I've been at this for 5 days now and I'm about to do something really drastic like go buy an NVIDIA Card....

It all started with a requirement that our lab run a 64 Bit statistical package (R) which means we had to have a 64 Bit OS. The most stable one seemed to be Fedora...so I installed it on a dual Xeon machine (3.2) with 64Bit EMT capabilities. I won't get into the issues with the 3Ware card, but in a nut shell, there is an IDE hard drive hanging outside of the machine that Fedora is installed on. If I want to boot into winders, unplug the IDE, plug in the SATA raid....another thread.


Video card is an ATI X800XT (Pci express), dual head, with 2 Princeton Graphics LCD19's. One connector is DVI with the VGA adapter, one is VGA.

(Note: Everything described here is the X86_64 version of whatever)


Anway, upon "reboot" after initial install...no video.

So I boot into init3, read some stuff on ATI website, install their 8.10.19 driver EXACTLY as the web site explains. Xorg version is 6.8.1

Run fglrxconfig, startx, no video.

Try AGPGART internal yes and no.

No video.

Try every combination of dual/single head.

No video

Try every combination of h and v synch.

No video

Try 9 different CRT monitors.

No video.

Upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10

No video.

Reinstall the driver

No video.

Remove the driver
Reboot
Reinstall the &*(@^*%&@!%^% driver

No video.

Tried option "ChipID" "4e48" and ChipID "0x4e48" to force Radeon 9800

No video

Made sure the kernel source tree was built:
$ rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.10-1.766.src.rpm
$ cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
$ rpmbuild -bp --target noarch kernel-2.6.spec
$ ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.10/linux-2.6.10 /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)


Reinstalled the *()&#Q*&*Q&*(@!**(#@ ati driver as per web site instructions

no *()@!&*(^@#^#& video.

Tried
Option "MonitorLayout" "NONE, CRT"
and
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT, NONE"
and
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT, CRT"

No video

tried
Option "no_dri" "yes"
and
Option "no_dri" "no"

no (*&*@W@#&* video

Tried various xorg.conf dled from here and other places

no video


Took out the g*****ed ati card, put in some 10 year old nvidia pci card:

Works like a champ. Problem is, we need the dual head setup AND the OPENGL AND the acceleration, we're running some GIS software that paints a bucketload of 3d renders on one screen, and kicks the data over to the stats package to model variograms and all that crap. So the PCI card isn't gonna work. Plus I want to know my 500$ vid card is useful.

So....any ideas on how to make video display on the screen using this card and this FC3 kernel? The mobo has no AGP slots so "Get an AGP card" won't work either. Funny thing is, the gui mode of the install worked like a champ. anaconda reconized the card great.

(I've got the same errors with the 8.8.25 driver)

ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...icles/lspci.out

ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...08-2.6.10.patch


ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...after.patch.out

ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...C3.2.6.10-1.766

ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...tall.of.8.10.19

ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...icles/xorg.conf
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Dual Xeon 3.2 GHZ
6 GB DDR2 RAM
Supermicro XDAE-6 Mobo
Sony DVD-RW
ATI X800T Dual Head
2 Princeton LCD19D FlatPanels
3Ware Escalade Raid, 6 WD 10K RPM 80 GB Drives

Try to start first with XOrg 'radeon' driver and after start with ATi 'fglrx' driver. It's worked for my ATi X800 XT PCI-E

Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry to sound dumb here....I'm no 'nix expert..this is my fist foray into the dark underworld of 'nix:

Can you provide more detail when you say use the Xorg radeon driver? Meaning...DL some RPM from xorg pertaining to Radeon and install it, if that doesn't work, remove it and try the ATI 8.10.19 driver?

and yes, I have posix shared memory turned on, as ATI says to check.

Thanks.

just edit your XOrg configuration file in section Device. Config file can be:
/etc/X11/XF86Config
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

i have 2 files with different Device section.
Section "Device"
BoardName "Radeon X800XT (R423) 5D57 (PCIE)"
BusID "4:0:0"
Driver "radeon"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection

This is generated with sax2

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Driver "fglrx"
# ### generic DRI settings ###
# === disable PnP Monitor ===
#Option "NoDDC"
# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
# === misc DRI settings ===
Option "mtrr" "off" # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr
# ### FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ###
# === Screen Management ===
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000000"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "off"
Option "HSync2" "unspecified"
Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
# === TV-out Management ===
Option "NoTV" "yes"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"
Option "TVColorAdj" "0"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"
# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
# === OpenGL Overlay ===
# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
# will be disabled automatically
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
# === Center Mode (Laptops only) ===
Option "CenterMode" "off"
# === Pseudo Color Visuals (8-bit visuals) ===
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
# === QBS Management ===
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
# === FSAA Management ===
Option "FSAAEnable" "no"
Option "FSAAScale" "1"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
# === Misc Options ===
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
# BusID "PCI:1:0:0" # no device found at config time
Screen 0
EndSection

This one generated by fglrxconfig
So at boot I run XOrg with radeon configuration and after I rotate config and start with fglrx driver. It works for me. Don't know if it works to you.