Hello reader(s)!

I am very excited to have switched over to Linux (Fedora Core 6) from WHINEdose XP. Everything went without a hitch, and the system is working fine. I even installed Flash 9, java and many other stuff myself

I have recently found out the video card driver that comes with Fedora Core 6 is limited in graphics acceleration and that I'd have to install the ATI driver to make it fully functional.

Therefore, I have downloaded ATI's Proprietary Linux Driver 8.28.8 installer. Installing process was simple, until the end where it told me it experienced problems and told me to read the logs from the following file:
/usr/share/fglrx/fglrx-install.log

I checked the file and it contained the following text/error:
==========================
initializing...
Error:
kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/build/include do not match current kernel.
they are versioned as ""
instead of "2.6.20-1.2925.fc6".
you might need to adjust your symlinks:
- /usr/include
- /usr/src/linux
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to compile kernel module - please consult readme.


To make it easier on any kind person trying to help me, I'll list my system details below:
uname -a
Linux basement.linux.mo 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 #1 SMP Sat Mar 10 19:15:16 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2800.250
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid xtpr
bogomips : 5602.15
clflush size : 64


rpm -qa | grep 'kernel' -i
kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6
kernel-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6
kernel-module-ATI-fglrx-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6-8.28.8-1.fc6
kernel-devel-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6
kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6
kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6



If you understand what I am going through and/or are able to help/guide me, I'll forever be grateful if you could! I hope this post is as detailed as needed, and if you'd like further information... please don't hesitate to ask. All input is important to me and will greatly be appreciated!

Cheers!

don't bother, just use the yum repo at http://rpm.livna.org and it'll do it for you seamlessly

Thanks for your kind and speedy response!

I have actually just found out about and tried the livna RPM, but it gave me problems.

I first installed it with with the following command:
yum -y --enablerepo livna install kmod-fglrx

After installing the above package, I restarted the computer and X couldn't start. What I did then was check the logs using tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log which contained the following text/error:
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.34.8
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: LGDr8.34g1
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Feb 20 2007 11:49:19
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Information: autobuild-rel-r6-8.34.1.1.2.3-driver-lnx-x86-x86_64-327152
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found


I have just called a linux buddy of mine, he told me I might need the SMP version of that package due to my SMP kernel. So I did the following:
yum -y --enablerepo livna install kmod-fglrx-smp

Which gave me the following error:
No Match for argument: kmod-fglrx-smp


I hope to find a solution and I have a feeling we're nearing it, could it be the SMP issue?

Thanks so much for your help! Please don't give up on me

Can someone please help

you certainly won't need the smp version if you don't have a multi core cpu. definitely not.

but have you re run the system-config-display tool to correctly configure X?

Well what that does is just reset the driver to the default that comes with Fedora Core 6 stock right?

And I think I do need the SMP version, because that's the kernel that's installed. Plus my CPU is Intel Pentium 4 Hyper Thread. Please forgive me if I sound stupid there, perhaps I'm wrong?

Thanks, I hope you take me through this horrific problem that took me all day and yet without solution

Cheers

ok, well maybe you do need SMP... i'm used to SMP being for big scary computers, not all this intel core duo stuff. old before my time. either way yum will install the module to match the running kernel, so you don't need to pick SMP at this stage.

the tool won't reset to a default (i don't think) you can pick the driver from the list presented if it's not there for you. by default the tool will (i think) use an existing xorg.conf file, but you can specify a command line option to totally start from scratch, like it does during the install. check "system-config-display --help" to see if that's right.

Thanks for the response Acid, nope system-config-display is just repeating the problem

What would you do next?

Anybody ?