ATI drivers won't work

[tronic]

I'm using FC5 with kernel 2.6.16-1.2080, with a ati 9550. I followed the guide on http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html

and then rebooted and tried fglrxinfo

[root@localhost lyle]# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.2)

If i understand correctly i should not see "mesa" on there. What can i do to get the ati drivers to work. Thanks

[LocutusOfBorg]

let's double check a couple of things...
post the output of

rpm -qa | grep fglrx

and of

uname -r

[tronic]

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep fglrx
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.23.7-4.lvn5
kmod-fglrx-8.23.7-4.2.6.16_1.2080_FC5

[root@localhost ~]# uname -r
2.6.16-1.2080_FC5
[root@localhost ~]#

[LocutusOfBorg]

It seems all right. Is the fglrx driver listed in your xorg.conf or there is the radeon driver instead?

[tronic]

heres my xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]"
EndSection

[LocutusOfBorg]

Backup your file, then try changing manually the line

Driver "radeon"

to

Driver "fglrx"

Then reboot. At boot you should see something like

checking for fglrx driver                                     [ok]

[tronic]

well i think that worked, becuse now in the ati config gui it shows the cards specs. I"m used to nvidia cards, and in the xorg.conf you would comment out dri and glcore, is there anything that i need to comment out with ati? thanks

[LocutusOfBorg]

is there anything that i need to comment out with ati?

I dunno, but if now it works I imagine not. On the pc I'm using now there's a nVidia - I have ATI on my others pcs so I can't check now.

[tronic]

Thanks for the help.