ATI 5750 Graphic Card

[piker]

Hello. I'm traying to install a driver for this GPU but I can't. I downloaded the propetary driver from ATI but after installing, the Graphic interface doesn't start. To enter with the graphic interface I have to sustitute /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to a previous version. The gdm starts if xorg.conf file says driver="vesa" but if it says driver="radeon" has the same behaviour as installing ATi driver. I simply run the installer to install it. Does someone know how to install it well? Is an official driver for Fedora12? I would really appreciate some help.

I'm using Fedora Core 12 x86_64 and I have the versions needed for the kernel, glibc and XOrg.

The installation LOG:

[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
AMD kernel module generator version 2.1
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
rm -rf *.c *.h *.o *.ko *.GCC* .??* *.symvers
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64/build SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64'
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
In file included from /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:443:
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/drm_proc.h: En la función ‘FGLDRM__vma_info’:
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/drm_proc.h:497: aviso: el formato ‘%08lx’ espera el tipo ‘long unsigned int’, pero el argumento 5 es de tipo ‘phys_addr_t’
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: En la función ‘KCL_SetPageCache_Array’:
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:1316: aviso: el paso del argumento 1 de ‘KCL_ConvertPageToKernelAddress’ crea un puntero desde un entero sin una conversión
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.h:325: nota: se esperaba ‘void *’ pero el argumento es de tipo ‘long unsigned int’
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_acpi.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_agp.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_debug.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_io.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_pci.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_str.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_wait.o
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.mod.o
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64'
build succeeded with return value 0
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
You must change your working directory to /lib/modules/fglrx
and then call ./make_install.sh in order to install the built module.
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel modules
done.

Sorry for my english and thanks!!

[ozjd]

According to the how to in the Guides forum - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=155503 there is no current driver compatible with Fedora.

However many people are successful using the default driver and adding mesa -dri-drivers-experimental if 3d is needed.

[Memysabu]

Originally Posted by ozjd

However many people are successful using the default driver and adding mesa-dri-drivers-experimental if 3d is needed.

That will not give him 3d support for his card. Ive tested it, mesa does add a little 3d support for older cards but not much and its purely experimental thus the name. The new driver catalyst 10.4 will be released by the end of the month (maybe) thats just the rumor. Maybe next month if things go bad. I am running a beta version of the 10.4 driver but I had to write the install.

No flgrx driver will be compatible with fedora 12 until 10.4 is released. This is due to Xorg updating and ATI not making a new driver to work with Xorg. Fedora is the bleeding edge of RHEL so it comes with a price. I have someone testing my installer for the new driver as we speak, once the bugs are worked out you are welcome to it. Just refer to the catalyst 10.4 thread in this forum.

Mesa experimental drivers are fine until then. It irks me that people recomend them. It is a fix for your 2d issues but with this line and the integrated Radeon cards its not a fix for 3d and wont be for a very long time.

[del_diablo]

However many people are successful using the default driver and adding mesa -dri-drivers-experimental if 3d is needed.

Blah, mesa dri experimental are far good enough to be of any use. Its not updated enough, they should have slipped over the GIT and updated it daily instead.

[piker]

Ok thanks!!.
So I'll have to wait until "memysabu" debug the installer of the beta or the 10.4 driver is released, right?. There's not a way to install compiz without the graphic card driver, no?.
I haven't understand something, the problem is that ATI driver doesn't work with the newest versions of xorg? so I't would work on previous versions of xorg or fedora?.
Thanks again!

[Memysabu]

Yeah but theres no 3d for your card with the old driver that I know of. Hammering out the bugs right now gotta finish off the openGL bit.