency: mesa-libGLU = 7.0.2-3.fc8 is needed by package mesa-libGLU-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.i386 (fedora8-updates)
Error: mesa-libGL conflicts with xorg-x11-server-Xorg
[root@localhost downloads]#

[root@localhost downloads]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 14:08:11 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux



I ran this on a brand new FC9 install+yum update. No changes to Xorg and driver had not yet been installed. Any ideas?

Start with a fresh install, and install MesaLibGLU-Devel and MesaLibGL-Devel before you start doing this tutorial.


su
yum install mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel


Execute these commands in console before proceeding with the tutorial.
Hope this helps.

[lordamus]

leigh, any other advice for my latest post ? I still cant get video...black screen prblem...I`m using your xorg.conf as I posted above...

[zecchinhg]

Leigh, what eaxctly uses to be the problem with the ATI proprietary driver? I have been using the open driver as you taught and it is fine. However, I use a Radeon 3870 x2 and I think only one core is being used. Thank you!

[Nokia]

Leigh, what eaxctly uses to be the problem with the ATI proprietary driver? I have been using the open driver as you taught and it is fine. However, I use a Radeon 3870 x2 and I think only one core is being used. Thank you!
ATI didn't released a driver supporting F9 X server. Finger crossed for F10 :(

[Demz]

leigh, i got a question for you, i cant seem to work this one out

i got the maximize an Minimize affects plugin enabled but it only works correctly in XFCE, Doesn't work at all in Gnome, it used to work in Gnome but not anymore, so why XFCE an Not Gnome? iv'e gone over the plugin settings an i cant see what could be conflicting if anything , btw im not using compiz-fusion0.7.7 .. i got 0.7.6

[Nokia]

Try renaming curent compiz profile to see what happens with a newly generated one.

[jiggadeed]

hxczach: That worked like a charm. Cheers

leigh123@linux: thanks for the tutorial.

[zecchinhg]

Has anyone tried ATI driver Catalyst 8.8 in Fedora 9?

[dms]

Hi there,

I'm trying to get my ATI X300 mobility card on my laptop working as dual head with Fedora 9, and wondered if anyone could help me out with a problem. I hope this is the right thread/forum for this problem - if not, I apologise and ask if someone could suggest an alternative...

After I did the initial upgrade/update from a working fedora 7 install to 9, I wasn't able to get X to start with an external monitor attached (using my previously successful xorg.conf). After searching a bit and looking around at various articles, I found suggestions to downgrade xorg to the version from 8 and install the ATI drivers from livna, which I did using the excellent instructions in this forum, without problems. After some tinkering with my xorg.conf, I was able to get both monitors working just fine. However, when I try and start X when the second monitor is not attached, X fails to start unless I modify xorg.conf to remove the reference to the second screen in ServerLayout.

When X starts, the machine locks up and I get a rather attractive green and red screen on the main laptop panel. Looking at the tail end of Xorg.0.log, it says (I can supply more if needed!):
(II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
(II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux//libfglrxdrm.so
(==) fglrx(0): Capabilities: 0x00000000
(==) fglrx(0): CapabilitiesEx: 0x00000000
(==) fglrx(0): cpuFlags: 0x8000001d
(==) fglrx(0): OpenGL ClientDriverName: "fglrx_dri.so"
(**) fglrx(0): ATI GART size: 255 MB
(II) fglrx(0): [pcie] 261120 kB allocated
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM buffer queue setup: nbufs = 100 bufsize = 65536
(==) fglrx(0): UseFastTLS=0
(==) fglrx(0): BlockSignalsOnLock=1
(II) fglrx(1): === [atiddxPreInit] === begin
(EE) fglrx(1): Quitting secondary screen -- no monitor specified.
(EE) fglrx(1): PreInit failed
(II) fglrx(1): === [atiddxPreInit] === end

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c2f91]
1: [0x110400]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxDriverEntPriv+0x2b) [0x75406b]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxFreeScreen+0x39) [0x759c99]
4: /usr/bin/X(xf86DeleteScreen+0x6e) [0x80d0f6e]
5: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0x9fe) [0x80a339e]
6: /usr/bin/X(main+0x27b) [0x807032b]
7: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xbee5d6]
8: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1f1) [0x806f831]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

which I naively imagine is X objecting to not finding the second monitor that it expects. I can then get things to work on the single panel by modifying ServerLayout in xorg.conf to use a single head config, and indeed can happily switch back and forward between the configs by manually changing xorg.conf.

My xorg.conf file is currently (single head params commented out):
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
#Identifier "single head configuration"
#Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

#Section "ServerFlags"
# Option "AIGLX" "on"
#EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel"
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor 1600x1200"
HorizSync 31.5 - 94.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

#Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
#Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Device"

#Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
#Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300]"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1400x1050" "1400x1050" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x1024" "1280
x1024" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1152x864" "1152x864" "1152x
864" "1024x768" "1024x768" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "64
0x480" "640x480" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Does anyone have any advice for me on what I might be doing wrong? I'm considering getting rid of the ATI drivers and switching back to using the standard ones (Driver "radeon" in the xorg.conf, my manual changes seem to get overwritten when starting X)

Thanks for any help forthcoming!

Dan

[Nokia]

It's been released a few hours ago. It has important bugfixes but still no F9 support :(The latest ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released yesterday, and it brings various new features such as CrossFireX and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support. It also introduces ATIOverDrive to maximize the GPU's (Graphical Processing Unit) performance, although some caution is advised, as increasing its clocks above normal limits could cause system hangs, graphics corruption or data loss. ATI MultiView is another addition that comes with this version, allowing the GPU's use on an independent multi-display desktop from multiple adapters.

Issues resolved in this release:

• Segmentation faults do not occur anymore if the Overscan is set to an invalid value;
• Playing media files with XVideo enabled no longer results in XServer crashes;
• The incorrect error message displayed when applying an unsupported TV geometry in a terminal has been removed;
• The problem occurring when attempting to start the Catalyst Control Center on a system containing an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 product, to which a CRT device has been connected, has been resolved;
• Quake 3 Arena (demo) runs without segmentation faults;
• OpenGL PBOs now works fine with GL_RGB texture format;
• The aticonfig --enable-monitor command in Ubuntu 7.04 no longer causes the restart of the XServer;
• The hyperlink on the welcome screen of the Catalyst Control Center (Linux Edition) doesn't generate
an extra long time for the browser to load the web page;
• The libGL.so, no such file or directory error doesn't occur anymore during the initial RPM installation;
• The appropriate package to build is now automatically determined by the Linux installer;
• When the Linux Kernel is updated, the specific kernel module is now installed to the correct place;
• The lack of a window manager when attempting to run the XServer doesn't lead to the green flashes and the computer becoming unresponsive anymore;
• It's now possible to create two successive connections without the fail of the direct GL context;
• Doom 3 can now be launched on a secondary display device under x;
• The kdesktop_application no longer generates a segmentation fault;
• The bug with the X start-up after the installation and configuration of the driver with default values has been removed.

Known issues of this release:

• The print preview and save functions of DiscoveryStudio1.7 may not work properly;
• Dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode may result in desktop corruption;
• Setting the desktop resolution to 2048x1536 on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 3200 series could lead to bandwidth corruption;
• The SUZI/textured video may cause an X segmentation fault;
• The enabling of AIGLX could prevent the X Server from resetting properly;
• The OS could become unresponsive when running Xtest;
• Attempting to launch Softimage XSI Ariane x64 could cause a segmentation fault;
• The playback of the video files or suzi test app causes an instability of the X desktop;
• Audio may not be heard when connecting an HDMI display device;
• Resuming the system from standby, while a 3D application was running, may lead to desktop corruption;
• The X server could fail to display an image when one of multiple users logs out.

In order to achieve the best performance and ease of use, ATI/AMD recommends the following:

• Kernel module build environment – should include Kernel source code: either the Kernel Source, or Kernel Headers packages
• ISSE Support enabled in your Linux Kernel (applies to Intel Pentium III and later CPUs only; enabled by default on version 2.4 and later kernels)
• The rpm utility should be installed and configured correctly on your system, if you intend to install it via RPM packages;

Requirements:

• XOrg 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2; XFree86 version 4.3
• Linux kernel 2.4 or higher
• glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
• POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications

[leigh123linux]

Try moving xinerama to serverflags , also you could try disabling it !
Why have you disabled AIGLX ?


# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
Option "Clone" "off"
#Identifier "single head configuration"
#Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "on" # try it in a disabled state i.e Option "Xinerama" "off"
# Option "AIGLX" "on" # try it without the comment.
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel"
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor 1600x1200"
HorizSync 31.5 - 94.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

#Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
#Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Device"

#Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
#Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300]"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1400x1050" "1400x1050" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x1024" "1280
x1024" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1152x864" "1152x864" "1152x
864" "1024x768" "1024x768" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "64
0x480" "640x480" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[iomesus]

thanks for the guide leigh, all working well :)

how do i stop this happening ever time i use yum?:

> Excluding Packages from Fedora 9 - x86_64
> Finished
> Reducing Fedora 8 - x86_64 to included packages only

i assume its just a case of removing some of the repo's added in this guide? but i dont want auto updates to overwrite the f8 xorg server, which i fear might happen if i just go in and rermove that f8 repo.

sorry if this has already been asked, but i can't read through 132 pages :P i tried search.

