ati mobility radeon 9700 on fedora 6, problems
 

Hi,
Migrating from fedora 5 to 6 I have trouble getting my otherwise functioning graphics card rendering to work.
I installed the driver doing the following found at http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon:
yum install kmod-fglrx
# Shut down X:
init 3
# Log in as root.
# Enable the driver:
ati-fglrx-config-display enable
# Restart X:
init 5


The command ati-fglrx-config-display was not available. I ran aticonfig --initial in stread (not sure if that was wise or not).

fgl_glxgears says:
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 30
Current serial number in output stream: 30

So something is not working - any clues as to what to do from here?
The livna repo used to work for me using fedora 5 by the way.


Thanks in advance

Soren

Yes, remove the livna stuff and install the dkms from Fedora core Extras along with the ati-x11-dev from freshrpms;

As root type;

yum install dkms ati-x11-drv

Then reboot the system and watch the magic happen. When the kernel is updated the ati-x11-drv automatically rebuilds itself for the new kernel, no more having to go get new packages from livna anymore.

Thanks Lenard,
I will try that ASAP - right now I ran into startup problems as I am on a differnet network and ldap is giving me trouble botting.

Thanks again

Soren

Hi again,
Finally got ldap disabled. I did a yum remove kmod-fglrx

and then:
rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp....fc.noarch.rpm

But I get the message:
Retrieving http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp....fc.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo from install of freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc conflicts with file from package yum-fedorafaq-6-2007.02.03


Can I somehow disable that earlier package?

Cheers
Soren

You do not need to install the freshrpms-release package, the repo file is part of the yum-fedorafaq package. So all you need to do is something like;

yum install dkms ati-x11-drv --disablerepo=linva

Thanks again,,
I got the repo disabled and after rebooting some ATI processes appear on startup. However the problem seems to be persisting. My xorg.conf looks unchanged from before (below).
I did install the propietary ATI driver, but I was (naively) hoping that would not be a problem when installing from the freshrpms.
Thanks heaps for the help so far - should I re-install or can it be salvaged?

Regards
Soren




# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "dk"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Got the ATI propietary driver removed and re-installed the dkms and ati developer package.
glxinfo now says rendering is off and when running a program using openGL the machine chrashed.
I will do a clean install monday and see if that fixes it. Will get NVIDIA next time..


Cheers
Soren

Sample xorg.conf file, use only as a guide and make changes where needed to match your hardware;

Thanks again!,
xorg.cong was modified and screen appears in correct resolution but still no direct rendering. /var/logs/xorg.0.log says (excerpt):
(II) fglrx(0): driver needs X.org 7.1.x.y with x.y >= 0.0
(II) fglrx(0): detected X.org 7.1.1.0
(EE) fglrx(0): GART is not initialized, disabling DRI
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xf0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000
(==) fglrx(0): Write-combining range (0xf0000000,0x8000000)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1920,8191)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1920,1200) (front color buffer - assumption)
(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1920 x 6991
(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) Loading extension FGLRXEXTENSION


Not sure what this indicates.

Any help greatly apreciated!


Soren

xorg.conf is:
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "dk"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1920x1200" 239.63 1920 2064 2272 2624 1200 1201 1204 1251
Modeline "1600x1200" 175.50 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
# HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
HorizSync 31-82
VertRefresh 56-76
# VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1
Option "dpms"
# UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection

#Section "Device"
# Identifier "Videocard0"
# Driver "radeon"
# Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
#EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Centermode" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "False"
EndSection

Looks like you need to rebuild the kernel and add the missing DRI support as per the suggestion;
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

Thanks for your help Lenard - rebuilding the kernel sounded daunting but somehow it worked when I booted today!
Not sure what I changed, but now it is working fine.

Thanks for the help!

Soren