I have Fedora Core 3 installed on a computer with GeCube ATI Radeon X600Pro (256MB) graphics card. The default drivers provided by Fedora didn't work at all -- computer froze whenever X started -- I had to install FC3 in text mode and then fix it in console. By "froze" I mean the screen froze, mouse and keyboard didn't do anything (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, switching to ttys did nothing) and I could only restart the computer with the Reset button.
So I installed ATI Proprietary Linux Drivers, which installed successfully including the kernel module and seemed to work OK (X and Gnome started successfully, I can work normally and play 2D games), but everytime I launch a 3D application/game such as TuxRacer, WarCraft III emulated via Wine, Machine Ball, etc., it freezes after aproximately 5 minutes of playing (freezes in the same way that it had with the default driver).
This is the dmesg output of graphic driver initialization:
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fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 430 MBytes.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.18.8 [Oct 25 2005] on minor 0
[fglrx] free PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] max PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] free LFB = 122613760
[fglrx] max LFB = 122613760
[fglrx] free Inv = 134217728
[fglrx] max Inv = 134217728
[fglrx] total Inv = 134217728
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total PCIe = 16384
This is the appropriate part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Code:
Section "Device"
# ### generic DRI settings ###
# === disable PnP Monitor ===
#Option "NoDDC"
# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
# ### FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ###
# === Screen Management ===
# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
# will be disabled automatically
# vendor=1002, device=5b62
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Driver "fglrx"
BoardName "Unknown video card"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "mtrr" "off"
Option "DesktopSetup" "(null)"
Option "HSync2" "unspecified"
Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
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"
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Does anyone please know, what could be the cause or how to fix it? Would buying a nVidia card instead of this ATI help?
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