Problems with drivers for ATI Graphics card
 

Hi,

I have a Fedora 3 distribution running and have a 64 bit AMD processor with an ATI Radeon graphics card. I was trying to follow the steps below that someone had posted to speed up the graphics on my machine.

How to:

- download the rpm: fglrx64_6_8_0-8.16.20-1.x86_64.rpm
- open terminal and become root with: su -
- install the rpm with: rpm -ivh --force fglrx64_6_8_0-8.16.20-1.x86_64.rpm
- go to runlevel 3 with: init 3
- go to: /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
- change the following line in the file 'firegl_public.c' :
#include "asm/ioctl32.h"
into
#include "asm/ioctl.h"
- run the script: make.sh
- go up one dir-level and run script: make_install.sh
- load driver with: modprobe fglrx
- check if driver was loaded with: lsmod | grep fglrx
- unload driver with: modprobe -r fglrx
- go to /etc/lib/X11 and make copy of xorg.conf to xorg.conf.org
- go to /usr/X11R6/bin and run: fglrxconfig
- go to runlevel 5 to test the driver: init 5
- open terminal and run: /usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxinfo
- output should be something like:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X800 XL Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.5272 (X4.3.0-8.16.20)
- now run: /usr/X11R6/bin/fgl_glxgears

Now, when I run the script make_install.sh, I get the following error.

- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): No such device
failed.

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks!!!

Either your new module was not created or it resides somewhere other then the path "/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3/kernel/drivers/char/drm", make_install might have a different default path perhaps

Try searching for it from the / level ( find . -name fglrx\.ko -print )
see if it exists then move it to the above path.

By the way could you update your profile with your location.

Hi,

The file seems to be there in that location. I can find the same file in multiple other directories within the folder fglrx too! I have been trying to install this over and over again and I dont know if this is screwing things up.

There seems to be some warning in the previous command too. Here's what I did.

Step 1:

rpm -ivh --force ati-fglrx-8.18.6.1-0.lvn.1.3.x86_64.rpm
warning: ati-fglrx-8.18.6.1-0.lvn.1.3.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 648aaea1
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:ati-fglrx ########################################### [100%]

Step 2:

./make.sh
ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
initializing...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3/build SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3/build'
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
Warning: could not find /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/.libfglrx_ip.a.GCC3.cmd for /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/libfglrx_ip.a.GCC3
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3/build'
build succeeded with return value 0
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
==============================
You must change your working directory to /lib/modules/fglrx
and then call ./make_install.sh in order to install the built module.

Then, Step 3 was ./make_install.sh which says it can't find fglrx.ko!!

Please help.

Hi,

I really need help with this. I followed the instructions step by step. When I say modprobe fglrx, I get the following errors

FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

dmesg:

fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
fglrx: Unknown symbol firegl_pci_find_class
fglrx: Unknown symbol pci_find_class
fglrx: Unknown symbol firegl_pci_find_class
fglrx: Unknown symbol pci_find_class

I have looked up 100's of references on google and cant get it to work.

Please help.

welcome to the ATI club, where we use our hard earned money to purchase ATI's products and thus support ATI's practice of crapping all over their customers/us.

This is the ATI support page for 64 bit cards you may find some info here, best I can do

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...ge&folderID=27