After struggling for several months since Fedora Core 4 to have my HP zv6000 show 3D acceleration in ATI Radeon Express 200M, I finally succeeded.
My setup:
Fedora Core 5 with latest update (kernel 2.6.18-1.2257)
ATI Xpress 200M with 128MB dedicated
AMD/ATI proprietary driver 6.8.2-8.32.5 for x86-32bit
Steps to make it work:
- boot the machine in console mode
- cd to where you downloaded ATI driver (the directory where it exists must be writable) and type
Code:
sh ati-driver-installer-*-run
- To make SELinux happy, type
Code:
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t \
/usr/lib/dri/*.so \
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/*.so \
/usr/lib/xorg/*.so.*
- Another thing to make SELinux happy is do
Code:
chmod u+x \
/lib/modules/KERNEL-VERSION/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko \
/usr/lib/dri/*.so \
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/*.so \
/usr/lib/xorg/*.so.*
- I found I still need the following
- To initialize X configuration to use ATI driver,
Code:
aticonfig --initial
- you can customize more using aticonfig (man aticonfig for more info), or even edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you know what you are doing
There must be rpm packages that makes this simpler, but I didn't want to wait for packagers to package them; I just want to download the driver from the vendor and install them right away.
Anyway, ever since AMD bought ATI, ATI's drivers seem to be better engineered than before.
I now have 3D acceleration in all my desktops and laptops except for an older laptop with ATI Mobility U1.