[placentiusz]

ATI Catalyst 8.8 problem in FC9
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: miZeroL
ineScreenIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)

:( ?
missing lib?

[placentiusz]

>sorry if this has already been asked, but i can't read through 132 pages :P i tried search.
use exclude option in yum config (details man yum:))

[leigh123linux]

ATI Catalyst 8.8 problem in FC9
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: miZeroL
ineScreenIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)

:( ?
missing lib?

Have you added this to xorg.conf ?


Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers"
EndSection



ATI Catalyst 8.8 problem in FC9

I don't recommend using the ATI installer

[placentiusz]

don't work. :(

[typist]

Sigh in my eagerness to get rid of this problem I updated the kernel and xorg
and everything stopped working. Its with a heavy heart that I say Leigh's uninstall instructions work correctly too. :(

I wont be retrying till Leigh posts updates to the initial instructions to this thread, coz I do not have the time right now to futz with the putz. No 3D for me!

For what its worth:


$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7659 Release

Segmentation fault

$ uname -a
Linux mycroft 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 21 01:09:10 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ rpm -qa|grep xorg-x11-server
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-1.fc9.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.905-2.20080702.fc9.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.905-2.20080702.fc9.x86_64


l8r

OK reinstalled everything, one month later, and it all works fine. The stats are:

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release

$ uname -a
Linux mycroft 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 13:46:35 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ rpm -qa|grep xorg-x11-server
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-47.fc8.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-1.fc9.x86_64


Actually everything is better than before :)
One detail that I notice between both of them is the last time I had

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.905-2.20080702.fc9.x86_64

which did not work but this time I have

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-47.fc8.x86_64

which WORKS!

[dms]

Try moving xinerama to serverflags , also you could try disabling it !


Thanks for the advice - however, it doesn't seem to make much difference. I've tried moving Xinerama to ServerFlags and then various combinations of on/off for xinerama and aiglx, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.


Why have you disabled AIGLX ?

Sorry, my mistake in my previous post - I did originally have this on when testing, but turned it off in an attempt to downgrade to the radeon driver and forgot to uncomment it afterwards!

Dan

[tssoimu]

hi leigh.

I've recently instaled "fglrx and compiz" on ASUS notebook X51Rseries; CPU Intel Pentiun DUO T2130; HDD 160G; 2G RAM; Graphics by ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 - using "howto for F9" and I face a problem: everytime I start compiz my screen turns to black after maximum 5 min. and then there is nothing I can do to change this. I can only restart my computer and then - in order to use it - I have to quickly disable the compiz otherwise it will turn to black again.

I had allmost the same problem with F8 but there was not only this thing with the black screen there was also that the screen was freezing. I've seen that there was an older discusion upon this problem and that there was not a final solution.

please tell me what information should I provide to you if you think you can help me?

[tssoimu]

when I start the GLDesktop I get the following message:

"An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-compiz-preferences. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly."

and then I press the details button and get:

"Type mismatch: Expected list, got string
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string"

is there any solution to this?

[leigh123linux]

when I start the GLDesktop I get the following message:

"An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-compiz-preferences. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly."

and then I press the details button and get:

"Type mismatch: Expected list, got string
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string"

is there any solution to this?


How are you starting compiz?


post


wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
chmod +x compiz-check
./compiz-check

glxinfo

[jturn_1]

I get the errors

[CODE][root@localhost ~]# akmods --force
-bash: akmods: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# service fglrx restart
fglrx: unrecognized service
[root@localhost ~]# fglrx-config-display enable
-bash: fglrx-config-display: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# locate akmods
[root@localhost ~]# find / -name akmods
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/1: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.

so it doesnt seem that akmods is present on my machine

[MagnifiedX]

I get the errors

[CODE][root@localhost ~]# akmods --force
-bash: akmods: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# service fglrx restart
fglrx: unrecognized service
[root@localhost ~]# fglrx-config-display enable
-bash: fglrx-config-display: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# locate akmods
[root@localhost ~]# find / -name akmods
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/1: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.

so it doesnt seem that akmods is present on my machine

I'm getting the same errors; here are the versions I have installed, along with the command not found error:

Package xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i386 already installed and latest version
Package xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i386 already installed and latest version
Package akmod-fglrx-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i686 already installed and latest version
Package kmod-fglrx-8.512-1.8.07.lvn9.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[root@localhost MagnifiedX]# akmods --force
bash: akmods: command not found

[tssoimu]

this is what happens after:
su -
wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
chmod +x compiz-check
./compiz-check


[root@localhost traian]# su -
[root@localhost ~]# wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
--2008-08-23 17:04:47-- http://blogage.de/files/4359/download
Resolving blogage.de... 78.46.34.206
Connecting to blogage.de|78.46.34.206|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 27814 (27K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `compiz-check'

100%[======================================>] 27,814 63.2K/s in 0.4s

2008-08-23 17:04:48 (63.2 KB/s) - `compiz-check' saved [27814/27814]

[root@localhost ~]# chmod +x compiz-check
[root@localhost ~]# ./compiz-check

Do not run this script as root, because it might distort its outcome.
Aborting.

[root@localhost ~]#

[tssoimu]

and this is the glxinfo:
PART 1


[root@localhost traian]# su -
[root@localhost ~]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
OpenGL extensions:
GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_multisample,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
GL_ATI_meminfo, GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object,
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_WIN_swap_hint, WGL_EXT_swap_control

73 GLX Visuals
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2b 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2c 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2d 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2e 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2f 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x30 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x31 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x32 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x33 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x34 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x35 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x36 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x37 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x38 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x39 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x3a 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x3b 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3c 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3d 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3e 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3f 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x40 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x41 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x42 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x43 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x44 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x45 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x46 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4e 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4f 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x50 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x51 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x52 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x53 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x54 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x55 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x56 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x57 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x58 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x59 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x5a 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x5b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5e 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5f 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x60 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x61 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x62 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x63 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x64 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x65 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x66 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x67 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x68 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x69 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6a 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6e 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x86 32 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 Ncon

[tssoimu]

and the glxinfo

PART 2


73 GLXFBConfigs:
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x24 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x25 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2a 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2b 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2c 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2d 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2e 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2f 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x30 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x31 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x32 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x33 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x34 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x35 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x36 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x37 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x38 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x39 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x3a 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x3b 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3c 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3d 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3e 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3f 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x40 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x41 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x42 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x43 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x44 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x45 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x46 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4b 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4c 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4d 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4e 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4f 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x50 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x51 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x52 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x53 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x54 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x55 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x56 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x57 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x58 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x59 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x5a 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x5b 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5c 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5d 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5e 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5f 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x60 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x61 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x62 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x63 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x64 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x65 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x66 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x67 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x68 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x69 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6a 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6b 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6c 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6d 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6e 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x86 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 Ncon

[root@localhost ~]#

[Nokia]

this is what happens after:
su -
wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
chmod +x compiz-check
./compiz-check

Do this step again as regular user, omitting su -, and post the output again.

[tssoimu]

first I tried this:


[traian@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost traian]# wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
--2008-08-23 17:32:21-- http://blogage.de/files/4359/download
Resolving blogage.de... 78.46.34.206
Connecting to blogage.de|78.46.34.206|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 27814 (27K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `compiz-check'

100%[======================================>] 27,814 43.4K/s in 0.6s

2008-08-23 17:32:22 (43.4 KB/s) - `compiz-check' saved [27814/27814]

[root@localhost traian]# chmod +x compiz-check
[root@localhost traian]# ./compiz-check

Do not run this script as root, because it might distort its outcome.
Aborting.

[root@localhost traian]#


and then this:


[root@localhost traian]# exit
exit
[traian@localhost ~]$ wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
compiz-check: Permission denied
[traian@localhost ~]$


none of them gave more results then the first time.

[Nokia]

Start over in a new terminal, without any su command.

[tssoimu]

hello nokthe operation is not permitted;


[traian@localhost ~]$ wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
compiz-check: Permission denied
[traian@localhost ~]$ chmod +x compiz-check
chmod: changing permissions of `compiz-check': Operation not permitted
[traian@localhost ~]$ wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
compiz-check: Permission denied
[traian@localhost ~]$

[Nokia]

Hmm, strange. works fine here[nokia@localhost ~]$ wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
--2008-08-23 22:50:16-- http://blogage.de/files/4359/download
Resolving blogage.de... 78.46.34.206
Connecting to blogage.de|78.46.34.206|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 27814 (27K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `compiz-check'

100%[================================================== ================================================== ================================================== ==============================================>] 27,814 97.9K/s in 0.3s

2008-08-23 22:50:17 (97.9 KB/s) - `compiz-check' saved [27814/27814]

[nokia@localhost ~]$ chmod +x compiz-check
[nokia@localhost ~]$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 430 (rev a2)
Driver in use: nvidia
Rendering method: Nvidia

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [ OK ]

[nokia@localhost ~]$

[Nokia]

Post here pwd
wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
chmod +x compiz-check
./compiz-check

[stardancer]

I have fglrx (catalyst 8.8) and compiz working great on fedora 9 (x86_64) with a 2.6.26 kernel! I need the 2.6.26 or newer kernel due to some usb audio glitches and network problems in the 2.6.25 kernel, unfortunately the ati drivers did not support this kernel until now. If you need catalyst 8.8 or the 2.6.26 kernel then this post is for you!

