I'm trying to install the ATI Drivers off thier website. I've gotten the correct version and everything, but when I ran thier rpm, I got an error, so I went to thier site to figure out how to manually kick off the install scripts.

As you can probably guess, it didn't go so well, here's the error output (it's the same output as when I tried the rpm)

[root@mail fglrx]# sh make_install.sh
- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted
failed.

So I tried to do a modprobe fglrx and got the same message, so I tried a -f with it, same thing. Read the man page, did a modprobe -nv and here's that output:

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko

Ran that command, same error.

--edit--

found this line in /var/log/messages:

Feb 17 12:56:54 mail kernel: [fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel
module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!

so I checked my list of moduals installed; and here they are:

[root@mail ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
radeon 120516 2
vmnet 27932 12
vmmon 106732 0
parport_pc 24705 1
lp 11565 0
parport 41737 2 parport_pc,lp
md5 4033 1
ipv6 232577 10
autofs4 24005 0
i2c_dev 10433 0
i2c_core 22081 1 i2c_dev
sunrpc 160421 1
ipt_REJECT 6465 1
ipt_state 1857 7
ip_conntrack 40693 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 2753 1
ip_tables 16193 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
nls_utf8 1985 2
ntfs 132624 2
dm_mod 54741 0
button 6481 0
battery 8517 0
ac 4805 0
sn9c102 53449 0
videodev 9664 1 sn9c102
ohci1394 35033 0
ieee1394 302869 1 ohci1394
ohci_hcd 22225 0
ehci_hcd 31557 0
snd_intel8x0 34829 0
snd_ac97_codec 64401 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_cmipci 35173 1
snd_pcm_oss 47609 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97993 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 9673 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 11201 1 snd_cmipci
snd_timer 29765 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 9413 1 snd_opl3_lib
gameport 4801 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_cmipci
snd_mpu401_uart 8769 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_cmipci
snd_rawmidi 26725 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8137 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 54053 13 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_ hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9889 1 snd
sis900 18629 0
floppy 58609 0
ext3 116809 6
jbd 74969 1 ext3









so uh, nevermind all that... figured it out. to install the ATI drivers, you need to go to init 3, rmmod radeon, then modprobe flgrx

cheers, hope this will help someone else :)

argh! stupid dual monitors not working.

ok, I've ran fglrxconfig a few times in init 3, and the tvout works perfectly, until a gui loads. I'm running xorg 6.8.1, with KDE (whatever version it is that comes with FC3). Whenever I run init 5, the tvout monitor turns black. the primary one runs fine, but thats it.

I don't really care if it's set up to clone, on big monitor, or whatever, as long as I can watch DVD's on my tv (computer is the only DVD player I have).

Any help is appreciated