Well I have tried repeatedly to get the livna ATI rpms working on Fedora 5 64bit with my Radeon Xpress 200M card. It hasn't happened. (I install, reboot, then when the login manager is supposed to show up, the screen turns black and stays that way. I did notice something about a bug on the rpm.livna.org website about ATI and x86_64 systems: would this have anything to do with the problems I've encountered?)

So I decided to have a go and install the latest rpm from the ATI website. Seeing as my Fedora install is already half borked for a couple of totally unrelated reasons, I reckoned I might as well try it anyway...

It however, returned this:
a dependenancy I cannot find *anywhere* on the internet for fedora.

I _then_ tried the installer script, which suprisingly, actually installed ok. However, when I tried to run aticonfig, I got this error:

Now libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 *is* in /usr/lib64/fglrx, so I don't know why it can't find it. I tried making soft links here there and everywhere, but to no avail.

Trying to open the ATI control panel gave me this error:

...And generally, the 3D acceleration just wasn't working with the proprietary driver.


Can anyone help me? Thank you.

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I had a problem installing my NVIDIA drivers with similar issues as you are referring to. My problem was SELinux. SELinux is really complicated and hard to understand what it blocks and doesn't. First boot into X windows with your default video driver. Then go to the "System" menu at the top left of the screen. Then go to Administration menu and Security Level and Firewall
it will demand your root password so enter it.

You should see a window open to the Firewall Options. Change to the tab that says "SELinux"
and change "SELinux Setting" to "disabled" in the pull-down box. Then retry your driver installation again and see if it works. If that doesn't work then you'll need more expert help than I can provide.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I already have SELinux turned off... (In order to get vmware working).

I managed to fix the libexpat problem with a suse rpm, but I'd still like to be able to get aticonfig working: I don't think I'll be able to get 3D acceleration working until I can manage that.

To recap:
I have made the following soft links using ln -s, from the actual libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 library in /usr/lib64/fglrx to the following directories, but nothing is working:
/usr/lib/fglrx ,
/usr/X11R6/lib ,
/usr/X11R6/lib64 ,
/usr/lib/ati-fglrx


Where is aticonfig expecting to find libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 if not in one of the few directories above???

I install my ati display card in fc5(xorg7) 32 bit with following method, don't know is helping you or not.
1.download ati driver from ati official website.
2.cheat linux that the x version=6.9

#export X_VERSION=x690; sh ati-driver-installer-8.24.8-x86.run
restart X (or reboot)

I thought the latest ATI driver was for xorg 7.0 ...?

The driver seems to be working ok (I think) for 2D acceleration though... at least when I went to the "Display" control it showed it was using the ATI driver.

I saw this link:http://ensode.net/ati_radeon_xpress_200m_linux.html
(the same video card as mine)

...and this guy suggested that:
...which I found strange, as I thought loads of people have 3D acceleration working fine. However, I am unsure how recent this article is.

I tried the man's suggestion and allocated some of my RAM to the video card, but this only made things a *lot*, *lot* worse, so I changed things back as son as possible.


So nobody knows where aticonfig is trying to find libfglrx_pp.so.1.0?

Guy,
for your information my 3D working well, if your ati work probably, the command

#fglrxinfo
will return you something like this

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5755 (8.24.8)

And, currently I play warcraft3, ppracer, bzflag and etc well, just using the command:-
#export X_VERSION=x690; sh ati-driver-installer-8.24.8-x86.run

Regards,
Ks

Nah, that made absolutely no difference. I really don't think it has much to do with the libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 problem I'm describing anyway, unfortunately.

I now have this new error too, when I tried to run fglrx_xgamma, on a similar theme to the previous one:
I then realised I'd forgotten to change the display driver from the opensource one to the ATI one I'd downloaded. Restarting my laptop then resulted in a black screen (instead of the login screen) as happpened with the livna rpms.

So... still no 3D support. No support whatsoever with the ATI driver.

I had all the same problems trying to get the ATI drivers installed and running on a AMD64 FC5. After trying a number of different things finally found something that worked, and it turned out to be quite simple.

After running the ATI installer, create the following symbolic links:

ln -s /usr/lib64/fglrx/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0
ln -s /usr/lib64/fglrx/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1

then run

ldconfig -v

That's it. After doing this aticonfig, ati control panel and fglrx_xgamma ran fine and after a reboot saw a major difference with the 2D desktop. glxinfo shows the ATI drivers loaded and now glxgears runs at ~10400 FPS up from ~3500 FPS without the ATI drivers (on an X1900XTX).

Once last thing, read somewhere that the base kernel installed off the FC5 disk is not compatible with the ATI drivers and that yoi should update the kernel with yum or build a custom kernel. Not sure how true this is because I updated my kernel before I started trying to get thet ATI drivers working.

Anywho, hope this helps.

Yes... I had already updated my kernel.

I appreciate the advice: aticonfig is now working. (What does "ldconfig" do by the way?)

Although this is fixed, it seems that the driver itself isn't working, as I expected. Still get a black screen on reboot. I was hoping that initiating aticonfig might have fixed the problem, but it seems that this issue is, as I thought, an error in the driver itself.

The ATI control panel still doesn't work though: did you get this error?

Thanks.

ldconfig configures and updates the dynamic linker so it knows which libraries to point programs to.

Could you please help me, im having the exact same problem you were... i tried doing the thing the guys suggested but

ldconfig -v

DID NOT WORK... its said,

ldconfig -v
bash: ldconfig: command not found

Why is it doing that? then when i try to run aticonfig it still wants that dumb libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 file... what the heck?

if you could help i'd appreciate it, im used to MEPIS and im not sure how to browse in FC5 in (superuser mode) anyhow if you can help it would be appreciated...

If you're not graphically logged in as super user on Fedora, then some commands (e.g. "ldconfig") are hidden from normal users, even when you "su" into super user in a terminal/konsole window.
(You can still use these commands as normal user if you "su" into root in a terminal/konsole window, you just have to know where they are located. Much easier just to be graphically logged in as root for this kind of thing)


So graphically log out as normal user, and then graphically log back in as root. Running "ldconfig" in a terminal / konsole window should now work fine.