Step 1: Install the 2.6.26 kernel
- Download a 2.6.26 kernel, kernel-devel, and kernel-headers from Koji (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=59863), make sure you get x86 or x86_64 as needed.
- Install it
- Reboot

Step 2: Catalyst 8.8
- Download Catalyst 8.8 from ATI (http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/previous/linux-rf-cat88.html)
- Compile and install the driver using all the default options
chmod a+x ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run- Make sure there were no errors in the compilation (warnings are fine)
cat /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log- If there were errors, you need to resolve them.

Step 3: Downgrade xserver/mesa and install compiz
- Follow the instructions at the beginning of this topic
- **EXCEPT**: Skip "Step 2: Install the driver" (we have already done this)
- for "Step 4: Reinstall Compiz", make sure you use compiz 0.7.7 (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=173317)

Voila! Good luck!

A few notes:
- if you are getting "cannot find default font: fixed" errors, make sure there are no entries in the "Files" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
- the catalyst 8.8 drivers do not compile out of the box on the 2.6.27 kernels, you will have to edit the source files (firegl_public.c I think), not recommended for most people.

[IBBoard]

ATI have had their new drivers out for a little while now. Does anyone know how long Livna will take with a new release? Or what I'd need to do to build them myself with the updated drivers?

Maybe next release we'll get FGLRX support without the downgrade...or maybe not because it's still not a final release of XOrg!

[tssoimu]

thank you stardancer

I will try this but first I have to be sure that I can handle everything you said to me and right now I'm sure I can not.

than you anyway.

[tssoimu]

here is what I've done.

first I've tried this:

[traian@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/traian
[traian@localhost ~]$ wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
compiz-check: Permission denied


and then, because it did not work, I've tried this:


[traian@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# pwd
/root
[root@localhost ~]# wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
--2008-08-24 18:14:06-- http://blogage.de/files/4359/download
Resolving blogage.de... 78.46.34.206
Connecting to blogage.de|78.46.34.206|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 27814 (27K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `compiz-check'

100%[======================================>] 27,814 --.-K/s in 0.1s

2008-08-24 18:14:06 (247 KB/s) - `compiz-check' saved [27814/27814]

[root@localhost ~]# chmod +x compiz-check
[root@localhost ~]# ./compiz-check

Do not run this script as root, because it might distort its outcome.
Aborting.


and after this message I've exit and something new happened


[root@localhost ~]# exit
logout

[traian@localhost ~]$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Driver in use: fglrx
Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 11769, ti=eff62000 task=effa2e70 task.ti=eff62000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f6892030 effa2e70 00000003 effa2e70 f6892030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:Call Trace:
[FAIL]
Checking for composite extension...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: 00000000 f6892030 effa2e70 f427f800 eff62ee4 c04cf8ea effa2e70 f8d47fc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<f8c1fa80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12
[ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<f8c1ad74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<f8c11bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:eff62e84
[ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#2] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:Process fglrxinfo (pid: 11821, ti=f240f000 task=effa2e70 task.ti=f240f000)
[SKIP]

At least one check had to be skipped:
Error: Unable to detect fglrx driver version in use.


Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f6892030 effa2e70 00000003 effa2e70 f6892030 00000000 00000000
[traian@localhost ~]$
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: 00000000 f6892030 effa2e70 f0380800 f240fee4 c04cf8ea effa2e70 f8d47fc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<f8c1fa80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<f8c1ad74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<f8c11bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:14:47 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:f240fe84


is this bad news or what?

[Nokia]

Not really. Post here uname -a and do su -
setenforce 0

[stardancer]

Ok, so I ended up needing the 2.6.27 kernel after all and after some hacking I got 8.8 working on the 2.6.27 kernel. I am sorry that this isn't necessarily newbie friendly but I hope it helps people get started if 2.6.27 is a necessity for you (if not or you have no idea what I am talking about here, I suggest waiting a month or two for new fglrx drivers).

Please read my post above about the 2.6.26 kernel as it is a similar process.

Pre-Requisite: Downgrade xorg-server/mesa
- I recommend downgrading your xorg-server first, otherwise you might get into a situation where you can't get into X to read the instructions about how to proceed
- To do that, follow the instructions at the very beginning of this topic on the first page (just follow steps 1 and 3, not 2 and 4).

Step 1: Download my hacked filescd
wget http://www.cutedancer.com/dist/fglrx/smp.h
wget http://www.cutedancer.com/dist/fglrx/firegl_public.c

Step 2: Install a 2.6.27 kernel
- Get a 2.6.27 kernel from Koji (I am using 2.6.27-0.244.rc2.git1.fc10.x86_64 (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=59030)). You will need kernel, kernel-devel, kernel-headers, and kernel-firmware. You may need other dependencies, but try just these first.
- Install it rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm

Step 3: Install Catalyst 8.8
- Download Catalyst 8.8 from ATI (http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/...x-rf-cat88.html)
- Compile and install the driver using all the default optionschmod a+x ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run- The build should have failed. Check the log to make sure that there ARE errors and that you are on the same page as me (if there aren't for some reason, you can continue as in my above post for 2.6.26 but there should be some errors and it should say "build failed").cat /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log-Reboot

Step 4: Hack the Catalyst 8.8 Source
- When you reboot, hopefully your computer starts :)
- It will try to build the fglrx module and it will fail, that's fine
- Hopefully you get X back but you can do the following from the console if need be (log in as root)
- Now we make sure /usr/src/linux points to our kernel, we replace the firegl_public.c file with my hacked version of it, and we modify one of the linux header files which has a bug in it (don't tell Linus :) su
rm /usr/src/fglrx-8.522/2.6.x/firegl_public.c
cp -v ~/firegl_public.c /usr/src/fglrx-8.522/2.6.x
cd /usr/src
rm -f linux
ln -s kernels/`uname -r` linux
rm linux/include/asm/smp.h
cp -v ~/smp.h linux/include/asm- Now we try to compile the module, hopefully it works!cd /usr/src/fglrx-8.522
./make.sh- Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make sure you have the fglrx driver selected
- Reboot

Step 5: Install Compiz 0.7.7
- See this post: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=173317

Hopefully you are in business with a 2.6.27 kernel and wobbly windows!
Good luck!
E.

ps. the hacks I did are as follows: removed the second last parameter for smp_call_function and replaced the module license to be GPL so it compiles against the fedora kernel. The smp.h modifies an include to reflect changes in the kernel.

[tssoimu]

here something very odd.

first thing;


[traian@localhost ~]$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Driver in use: fglrx
Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [ OK ]

[tssoimu]

and then a few seconds later:


[traian@localhost ~]$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Driver in use: fglrx
Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#4] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 6183, ti=f273d000 task=f37d6e70 task.ti=f273d000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f6908030 f37d6e70 00000003 f37d6e70 f6908030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: 00000000 f6908030 f37d6e70 f794f000 f273dee4 c04cf8ea f37d6e70 f8d18fc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<f8bf0a80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<f8bebd74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<f8be2bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:f273de84
[ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#5] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 6215, ti=f273a000 task=f2832000 task.ti=f273a000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<f8be2bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<f8bf0a80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<f8bebd74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: 00000000 f6908030 f2832000 f69d8800 f273aee4 c04cf8ea f2832000 f8d18fc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f6908030 f2832000 00000003 f2832000 f6908030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:42 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:f273ae84
[ OK ]

[tssoimu]

and the last part


Checking for hardware/setup problems...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#6] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:Process fglrxinfo (pid: 6252, ti=f272e000 task=f2832000 task.ti=f272e000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f6908030 f2832000 00000003 f2832000 f6908030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: 00000000 f6908030 f2832000 f794f800 f272eee4 c04cf8ea f2832000 f8d18fc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23
[SKIP]


Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12
At least one check had to be skipped:
Error: Unable to detect fglrx driver version in use.


Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<f8bebd74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85


Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<f8be2bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<f8bf0a80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[traian@localhost ~]$
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:f272ee84

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#7] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:Process fglrxinfo (pid: 6261, ti=f274c000 task=f11e6000 task.ti=f274c000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f6908030 f11e6000 00000003 f11e6000 f6908030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: 00000000 f6908030 f11e6000 f794d800 f274cee4 c04cf8ea f11e6000 f8d18fc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<f8bf0a80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<f8bebd74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<f8be2bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 24 18:36:43 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:f274ce84


is this something normal?
and after I've got the second check the computer crashed like it uses to: the screen turns black and I have to restart it with ctrl-alt-del

[tssoimu]

[traian@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 14:08:11 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[tssoimu]

was there something suppose to happen after doing "setenforce 0"?

[Nokia]

was there something suppose to happen after doing "setenforce 0"?
No. Please do /usr/sbin/getenforceA Permissive answer should prevent such errors from happening. If you get Enforcing as an answer, redo the command sequence again.

