ati proprietary driver

[nemesisinfinity]

I installed the driver following ati's instructions and now when i get to where i should see the login screen my monitor flickers on and off with some rainbor colors on the top inch of the screen...any help?

[nemesisinfinity]

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[leigh123linux]

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[Hoyt]

Originally Posted by nemesisinfinity

I installed the driver following ati's instructions and now when i get to where i should see the login screen my monitor flickers on and off with some rainbor colors on the top inch of the screen...any help?

I have the same problem with Fedora-10 when I try to use the fglrx driver installed either by Firewing1 or Leigh123 prescription. I can use the radeon driver but not the radeonhd driver.

Hardware: Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra 939 MB - 1GB DDR ram (SMP bios update)
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+
On-board LAN1 - Marvell 8001 chip (maybe significant?) - cannot be shut off
On-board LAN2 - ICS 1883 chip - normally shut off as F-10 networking messes up otherwise
Video: Sapphire - ATI Radeon HD3650 8X agp - 512 MB DDR2

My system is multiboot including 32 bit versions of Fedora 9, 10, 11 (preview -updated)
Fedora 9 uses fglrx driver - shows good acceleration (occasional lock-up)
Fedora 10 - as above
Fedora 11 - no fglrx yet - radeonhd driver fails

When F-10 is booted into level 3 and x-server started I get the following message:
fglrx(0): Output CRT1 enabled but has no modes
Fatal server error
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

Thoughts anyone?

[nemesisinfinity]

so does fedora 9 work ok with the radeon drivers? is it just a 10 issue then?

[Hoyt]

Originally Posted by nemesisinfinity

so does fedora 9 work ok with the radeon drivers? is it just a 10 issue then?

For me - Fedora 9 - radeon driver OK (no acceleration/3D) GoogleEarth complains
fglrx driver works (acceleration/3D) GoogleEarth smooth
radeonhd driver won't work (black screen)

So I use the fglrx driver - but F9 is approaching EOL

Fedora 10 - only radeon driver works

Fedora 11- only radeon driver works

I wonder if the Marvell chip is affecting the video - I can't pin it down.

[nemesisinfinity]

so with fglrx drive think it will wine to play wow?

also does anyone know about uninstalling the radeon driver in just init 3? changing it to mesa doesnt work for me

[Hoyt]

My situation with Fedora 10 is changed. Alerted by a message in another thread, I downloaded the catalyst driver from rpmfusion. Instalation was straightforward. Now I have 3D/acceleration (just as with Fedora 9).
The catalyst driver dosen't seem to be available for Fedora 11 yet.

[nemesisinfinity]

what method did you use to install it? leigh's?

[Hoyt]

I downloaded and installed using the graphical "yumex" - then just loged out and back in to restart x-server. Nothing special.

[marvin_ita]

I've also just changed my hardware from nvidia to ati... I got some problems, but finally I decided to use standard radeon drivers for the moment.

From what I understand in F11 catalyst drivers (latest version available) don't work because of problems related to new Xserver 1.6 (or maybe the 2.6.29 kernel... or both).

In F10 I have no problems with radeon or radeonhd drivers (with ati 4850), but I prefer radeon for some powerplay management that is not implemented in radeonhd.

to nemesisinfinity: if you have installed ati drivers not from rpmfusion repos I'm not sure how to uninstall. But when I uninstalled drivers from repos I had to issue also a "yum reinstall *mesa*", because ati drivers overwrites some libraries. Try with that and modify your xorg.conf, this is mine (should be something like standard):

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

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

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
EndSection

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

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

[nemesisinfinity]

hmmm...i dunno i did the driver listed in yumex fglrx and catalyst ones im gonna take a break from messing with it i think its starting to annoy me lol

[Hoyt]

While using this driver installed as mentioned above, I've had occasional
display/mouse freezes, sometimes lasting several seconds.

After adding "nopat" to the grub kernel line, these seem to have stopped.
The mouse action also seems smoother and less erratic.

It would appear that some upstream kernel work needs doing to fix this. Whose cage
should be rattled?

[nemesisinfinity]

i wonder if its something to do with me having a 4850? im going to try and redo it again with fedora and see how it goes....i need to find a cmd that i can put into text mode that will restore the default driver that way i dont have to keep reinstalling

[Hoyt]

Originally Posted by nemesisinfinity

i wonder if its something to do with me having a 4850? im going to try and redo it again with fedora and see how it goes....i need to find a cmd that i can put into text mode that will restore the default driver that way i dont have to keep reinstalling

I'm not sure I understand your problem. Are you trying to remove "catalyst" or "fglrx" drivers from Fedora 10?

The easy way for me was:
1. boot into level3 and open a root terminal

2. execute rpm -qa | grep flgrx (you'd use catalyst if needed)

3. the four rpms shown are to be removed. yum remove xxxx (where xxxx is the xorg driver; that ought to cause yum to specify all four rpms).

4. just for grins, remove xorg.conf from /etc/X11 - it will be reconstituted.

5. Shutdown and reboot into your graphical user account. The radeon driver should have been enabled.

I've not had occasion to remove the catalyst 9.5 driver - it worked right off. The fglrx would not.