F16 ATI catalyst

[Linisth]

Hi, I'm new to Fedora and linux, not a total noob, but a very rusty linux user, anyway, so I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 on my laptop and it has dual video card, I belive that this version of fedora (Fedora 16) recognized my integrated intel video card, but I want to use the ATI video card for better graphics since it has a dedicated 1GB of memory...

I have seen a few about 2 or 3 different ways to install the driver,,, but, no luck,,,

could anyone point me out on the right direction please?

Thank you in advance

[palast]

Hi,
When I installed catalyst, than I within the starting get this:
SYSV: grant or revoke access to X for the ATI external Events Daemons

I upgrade FC15 to FC16 with yum. Do you have any idea?

[thunderwinde]

I had the same problem with a black screen after upgrade (had the proprietary driver installed). Turns out somehow the installation process reverted all settings so that Fedora thought it was running the radeon driver, but with catalyst installed.

The solution proved simple enough, once I figured out what was happening. Just uninstalled the catalyst drivers and reinstalled from rpmfusion.

Hint: If the splash screen you're getting stuck on is the one with the Fedora logo in the middle of a blank screen and you used to have the catalyst drivers installed (which gives you the splash screen with the three-coloured bar at the bottom of the screen), this may be your problem too. Basically just log into recovery mode (or into terminal mode and then log in as root), then

# yum -y remove kmod-catalyst akmod-catalyst

# yum -y install kmod-catalyst akmod-catalyst

# reboot

This is, of course, assuming you already have the rpmfusion repos configured. If not, you'll have to configure them before being able to reinstall catalyst.

This is, at least, what solved my problem. Hope it helps.

[palast]

It, wasn"t work. I have reinstall it several times.

[ErikLehnsherr]

I installed the drivers but gnome desktop crashes sometimes when I receive empathy messages and system alerts. Sometimes the gnome desktop fail to load when system starts. Also vídeo stream is laging, but the open source drivers lag also, the proprietor has less lag. Both open source and proprietor can't deliver an full performance experience with my card, so I will try a virtual machine to play games on windows.
I use an laptop with ATI Integrated GPU, so I can't simple change to nVidia and send ATI to hell :/

@edit
I installed KDE and everything works better. Uninstalled the proprietor drives also and using the open source.
Looks like the ATI on F16 have issues with Gnome Shell.

[Sigsev]

Hi everybody.
I followed two simple steps for making the ATI-Catalyst driver work fine (I don't remember where I found them, maybe in several places).

1st.
Add two commands to the kernel line in grub2:
"rhgb radeon.modeset=0"
(without the quotes)

2nd.
If no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file exists, then create a new one with the following three lines:
Section "Extensions"
Option "XVideo" "Disable"
EndSection
(with all the quotes)

If an /etx/X11/xorg.conf file exists, then add the three above lines to it.

Everything is working very well for me. Hope this helps someone.
Regards from Spain, and sorry about my bad english =)

[TK492]

Sigsev,

Does your fix make graphics rendering work properly, or does is (also) help reduce GPU heat and fan speed?

For now my graphics card is doing everything properly except for generating a lot of heat with a fan spinning all the time. I just want to make sure if your fix is relevant before giving it a try.

Thanks!

[ekdimagio]

Sigsev , do you have an aswer for TK492???

TK492's I want to ask you,after these settings that you made the cmd : echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile solve the problem???

[TK492]

ekdimagio,

Unfortunately, I'm under the impression that it did not solve the problem. It might of helped a little bit, but I'm still seeking for a proper fix that will resolve the fan and heat properly.

I do find however that using MATE for example will make the computer run about 3 degrees Celsius cooler than with GNOME 3.

[Sigsev]

Originally Posted by TK492

Sigsev,

Does your fix make graphics rendering work properly, or does is (also) help reduce GPU heat and fan speed?

For now my graphics card is doing everything properly except for generating a lot of heat with a fan spinning all the time. I just want to make sure if your fix is relevant before giving it a try.

Thanks!

Sorry for the absence.
I used this fix to solve the problem that caused Xserver Segmentation Fault when you played a video. I think this is not happening anymore. This also fixed the 'blank screen' at boot time.
Anyway, for now, I'm using the free driver. Few months ago I was playing World of Warcraft under Wine and I needed the propietary driver, because the free one caused Wine to crash, rendering was very very bad and I couldn't play.
Now I'm not playing Wow anymore and I don't need the propietary driver.
Few weeks ago I started to 'play' with the Switchable graphics feature of my laptop, powering off the discrete graphics card by tiping:

echo off  > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

Then you have to press "ctrl + alt + backspace" to restart X.
If you want to go back to your ATi card:

echo DDIS  > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

Then you have to press "ctrl + alt + backspace" to restart X.
This turn off automaticaly my integrated GPU.
It is working for me with the kernel:

kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17.x86_64

Unfortunately this don't seems to fix the problem with the GPU heat (from my experience).

Due to University tasks, sometimes I need to open two virtual machines and my laptop gets very hot, even powering off the discrete GPU.
I have to try:

echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

...and see what's going on.
Thank you.

[VietHuong]

Sixseg,
I want to ask you for my problem. Why does fedora system change file that had been modified to the initial time? After reboot I must perform some command again. And which away for this problem.
Sorry, I'm vietnamese. May be your typing above is not correct.