[tssoimu]

I've got the permissive answer after all and now I've made another compiz check; is there no problem that I do not always get the same feedback?
here is the last feedback for my compiz check:


[traian@localhost ~]$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Driver in use: fglrx
Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#50] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 9974, ti=f1df8000 task=f0660000 task.ti=f1df8000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f6faa030 f0660000 00000003 f0660000 f6faa030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: 00000000 f6faa030 f0660000 f6862800 f1df8ee4 c04cf8ea f0660000 f8d47fc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<f8c1fa80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<f8c1ad74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<f8c11bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 25 00:42:38 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:f1df8e84
[ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [ OK ]

[traian@localhost ~]$

[tssoimu]

and now the good news: I'm using the computer for 15 minutes already and it did not crash.

hopefully this is going to work

[j0n!-Sn!p3r]

ohhh!! wow!!

im so happy!

before reinstall 3 time OS fedora.. finally i have ati driver working

thank u!

[jturn_1]

MagnifiedX, I think this may be the problem we are having:

*

kernel-devel must also be installed for each kernel version, because kernel-devel is only brought in as an akmods dependency the first time it's installed, and only if it's available in a repo (e.g. in updates-testing)

NOTE: If you neglect to install kernel-devel at the same time as the kernel, then the post-install akmod rebuild will FAIL, so make sure to do: yum --en updates-testing install kernel kernel-devel kernel-headers OR yum --nogpg localinstall kernel* (in this case you don't escape the '*' wildcard). If you did forget, but then subsequently installed kernel-devel AFTER the kernel, you can still force the akmod to be rebuilt now, without rebooting, for the specific kernel version just installed (rather than the current running kernel) by doing, for example: akmods --kernels 2.6.25.11-92.fc9.x86_64

I found this on http://fedorasolved.org/Members/zcat/akmods

I am not near the computer I am installing f9 so I cannot try this fix yet, but I will try tomorrow and will post my results.

[angryfirelord]

I certainly appreciate leigh123 for taking time out of his day to write this howto and help answer questions, but I'm just sick of relying on fglrx and trying to fix it because the paid ATI devs can't support it themselves. For those that don't need 3D performance, I recommend looking into the radeonhd driver. (You can still get very basic 3D using DRI if you wish)

[tssoimu]

the compiz check command gives me different outputs every time.

for instance:


[traian@localhost ~]$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Driver in use: fglrx
Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#23] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 9020, ti=ee44e000 task=f15f4e70 task.ti=ee44e000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f68f8030 f15f4e70 00000003 f15f4e70 f68f8030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: 00000000 f68f8030 f15f4e70 eff14000 ee44eee4 c04cf8ea f15f4e70 f8cedfc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<f8bb7bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<f8bc5a80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<f8bc0d74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:ee44ee84

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:50 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------
[ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#24] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 9065, ti=f12da000 task=f14ec000 task.ti=f12da000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f68f8030 f14ec000 00000003 f14ec000 f68f8030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: 00000000 f68f8030 f14ec000 f377e000 f12daee4 c04cf8ea f14ec000 f8cedfc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<f8bc5a80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<f8bc0d74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<f8bb7bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab
[SKIP]

At least one check had to be skipped:
Error: Unable to detect maximum 3D texture size


Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:38:51 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:f12dae84
[traian@localhost ~]$

[tssoimu]

and then if I check again I get this:


[traian@localhost ~]$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Driver in use: fglrx
Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 9732, ti=eee48000 task=f15f4e70 task.ti=eee48000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f68f8030 f15f4e70 00000003 f15f4e70 f68f8030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<f8bc5a80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<f8bb7bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: 00000000 f68f8030 f15f4e70 eff16800 eee48ee4 c04cf8ea f15f4e70 f8cedfc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<f8bc0d74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:eee48e84

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#25] SMP

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------
[FAIL]

[tssoimu]

and

Checking for hardware/setup problems...
Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<f8bc0d74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<f8bc5a80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 9743, ti=eee3b000 task=f36f0000 task.ti=eee3b000)

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<f8bb7bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f68f8030 f36f0000 00000003 f36f0000 f68f8030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: 00000000 f68f8030 f36f0000 f4284800 eee3bee4 c04cf8ea f36f0000 f8cedfc0

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@localhost at Aug 28 17:40:19 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:eee3be84


how bad news is this?

[tssoimu]

and this is the glxinfo


[root@localhost traian]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
OpenGL extensions:
GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_multisample,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
GL_ATI_meminfo, GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object,
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_WIN_swap_hint, WGL_EXT_swap_control

[tssoimu]

and the last part


73 GLX Visuals
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2b 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2c 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2d 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2e 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2f 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x30 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x31 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x32 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x33 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x34 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x35 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x36 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x37 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x38 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x39 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x3a 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x3b 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3c 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3d 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3e 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3f 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x40 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x41 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x42 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x43 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x44 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x45 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x46 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4e 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4f 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x50 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x51 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x52 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x53 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x54 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x55 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x56 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x57 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x58 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x59 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x5a 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x5b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5e 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5f 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x60 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x61 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x62 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x63 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x64 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x65 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x66 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x67 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x68 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x69 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6a 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6e 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x86 32 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 Ncon

[tssoimu]

this is the last part

73 GLXFBConfigs:
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x24 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x25 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2a 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2b 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2c 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2d 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2e 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2f 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x30 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x31 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x32 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x33 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x34 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x35 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x36 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x37 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x38 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x39 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x3a 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x3b 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3c 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3d 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3e 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3f 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x40 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x41 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x42 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x43 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x44 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x45 0 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x46 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4b 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4c 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4d 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4e 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x4f 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x50 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x51 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x52 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x53 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x54 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x55 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x56 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x57 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x58 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x59 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x5a 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 None
0x5b 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5c 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5d 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5e 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x5f 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x60 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x61 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x62 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 None
0x63 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x64 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x65 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x66 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x67 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x68 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x69 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6a 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 None
0x6b 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6c 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6d 0 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x6e 0 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x86 0 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 Ncon

[root@localhost traian]#



can you please help me?

[leigh123linux]

@ tssoimu


Try disabling selinux !

[Nokia]

@Leigh

So just putting it in Permisive mode (as suggested in # 2002) isn't enough ?

[leigh123linux]

@Leigh

So just putting it in Permisive mode (as suggested in # 2002) isn't enough ?


Permisive mode should be enough !

[j0n!-Sn!p3r]

@Leigh

im having a loots of problem with fedora...

when i start any aplication... for example.. firefox, pidgin.. etc... the laptop crashed and a black screen make me reboot the system... i cant open 2 or 3 window or aplicationes :/

other error that when i try to click animation of compiz fusion, it clicked but before 2 second aprox its break and keep as disable... cube the same error...
i tried with reinstall compiz.. but nothing happens..

plx someone help me :D

[tousisd]

Do you know when i will have compatibility with the compiz and direct rendering with my X2900XT on f9 ?

[tousisd]

when the fedora 9 will support catalyst drivers ? When the xorg will be updated ?

[Nokia]

Perhaps in F10...

[tousisd]

So try on f10 alpha ? is very unstable right now ?

[frenchsquared]

Fedora 9
So I got to:

akmods --force
service fglrx restart
fglrx-config-display enable

and this happened

[root@localhost gordon]# akmods --force
bash: akmods: command not found
[root@localhost gordon]# service fglrx restart
bash: service: command not found

I went line by line
and everything else went smoothly

[frenchsquared]

[root@localhost gordon]# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.1 rc1)

[root@localhost gordon]#

[frenchsquared]

[root@localhost gordon]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,
GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.1 rc1)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers, GL_ARB_fragment_program,
GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow, GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters,
GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,
GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements,
GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_paletted_texture, GL_EXT_point_parameters,
GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs,
GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_subtexture,
GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,
GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3,
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_INGR_blend_func_separate,
GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_NV_blend_square,
GL_NV_fragment_program, GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_point_sprite,
GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_vertex_program,
GL_NV_vertex_program1_1, GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture,
GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays

3 GLX Visuals
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x21 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x22 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x5d 32 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None

32 GLXFBConfigs:

[frenchsquared]

[root@localhost gordon]# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed


[root@localhost gordon]# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) RADEON(0): R600 support is mostly incomplete and very experimental
(WW) RADEON(0): LVDS Info:
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 154.00MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 154.00MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 154.00MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing
(WW) EDID preferred timing clock 154.00MHz exceeds claimed max 150MHz, fixing

[frenchsquared]

[root@localhost gordon]# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|grep kernel|sort
kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
kernel-headers-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i386
kerneloops-0.11-1.fc9.i386
[root@localhost gordon]#

[tssoimu]

can you please tell me how?

[frenchsquared]

tssoimu,

how what?

[tssoimu]

@ tssoimu


Try disabling selinux !

how to disable selinux.

[Nokia]

how to disable selinux.
su
gedit /etc/selinux/configEdit to show SELINUX=disabled then save and reboot.

[tssoimu]

thank you, nokia.

Meanwhile I've discovered it and I tried first with permissive option but it is still not working. I still get the black screen.
now I've disabled it and I will reboot

thanks again

[tssoimu]

the fact that I continuously get the same output for ./compiz-check


[traian@localhost ~]$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Driver in use: fglrx
Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [ OK ]

[traian@localhost ~]$


is good news?

