FC3 and ATI fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.6 works - but ONLY FOR ROOT

[FedSte69]

I have a HP Compaq NC8000 Notebook with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9600, I could successfully install
FC3 and also the fglrx Driver (3.14.6). The installation works as follows (assuming kernel
2.6.9-1.681_FC3 from the FC3 update).

1. Install Linux Kernel sources:
# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/
# tar xvfjp /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2
# ln -s linux-2.6.9 linux-2.6

2. Install fglrx RPM:
# rpm --replacefiles -ivh fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.6.i386.rpm
(ignore errors)

3. Fix /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/Makefile:
Replace the line
-Idrivers/char/drm/ \
by
-I/usr/src/linux-2.6.9/drivers/char/drm \

4. Build and install fglrx.ko:
# cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x
# make
# cp fglrx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/kernel/drivers/char/drm
# depmod -ae

5. Run fglrxconfig and create a symlink in /etc/X11:
# cd /etc/X11
# ln -s XF86Config-4 xorg.conf



Works nicely for root, but, oddly enough, not for normal users. When I try to login as a non-root user,
the screen freezes for a moment when trying to initialize Gnome. Immediately after that I get logged off.
/var/log/gdm/:0.log contains messages of that sort:

No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0

With KDE everything works nicely. Root can also login without any problems, as mentioned above.

Sounds like a access permission problem. Any ideas?

Thanks
Stefan

[telmo]

When you say it works, do you mean with 3D acceleration?
Have you tried it with gnome?

I have a graphic card just like yours and i would PAY to get it to work fully!!!

[FIrehawk]

You know, I too noticed that root would get into Gnome just fine, but my other user accounts crash randomly after a couple seconds. Maybe a little later I will switch over to that driver again and see about 3D. If I remember right, I might have tried it and gotten a crash...

[royoni]

Originally Posted by FedSte69

I have a HP Compaq NC8000 Notebook with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9600, I could successfully install
FC3 and also the fglrx Driver (3.14.6). The installation works as follows (assuming kernel
2.6.9-1.681_FC3 from the FC3 update).

1. Install Linux Kernel sources:
# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/
# tar xvfjp /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2
# ln -s linux-2.6.9 linux-2.6

2. Install fglrx RPM:
# rpm --replacefiles -ivh fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.6.i386.rpm
(ignore errors)

3. Fix /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/Makefile:
Replace the line
-Idrivers/char/drm/ \
by
-I/usr/src/linux-2.6.9/drivers/char/drm \

4. Build and install fglrx.ko:
# cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x
# make
# cp fglrx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/kernel/drivers/char/drm
# depmod -ae

5. Run fglrxconfig and create a symlink in /etc/X11:
# cd /etc/X11
# ln -s XF86Config-4 xorg.conf



Works nicely for root, but, oddly enough, not for normal users. When I try to login as a non-root user,
the screen freezes for a moment when trying to initialize Gnome. Immediately after that I get logged off.
/var/log/gdm/:0.log contains messages of that sort:

No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0

With KDE everything works nicely. Root can also login without any problems, as mentioned above.

Sounds like a access permission problem. Any ideas?

Thanks
Stefan

It also works for me on FC2 with kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 and I can boot into X with 3D support but the problem is that when I try to shut down form X then some Black/White stripe appear on the screen and it freeze and fail to shut off?
I am running on a IBM T42 with M9600, can you advice me how to fix this?
Thank you!

[dan gaffney]

FedSte69,

have you set access to OpenGL ICD to all users (it pops up in the Q & A with fglrx_config) ? I had the same problem because I accidentally set Access to OpenGL ICD to root only. Have a look at the Section "dri" in your XF86config file. Mode should be set to 0666. If not rerun flgrxconfig and answer the question :
"Please specify which restriction sheme you want to implement:"
with the default [1] ,
"1. no restrictions - any user has access to the OpenGL ICD"
Sorry if you tried this already,
D

[FedSte69]

Hi guys,

thanks for your posts. I was a bit too optimistic - it doesn't work for root, either. I can
start the GNOME desktop, which works nicely (this doesn't work for non-root users), but if
I try to run e.g. glxgears the X session gets killed and I get logged out.

Please find attached a tar.gz file which contains my xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/gdm/:0.log.

Seems to be an GL access rights problem though the OpenGL settings in xorg.conf are correct
as far as I can see.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Stefan

[royoni]

Originally Posted by FedSte69

Hi guys,

thanks for your posts. I was a bit too optimistic - it doesn't work for root, either. I can
start the GNOME desktop, which works nicely (this doesn't work for non-root users), but if
I try to run e.g. glxgears the X session gets killed and I get logged out.

Please find attached a tar.gz file which contains my xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/gdm/:0.log.

Seems to be an GL access rights problem though the OpenGL settings in xorg.conf are correct
as far as I can see.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Stefan

Hi, have you tried the following link?
http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/linux/radeon.shtml