ATI confusion

frank ross · #1 3rd March 2007, 03:55 AM

I've been reading the huge number of postings about ATI and the flgrx driver issue. I'm now hopelessly confused. I'm running FC6 64bit with a Radeon X1600. I've tried the radeon driver and "ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run"; both of them break Xwindows.
Is it really possible to get 3D graphics going without weeks of frustration?
Where can I go to get a compiled driver for this card in rpm format (I'm on dialup and can't easily use yum for large files)?
I got dragged into ATI's web after years of Linux/nvidia because RHEL was supported; I foolishly jumped to the conclusion that the same drivers would work for Fedora.

Thank you
Frank

jacksmash · #2 3rd March 2007, 10:46 PM

have you tried installing fglrx? I got it to work with my ATI card today.

yum install kmod-fglrx

Hope this helps.

frank ross · #3 4th March 2007, 08:31 PM

I feared many hours of downloading but it took just a few minutes. Here's the output from your command; it seems a bit baffled about what to do next.

[root@localhost ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.9 MB 10:52
################################################## 6027/6027
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 562 kB 02:59
################################################## 1693/1693
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: kmod-fglrx
Nothing to do

Thank you
frank

ruckus · #4 5th March 2007, 11:14 AM

Have you tried installing the ati-x11-drv package from freshrpms.net?

I have been using this for the last few months and it works reasonably well despite the well-known bugs with logging out etc.

frank ross · #5 7th March 2007, 04:29 AM

A good lead, ruckus, but I don't understand the dependency problems. The rpm looks like it was compiled for exactly my system- I'm a little nervous about forcing the install since that would probably break FC6.

[root@localhost Fedora6]# rpm -ivh ati-x11-drv-8.33.6-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
warning: ati-x11-drv-8.33.6-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
dkms is needed by ati-x11-drv-8.33.6-1.fc6.x86_64
libstdc++.so.5()(64bit) is needed by ati-x11-drv-8.33.6-1.fc6.x86_64
libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2)(64bit) is needed by ati-x11-drv-8.33.6-1.fc6.x86_64
libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2)(64bit) is needed by ati-x11-drv-8.33.6-1.fc6.x86_64

Thank you
frank

ruckus · #6 8th March 2007, 02:36 PM

You can get dkms from fedora extras. I'm not sure why you're getting version errors with the libstdc++ package if everything is up to date.

If you haven't already, try using yum to sort out these dependencies. You didn't seem to be using the freshrpms repository in yum from the output above so try adding the following to a new file called freshrpms.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d:

Code:

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/
mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
gpgcheck=0

Try running

Code:

yum install ati-x11-drv

and see if it resolves anything.

If you've tried all this already, you could have a look at this messageboard for more help.

ruckus

sideways · #7 8th March 2007, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frank ross

I feared many hours of downloading but it took just a few minutes. Here's the output from your command; it seems a bit baffled about what to do next.

[root@localhost ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.9 MB 10:52
################################################## 6027/6027
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 562 kB 02:59
################################################## 1693/1693
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: kmod-fglrx
Nothing to do

Thank you
frank

You need to enable the livna repository for this to work

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

Most ati problems are due to xorg.conf configurations, see here for how to set up xorg.conf for both the fglrx driver and the opensource radeon driver

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...62&postcount=3