I've disabled the seelinux and now I think it's working.
anyhow, thank you guys for the help.

[jgille]

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mach64_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflictswith file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mga_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r128_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r200_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/radeon_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflictswith file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/savage_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflictswith file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/tdfx_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/unichrome_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64

Error Summary
-------------

[leigh123linux]

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mach64_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflictswith file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mga_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r128_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r200_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/radeon_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflictswith file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/savage_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflictswith file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/tdfx_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/unichrome_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64

Error Summary
-------------


Thread merged!


Try post #1 again with the updated instructions!

[tssoimu]

today is the 3rd day since compiz is not crashing any more. therefore disabling the selinux solved my problem,

thanks a lot everybody.

[j0n!-Sn!p3r]

yeah, try again.. i was the same error... but its working now...

some kernnel error im trying to solve now :/

[jgille]

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mach64_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mga_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from packagemesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r128_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r200_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/radeon_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/savage_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/tdfx_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/unichrome_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64

Error Summary

Still got the same thing .. umm

should there be anything i need to do before starting over?

[j0n!-Sn!p3r]

its for me...

[jonathan@jonathan ~]$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Driver in use: fglrx
Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap...
Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#8] SMP

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 22287, ti=c6a37000 task=ed4a2e70 task.ti=c6a37000)

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f7532030 ed4a2e70 00000003 ed4a2e70 f7532030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: 00000000 f7532030 ed4a2e70 d9728000 c6a37ee4 c04cf8ea ed4a2e70 f8c96fc0

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<f8b6ea80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<f8b69d74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<f8b60bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:c6a37e84
[ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support...
Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#9] SMP
[FAIL]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig...
Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:Process glxinfo (pid: 22321, ti=c69c4000 task=ed4a2e70 task.ti=c69c4000)

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:Stack: c06d0505 f7532030 ed4a2e70 00000003 ed4a2e70 f7532030 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: 00000000 f7532030 ed4a2e70 d9728000 c69c4ee4 c04cf8ea ed4a2e70 f8c96fc0

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c04cf8ea>] ? selinux_capable+0x1f/0x23

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c04cb4f9>] ? security_capable+0xc/0xe

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c042d0f7>] ? __capable+0xb/0x22

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<f8b6ea80>] ? firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c042d11e>] ? capable+0x10/0x12

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<f8b69d74>] ? firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c04d0155>] ? file_has_perm+0x7c/0x85

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<f8b60bac>] ? ip_firegl_ioctl+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c04d02eb>] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xa8/0xab

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:Code: 00 89 d0 f3 ab 8b 4d b8 89 d8 b2 04 c1 f8 05 c6 45 bc 03 89 5d c4 89 4d c0 74 16 48 b2 45 74 11 53 68 05 05 6d c0 e8 e2 60 15 00 <0f> 0b 59 5b eb fe 8b 46 08 83 e3 1f 0f b7 f2 8d 55 bc 88 d9 52

Message from syslogd@jonathan at Aug 30 16:19:20 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c04cf89d>] task_has_capability+0x48/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:c69c4e84
[ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [ OK ]

[j0n!-Sn!p3r]

try install "X Window System" first..

[leigh123linux]

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mach64_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mga_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from packagemesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r128_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r200_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/radeon_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/savage_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/tdfx_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/unichrome_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64

Error Summary

Still got the same thing .. umm

should there be anything i need to do before starting over?


This command may have failed ! (if the devels aren't installed the command fails )

rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils

And replace it with this command

rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils

[jgille]

[root@localhost Download]# rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils
error: package mesa-libGL is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU is not installed
error: package mesa-libGL-devel is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU-devel is not installed
error: package glx-utils is not installed

[root@localhost Download]# rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils
error: package mesa-libGL is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU is not installed
error: package glx-utils is not installed
[root@localhost Download]#

ok i ran it both ways and this is what i get

[Nokia]

its for me...
See post #2035. Sorry. Hopefully in a matter of weeks we'll have a decent driver from ATI.

[j0n!-Sn!p3r]

i have disabled now...

im going to reboot now...

[jgille]

ok some more updates on my problem

running this yum groupinstall "X Window System"Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mach64_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mga_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r128_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r200_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/radeon_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/savage_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/tdfx_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/unichrome_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64

Error Summary





Downloading Packages:
(1/5): libsynaptics-0.14.6c-3.fc9.x86_64.rpm | 51 kB 00:00
(2/5): system-config-keyboard-1.2.15-2.fc9.noarch.rpm | 74 kB 00:00
(3/5): mesa-libGLU-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64.rpm | 95 kB 00:00
(4/5): mesa-libGLU-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64.rpm | 203 kB 00:00
(5/5): mesa-libGL-devel-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64.rpm | 450 kB 00:02
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mach64_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/mga_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r128_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r200_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/radeon_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/savage_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/tdfx_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/dri/unichrome_dri.so from install of mesa-libGL-7.0.2-3.fc8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.x86_64

Error Summary
-------------

and i have installed all devel packages as leigh123@linux said also

[leigh123linux]

[root@localhost Download]# rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils
error: package mesa-libGL is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU is not installed
error: package mesa-libGL-devel is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU-devel is not installed
error: package glx-utils is not installed

[root@localhost Download]# rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils
error: package mesa-libGL is not installed
error: package mesa-libGLU is not installed
error: package glx-utils is not installed
[root@localhost Download]#

ok i ran it both ways and this is what i get


try


rpm -e --nodeps mesa-dri-drivers

[jgille]

looks like it is working but i am getting a weird error after it says complete

this is after the "group install"

Complete!
[root@localhost Download]# kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(17129) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/usr/share/applications/kde4/ark.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(17129) KBuildServiceFactory::populateServiceTypes: "/usr/share/applications/kde/kdevelop_scripting.desktop" specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype "application/x-kdevelop"
kbuildsycoca4(17129) KBuildServiceFactory::populateServiceTypes: "/usr/share/applications/sound-juicer.desktop" specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype "x-content/audio-cdda"
kbuildsycoca4(17129) KBuildServiceFactory::populateServiceTypes: "/usr/share/applications/kde4/ktorrent.desktop" specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype "application/x-torrent"


this is not all the error but maybe it will help

i am getting some what the same error with the next step said complete and then runs kbuildsycoca4 running

[ajamison]

Hey leigh do you happen to know if the next ATI release will support the native Xorg in f9?

[jgille]

hey looks like it worked ty ty ty ty

for your time with me

[root@localhost ~]# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release

[root@localhost ~]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2

[leigh123linux]

Hey leigh do you happen to know if the next ATI release will support the native Xorg in f9?


I doubt ATI will support the xorg version till it's officially released :(

[jdk82]

Okay, so this may be a stupid question but I've been poking around for an answer for a while now and haven't found one.

Does anyone know why Catalyst Control Center still says "Driver Version 8.51.3"?

I have the lastest drivers installed

yum list kmod-fglrx

returns

kmod-fglrx.x86_64 8.512-2.8.07.lvn8 installed

Is this actually the 'internal' (or whatever) version number for 8.7? Also, any word on when 8.8 will be available?

Thanks in advance and again, sorry if this is a stupid question or one that has already been answered.

Edit: Sorry, just realized that I posted this to the F9 thread and I'm using F8. :eek: Although I've seen the same behaviour on F9. If a mod could move this to the correct thread?

[devraj]

does this mean we cant install fc9 on a laptop with ati radeon graphics card

[jdk82]

@ devraj,
No, it just means that you need to downgrade Xorg. See the first post in this topic.

[devraj]

can i describe my fedora install problem here to get a suggestion

[jdk82]

Yes you can. I did reply to your PM but as I said, I'm not an expert and you may have better luck posting here than just to me :)

[Bad2theBone]

Not sure if this belongs here or not, but here goes. I originally started with F9 i386 (32 bit) and had no problems with the install from my Radeon HD3650 PCI express card. When I attempted the x86_64 install the DVD portion went without any known issues. On the first reboot for post install configuration, I kept getting a black screen, I think similar to others that have posted to this thread. I switched to an older nVidia GeForce 5200 PCI card, reinstalled thinking that maybe I could go through the install and let the update process go through and then switch back to the ATI card (actually Diamond Multimedia). When I did this x would not start so I mv xorg.config and restarted and wound up with a white screen and unable to switch to other consoles. What gives?
MoBo = Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 790FX/SB600 chipset MPU= AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 4GB DDR2 RAM. The graphics card use the PCIe-x16 slot. BIOS is set to start with the PCIe-A first.

Second issue: This card is based on the R600 GPU, I've come across supposedly opensource drivers "hdradeon" that is supposed to be written by Novell. How does this come into play with the procedure listed at the beginning of this thread? Do I still use fglrx? Am I better off in exchanging the card for an equivalent nVIDIA card? I'd rather not. I'm not to concerned at this time with the 3D stuff, just being able to do an occasional video (better res than youtube.com).

[Linoex]

I have fglrx (catalyst 8.8) and compiz working great on fedora 9 (x86_64) with a 2.6.26 kernel! I need the 2.6.26 or newer kernel due to some usb audio glitches and network problems in the 2.6.25 kernel, unfortunately the ati drivers did not support this kernel until now. If you need catalyst 8.8 or the 2.6.26 kernel then this post is for you!

Step 1: Install the 2.6.26 kernel
- Download a 2.6.26 kernel, kernel-devel, and kernel-headers from Koji (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=59863), make sure you get x86 or x86_64 as needed.
- Install it
- Reboot

Step 2: Catalyst 8.8
- Download Catalyst 8.8 from ATI (http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/previous/linux-rf-cat88.html)
- Compile and install the driver using all the default options
chmod a+x ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run- Make sure there were no errors in the compilation (warnings are fine)
cat /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log- If there were errors, you need to resolve them.

Step 3: Downgrade xserver/mesa and install compiz
- Follow the instructions at the beginning of this topic
- **EXCEPT**: Skip "Step 2: Install the driver" (we have already done this)
- for "Step 4: Reinstall Compiz", make sure you use compiz 0.7.7 (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=173317)

Voila! Good luck!

A few notes:
- if you are getting "cannot find default font: fixed" errors, make sure there are no entries in the "Files" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
- the catalyst 8.8 drivers do not compile out of the box on the 2.6.27 kernels, you will have to edit the source files (firegl_public.c I think), not recommended for most people.

MMmm I installed the i686 kernel, but after rebooting, the os only boots into text mode.
How come??
How can I change it back so that it boots into gui?

P.S how to compile catalyst?
Since im kinda new to linux.

[stardancer]

MMmm I installed the i686 kernel, but after rebooting, the os only boots into text mode.
How come??
How can I change it back so that it boots into gui?

P.S how to compile catalyst?
Since im kinda new to linux.

Are you getting back in X? Is the Catalyst driver working? Do you have DRI working? If not, get that stuff working first. Redhat's graphical boot process uses X so if your video driver is not working, you don't get graphical boot.

The instructions for compiling Catalyst are listed in my post above. (the chmod a+x, etc.) You will get a little wizard that will walk you through the compile/install, use all the default options. Make sure you check the log after to see that the catalyst compile/install worked.

[Linoex]

Are you getting back in X? Is the Catalyst driver working? Do you have DRI working? If not, get that stuff working first. Redhat's graphical boot process uses X so if your video driver is not working, you don't get graphical boot.

The instructions for compiling Catalyst are listed in my post above. (the chmod a+x, etc.) You will get a little wizard that will walk you through the compile/install, use all the default options. Make sure you check the log after to see that the catalyst compile/install worked.

No I haven't done anything yest with the driver, while I was downloading the kernel from koji, I just decided to download the catalist, so that I wouldn't have to do it after the reboot.

So after both downloads were done I installed the kernel and rebooted, after that im not able to get into gui mode.

[stardancer]

So after both downloads were done I installed the kernel and rebooted, after that im not able to get into gui mode.

Right, you can't get into gui mode because you haven't installed the graphics driver (that is what catalyst is). So go into the directory where you downloaded the driver and type: su
chmod a+x ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run

Follow the prompts, choose the default options.

Then check the log by typing: cat /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log

You also need to downgrade xserver/mesa to get the driver to work (as mentioned in my post). To do that, follow the instructions on the first page of this thread. You will not get any graphical mode until you do this. (ie. no graphics without a graphic driver).

[Linoex]

Right, you can't get into gui mode because you haven't installed the graphics driver (that is what catalyst is). So go into the directory where you downloaded the driver and type: su
chmod a+x ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run

Follow the prompts, choose the default options.


Ok so I booted my system
Text mode

I logged in
did su
typed in the pass
got thr prompt
username@localhost
I went to the directory
I typed at the promts: chmod a+x ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run
after that nothing happned, it just gave me another prompt.

[stardancer]

I logged in
did su
typed in the pass
got thr prompt
username@localhost
I went to the directory
I typed at the promts: chmod a+x ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run
after that nothing happned, it just gave me another prompt.

I am not too sure. Can you go to the directory where you downloaded the file and type "ls -s ati*" I think maybe you did not download it correctly and this command will make sure the file is there and show you how big the file is. Also, after typing "su" and putting in the root password, you should get "root@localhost" not "username". In any case, the issue is that the installer is not running.

What you need to do is run the installer as root (the "su" command gives you root privileges, alternatively, you could log in as root). If the installer is not running, it means you are in the wrong directory or the file was not downloaded properly. I am sorry but I can't say much else than that. Good luck!

[Linoex]

I am not too sure. Can you go to the directory where you downloaded the file and type "ls -s ati*" I think maybe you did not download it correctly and this command will make sure the file is there and show you how big the file is. Also, after typing "su" and putting in the root password, you should get "root@localhost" not "username". In any case, the issue is that the installer is not running.

What you need to do is run the installer as root (the "su" command gives you root privileges, alternatively, you could log in as root). If the installer is not running, it means you are in the wrong directory or the file was not downloaded properly. I am sorry but I can't say much else than that. Good luck!

Ok I got it working(Kinda :p )
first did ls -s ati-bla-blabla size: 62548 kb

First time I did chmod a+x ati-....-....
but after that line I did ./ati-...-.... at the same prompt.

Didn't knew they were 2 separate commands since the ./ doesn't seem like a command to me.
Well anyways the ./ command worked for me, but I got an error. screenshot below

http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pict0649gn5.jpg

[stardancer]

First time I did chmod a+x ati-....-....
but after that line I did ./ati-...-.... at the same prompt.

Didn't knew they were 2 separate commands since the ./ doesn't seem like a command to me.
Well anyways the ./ command worked for me, but I got an error. screenshot below

http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pict0649gn5.jpg

Yup two separate commands :) The chmod a+x says "change the mode of the file (chmod) for all users to be executable", the ./ati... command runs the installer. "./" just means run the command that is found in the directory I am currently in.

Ok, so now you are getting the installer to run but it doesn't like your kernel version, I think. Geez, I don't know what to say. That version of the kernel worked for me, Catalyst 8.8 is supposed to work on 2.6.26. The only difference is the arch (you are i686 and I am x86_64). I dug in the ati files but I don't see an easy hack here.

Here are some things to check:
- Make sure 100% that you have Catalyst 8.8 (not 8.7) and that you downloaded the x86 version (although I think they might actually be the same file).
- Make sure you have the proper kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages installed

If you want you can try different versions of the 2.6.26 kernel, maybe you can get past the error. Maybe try:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=61373
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=59455

Otherwise, you might have to go back to 2.6.25:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=58531 is the latest one I think.

Also, something that may make your life less bothersome. Even if the fglrx driver is not working, you should be able to get regular graphical X. Modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file so that under "Device", your "Driver", is "radeon" instead of "fglrx". Try rebooting then and see if you can at least get X up, which will make restoring your kernel easier.

Honestly, I don't know what to say, Catalyst 8.8 worked for me on the kernel you have, but x86_64. Switching your whole system to 64bit, even if your processor supports it, is not a simple task and not advised. The Ati installer is conking out on your kernel version so there is either something whacky with that (no kernel-headers or kernel-devel), you are not using Catalyst 8.8, or else Ati has decided not to support that kernel on i686 for some bizarre reason.

If all else fails, try to get a 2.6.25 kernel in there, re-run the Catalyst 8.8 package, and get dri and graphics acceleration going with that. Once you are there, trying working in the 2.6.26 kernel.

Sorry this wasn't smoother for you. Good luck!

[dejai]

Followed the instructions, got kernel errors, opengl crashes with kernel errors whenever I try and open it up. Oh well it was worth a try.

[Linoex]

Mmm np, but uhm, I just took a look at Koji's website.
Im kinda confused lol.

Even though I got a 64bit cpu im running on 32bit.
At Koji I choose installer .i686.rpm, but shouldn't I choose .x86_64.rpm
Being confused now lol.
But anyways since I tried this on a fresh installed fedora it's no problem to reinstall again:)

Btw in my post above, I wrote the file size of the catilyst, can you download it or some and see if you get the same size, although i'm 99% sure, that it's the good one.

[stardancer]

Mmm np, but uhm, I just took a look at Koji's website.
Im kinda confused lol.

Even though I got a 64bit cpu im running on 32bit.
At Koji I choose installer .i686.rpm, but shouldn't I choose .x86_64.rpm
Being confused now lol.
But anyways since I tried this on a fresh installed fedora it's no problem to reinstall again:)


If you installed Fedora as 686, you downloaded the right rpms (if everything else is 686 but your kernel is x86_64, things won't go to well. (You did install the kernel headers/kernel-devel package too right? Catalyst won't build without them).

If you want to, you can do a fresh re-install with x86_64 and then it should work fine. Before you do that, I would ask the question: is it necessary that you use the 2.6.26 kernel? Newer is not always better with kernels, the 2.6.25 kernel is pretty stable and fedora puts lots of the important patches into it. If you need 2.6.26, maybe a fresh x86_64 install is the easiest way to go - it is a bit like pushing a button with a sledge-hammer but it will work I think.

[Linoex]

If you installed Fedora as 686, you downloaded the right rpms (if everything else is 686 but your kernel is x86_64, things won't go to well. (You did install the kernel headers/kernel-devel package too right? Catalyst won't build without them).

If you want to, you can do a fresh re-install with x86_64 and then it should work fine. Before you do that, I would ask the question: is it necessary that you use the 2.6.26 kernel? Newer is not always better with kernels, the 2.6.25 kernel is pretty stable and fedora puts lots of the important patches into it. If you need 2.6.26, maybe a fresh x86_64 install is the easiest way to go - it is a bit like pushing a button with a sledge-hammer but it will work I think.

No I don't really need 2.6.26
My idea wasn't the newer the better, but because you stated that in your tut, I thought that I needed the kernel to let compiz work

[stardancer]

No I don't really need 2.6.26
My idea wasn't the newer the better, but because you stated that in your tut, I thought that I needed the kernel to let compiz work

Nope! Maybe I wasn't very clear so I will be more clear for anyone else:

Stick with the regular fedora kernels unless you have some reason for using 2.6.26! Otherwise, do not hassel with the upgrade! Downgrade to 2.6.25: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=58531

[bithead]

The directions in the top post (mostly) worked for me.
There were a few exceptions. I used the ATI driver ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run. Also, I was using ATRPMS and FreshRPMs and livna for other things. I had to put an exclude line for synaptics in all of the .repo files.
exclude=synaptics
This forced the synaptic drivers to come from F8 repositories, which worked with the downgraded xorg.

Wobbly windows working here now....

BitHead

[AllgoodGuy]

Leigh,

When I type in"fglrx-config-display enable", I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/fglrx-config-display", line 152, in <module>
app = fglrxConfigDisplay()
File "/usr/sbin/fglrx-config-display", line 35, in __init__
GlxConfig.__init__(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/GlxConfig.py", line 41, in __init__
LivnaConfigDisplay.__init__(self, isVerbose)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/ConfigDisplay.py", line 45, in __init__
raise livnaConfigDisplayError(XORG_NOT_FOUND)
livnaConfigDisplay.livnaConfigDisplayError: Could not read the Xorg configuration file.
Please make sure the configuration exists and it is correctly installed.

I cannot help, but feel I'm close. I'm down to so few errors in this process, and the one's I'm receiving don't all appear to be related to the driver.

EE
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
(EE) Failed to load module "vga" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed

WW
(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(WW) The core keyboard device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(WW) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default.
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module vga
(WW) RADEON(0): R600 support is mostly incomplete and very experimental
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...

TIA for pointing me in the right direction.
Guy

[Linoex]

Nope! Maybe I wasn't very clear so I will be more clear for anyone else:

Stick with the regular fedora kernels unless you have some reason for using 2.6.26! Otherwise, do not hassel with the upgrade! Downgrade to 2.6.25: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=58531

Since I have wifi, I dont have internet in text mode.
So I will reinstall.
I will post results within 24h

[leigh123linux]

Leigh,

When I type in"fglrx-config-display enable", I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/fglrx-config-display", line 152, in <module>
app = fglrxConfigDisplay()
File "/usr/sbin/fglrx-config-display", line 35, in __init__
GlxConfig.__init__(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/GlxConfig.py", line 41, in __init__
LivnaConfigDisplay.__init__(self, isVerbose)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/ConfigDisplay.py", line 45, in __init__
raise livnaConfigDisplayError(XORG_NOT_FOUND)
livnaConfigDisplay.livnaConfigDisplayError: Could not read the Xorg configuration file.
Please make sure the configuration exists and it is correctly installed.

I cannot help, but feel I'm close. I'm down to so few errors in this process, and the one's I'm receiving don't all appear to be related to the driver.

EE
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
(EE) Failed to load module "vga" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed

WW
(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(WW) The core keyboard device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(WW) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default.
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module vga
(WW) RADEON(0): R600 support is mostly incomplete and very experimental
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...

TIA for pointing me in the right direction.
Guy

You have no xorg.conf !


su
yum install wget
wget http://leigh123.homelinux.com/ad/xorg.conf -O /etc/X11/xorg.conf

reboot

[sabrelinux]

FC9 - ATi X700 (detected and working) - Attempted install of Compiz - Fusion

I am not sure where i messed. Everything worked just fine. Followed the directions just find, however when i turn on compiz - i hear system beeps then VERY shortly after Xwindows crashes completely and have to hard reset out. The compiz-check does fail. *** while writing this i found i needed to disable Selinux *** Is there any way to make this work without disabling this? Isn't that somewhat of a security concern?

[devraj]

i downloaded the ati x 1250 drivers from www.ati.com (ati-driver-installer*.run)
since startx is not working i installed the drivers from text mode as root

apparently it got installed but fglrxconfig at the command line says command not found

startx at the command line gives an error as follows in the /var/Xorg.0.log

(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: miZeroLineScreenIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.99.901, module version = 1.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.99.901, module version = 1.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

how do i get the startx to give the graphical mode

thanks

[Demz]

thats the problem downloading a propietry driver from the manufacturers website.. it isnt compiled for the kernel, so what your gonna have to do is compile that driver for the kernel your using or remove it an install the rpm driver from livna thats compiled for the kernel your using

[bithead]

Two points:
1) the config utility from ati is called aticonfig, not fglrxconfig. Call it with "aticonfig --initial" to fill xorg.conf with screens. This will get you going with a single screen setup.
2) modprobe fglrx. If you have it, the command will return nothing. If you don't it will complain about the module not existing. If it complains, you did not successfully install ati-driver-intaller*.run

bithead

[Linoex]

Ok did reinstall + full update

[root@localhost Download]# cat /usr/share/ati/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 readme.
[root@localhost Download]#

[interflop]

I followed the directions and got my ATI video drivers working but I lost the scroll feature of my synaptic touchpad. How can I fix this?

[AltGrendel]

Hello Leigh.

I followed your instructions to the letter on a new FC9 64 bit install and it all worked perfectly.

And I just wanted you to know the the link to check if your ATI card is supported is a dead link.

Thanks for all your efforts.

[Bad2theBone]

I propbably wasn't clear on my last post, but does anyone know if you need to downgrade xorg if you use the hdradeon drivers. I had run into a thread somewhere else that stated that AMD/ATI had contracted Novell to wirte the new drivers for their boards (linux that is). It providded a link to OpenSuse where there were several rpms for Suse, Fedora, Redhat etc, as well as .deb files for the debian based distros. I later upgraded (fresh install) to F 9 x86_64 and got the balck screen on first reboot. Got the system up with my old nVidia PCI card, and later switched back to my ATI HD3650 using the generic VESA drive. I then installed X.org X11 radeonhd driver for AMD GPG r5xx/r6xx Chipsets. through the package manger. I am not in any need for the special effects just the ability of watching a recent episode of House while working on my PC. The graphics console works fine, but the character consoles all have garbage all across them making it had to read. Would this be fixed with downgrading Xorg? Using the above mentioned driver how would this change the guide in post #1? Hopefully I'm a little clearer in what I'm looking for, this time.

[bithead]

The only synaptics driver that will work is from FC8. Uninstall the leftover from F9:
rpm -e --nodeps synaptics
Then put a line in any other repos (ATRPS, FreshRPMs, livna) to exclude synaptics. (/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo)
exclude=synaptics
Then reinstall synaptics.
yum -y install synaptics
The one you get should have .fc8 somewhere in the file name. If it doesn't, you will have to note which repository it is from, uninstall synaptics again, and disable that repo when you install it again.

BitHead

[bithead]

I have used the radeon hd drivers. They will work in 2D mode, but they do not provide 3D extensions. No compiz, beryl, kde4, whatever. I did not have to downgrade xorg to use them.
The problem with the text consoles is likely related to the vesa driver, not xorg. Downgrading is not likely to help, but using the "ati" driver or the radeon hd driver will.
Since radeon hd will not get opengl working, it is inappropriate to add it to the guide on post #1.

BitHead

[leigh123linux]

The only synaptics driver that will work is from FC8. Uninstall the leftover from F9:
rpm -e --nodeps synaptics
Then put a line in any other repos (ATRPS, FreshRPMs, livna) to exclude synaptics. (/etc/yum.repos.conf/*.repo)
exclude=synaptics
Then reinstall synaptics.
yum -y install synaptics
The one you get should have .fc8 somewhere in the file name. If it doesn't, you will have to note which repository it is from, uninstall synaptics again, and disable that repo when you install it again.

BitHead


My guide does this !


su
wget http://www.linux-ati-drivers.homecall.co.uk/fedora8.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora8.repo
yum remove xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-server-common libsynaptics synaptics
rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils




Now, edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo

Code:

su
perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo


Then put a line in any other repos (ATRPS, FreshRPMs, livna) to exclude synaptics. (/etc/yum.repos.conf/*.repo)


What is the point of editing these repo's as none of them provide synaptics :confused:

[Bad2theBone]

I have used the radeon hd drivers. They will work in 2D mode, but they do not provide 3D extensions. No compiz, beryl, kde4, whatever. I did not have to downgrade xorg to use them.

Ok, not a problem for me at this time as I don't do any 3D stuff, I'm not a gamer, just like to watch an occasional episode of House, Bones, or even Star Trek while using my PC.

The problem with the text consoles is likely related to the vesa driver, not xorg. Downgrading is not likely to help, but using the "ati" driver or the radeon hd driver will.
Since radeon hd will not get opengl working, it is inappropriate to add it to the guide on post #1.

Actually I get the garbage on the text terminals using the radeonhd driver, I am not sure with the vesa driver. I haven't tried booting to init 3 yet with the radeonhd. I'll make an update post when I do that with the results.

BitHead

I have run into the mail list for the Suse page in regards to this driver, and it appears that it is a reported bug with the current git version as far as the text consoles (TTY1, TTY2, etc...) For those that don't have it here is the link:

http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/ (http://http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/)

In the meantime thanks BitHead for your response.

[bithead]

>>What is the point of editing these repo's as none of them provide synaptics

Actually, the one that got me was atrpms. I'm not sure about freshrpms or livna, but i threw that in there for a pre-emptory strike. Yes, your guide does cover this, but only for fedora and fedora updates.
Sorry, didn't mean to impugne...

BitHead

[bithead]

Sorry, my bad. I misread the mail to mean that he was experiencing the problem using the vesa driver.
I just meant to say that the problem is driver related, not xorg related.

Bithead

[geribek]

Hi everyone!

I had my PackageKit updated, and now it says that there are available X11 updates. I'm using compiz, so i had to downgrade my X11 once, and I'm not sure if that new X versision supports my HD2400 card, and so far i haven't upgraded because i don't want to downgrade again if it fails. Am i right, or should i update it, is it better in some way if i want to use opengl? Now, I've only one problem with the driver: If I want to watch a film i have to disable compiz, otherwise it blinks rapidly, it's not very comfortable but i can take it:)

[devraj]

in the very first post a method is given to install drivers by using wget http....

can i instead download the drivers and then install them, because i am accessing net only on another computer

thanks

devraj

[Demz]

in the very first post a method is given to install drivers by using wget http....

can i instead download the drivers and then install them, because i am accessing net only on another computer

thanks

devraj
when you say your using the net on another computer..is that Windows? ..yes you can download the drivers manually but yum will search for Dependancies during install ..is your other PC connected to the net at all?

[devraj]

yes it is the same laptop but dual booted, so when i boot in windows i can use the net, FC9 is also on the same laptop, but it is in text mode, and being new to linux i am not able to enable net there,

[devraj]

how can i enable net on FC9 if it is on text mode
i have broadnabd so i must give ip addreses

[Lukast]

Hello,
I got Ati Radeon XPress 1100,
I followed this tutorial -- it worked for me til today.

I updated today and the X server do not want to start anymore...What can I do about it?

Here is the Xorg.0.log



X.Org X Server 1.4.99.905 (1.5.0 RC 5)
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen i686
Current Operating System: Linux aspire.localhost 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 14:08:11 EDT 2008 i686
Build Date: 02 July 2008 01:36:37PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.4.99.905-2.20080702.fc9
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Sep 11 15:56:03 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
(**) | |-->Device "Videocard0"
(==) No monitor specified for screen "Screen0".
Using a default monitor configuration.
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Synaptics"
(**) Option "AIGLX" "on"
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) FontPath set to:
catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
built-ins
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(**) Extension "Composite" is enabled
(II) No default mouse found, adding one
(**) |-->Input Device "<default pointer>"
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) Loader magic: 0x81ed400
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 4.1
X.Org XInput driver : 2.1
X.Org Server Extension : 1.1
X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6
(II) Loader running on linux
(--) using VT number 7

(--) PCI:*(0@1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] rev 0, Mem @ 0xc0000000/0, 0xb0100000/0, I/O @ 0x00009000/0, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
(II) System resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
[9] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[10] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[11] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[12] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[16] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
[22] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[23] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
[24] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[25] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
[26] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[27] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
[28] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[29] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.99.905, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension SELinux
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.99.905, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "glx"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.99.905, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(**) AIGLX enabled
(**) Exporting typical set of GLX visuals
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts//libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
compiled for 1.4.99.905, module version = 2.1.0
Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.6
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "dri"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.99.905, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "dri2"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri2.so
(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.99.905, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension DRI2
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: miZeroLineScreenIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.2.2
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7
(EE) module ABI major version (0) doesn't match the server's version (2)
(II) UnloadModule: "kbd"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so: undefined symbol: miPointerGetMotionEvents
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
(EE) Failed to load module "synaptics" (loader failed, 7)
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so: undefined symbol: miPointerGetMotionEvents
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
(EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

[saceirdoth]

(i don't speek english)

It's because of updates repository : http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=198892

With the new repo locations, you have downloaded the xserver of F9.

"exclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics" must be in this repos (/etc/yum.repos.d)

[Lukast]

So what now?
I will try to follow tutorial again...
Any other help?

[Bass Reflex]

A bit of light on this... not sure maybe it has something to do with SELINUX. No Clue.

I followed the guide 100% everything was working great. Yesterday I got some updates to x11 from fedora9. Now... this is the weird part. I've double checked. I had all of the exclusions listed in both /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo and for some reason they kept showing up. Of course as soon as I installed the updates X crashed. Why were they still showing up even though I had the exclusions listed? Can anyone explain this?

At the moment im using the radeonhd driver. It is working fine (sort of) because I do not want 3d or compiz. The one issue im having with the radeonhd is that i would like dual head / spanning desktop. Does anyone know if this is possible with the radeonhd driver? I really only want the dual head and i'd be happy. Any clues or tips you can give? Thanks!


(i don't speek english)

It's because of updates repository : http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=198892

With the new repo locations, you have downloaded the xserver of F9.

"exclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics" must be in this repos (/etc/yum.repos.d)


Ok I did not read this before my post. So they moved the repo locations and thats why the excludes were not working? If so how do we fix this so it doesnt happen again? Where did they move the new repo locations to?

[leigh123linux]

I have edited post #1


Due to the Fedora repo changes you will need to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-newkey.repo


su
perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-newkey.repo

[leigh123linux]

I have edited post #1


Due to the Fedora repo changes you will need to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-newkey.repo


su
perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-newkey.repo

[Bass Reflex]

I have edited post #1


Due to the Fedora repo changes you will need to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-newkey.repo


su
perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-newkey.repo


Thanks for updating the front page!

Due to the possible security risks (the reason the new keys were issued)... do we need to delete the old fedora-updates.repo? I am somewhat new to linux on the security aspect and just dont see how putting in a new repo helps if the old repo is still getting updates. (or will the old fedora-updates.repo not get updates because of the change made to packagekit?)

Sorry, know its a little off topic.

[leigh123linux]

Thanks for updating the front page!

Due to the possible security risks (the reason the new keys were issued)... do we need to delete the old fedora-updates.repo? I am somewhat new to linux on the security aspect and just dont see how putting in a new repo helps if the old repo is still getting updates. (or will the old fedora-updates.repo not get updates because of the change made to packagekit?)

Sorry, know its a little off topic.


do we need to delete the old fedora-updates.repo?

No

The next fedora-release update will probably delete the fedora-updates-newkey.repo

I am somewhat new to linux on the security aspect and just dont see how putting in a new repo helps if the old repo is still getting updates.

I believe the new repo is temporary , the fedora-updates repo is empty apart from the packages needed for the key change over

http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/x86_64/

[lordamus]

I forget to exclude packages for newkey update repo and I updated then I do

perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-newkey.repo

then I follow the tutorial again and remove xorg and install f8 one..etc but only 1 packages mesa-libGLU and mesa-libGLU-devel cant installed coz newer F9 one updates earlier when I try to remove it list lots of deps how can I replace f8 rpm over f9 one without removing deps ?

[leigh123linux]

I forget to exclude packages for newkey update repo and I updated then I do

perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nexclude=xorg* linuxwacom* rhpxl* mesa* libsynaptics synaptics/" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-newkey.repo

then I follow the tutorial again and remove xorg and install f8 one..etc but only 1 packages mesa-libGLU and mesa-libGLU-devel cant installed coz newer F9 one updates earlier when I try to remove it list lots of deps how can I replace f8 rpm over f9 one without removing deps ?


Post# 1 section 1 should remove them !

rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-dri-drivers glx-utils

[lordamus]

as I said I did that removing part too... btw I installed mesa-libGLU fc8 packages manually... and then updated system... and install compiz again problem solved... this new update chaos split everything it cost me lots of hours :mad:

[Hatrist]

Just a quick question - can I use this guide to install fglrx for my card (Radeon HD4850)? I can see it is supported in the ATi website, but I've had a lot of trouble with the driver lately and would really appreciate if someone confirms it. Thanks!

[Demz]

does the latest Driver ( ATI ) support it? if so i cant see why you cant install it

[AllgoodGuy]

Hatrist, from the poll at the top of the page you can see this.

Yes 179 54.57%
No 95 28.96%
Nearly worked 54 16.46%
Voters: 328.

Nobody will tell you this will work or not, definitively, you're going to have to try it out for yourself. Some of us see absolution, others see no change. But I'm confident in saying that you have an 83% chance of it helping you get fglrx installed and working to some degree.

But yes, you can use this guide.