ATI on FC5 ?

RobNyc · 06-19-2006, 01:47 PM

when my kernel is loading i see where it says ati-fglrx and its says ok fine like all the other services

vinbob · 06-19-2006, 01:57 PM

Well, got it working at last although I'm not too sure on what I've done differently than last night.
I'll cover what I did do though.

The rpms (older versions) that I installed last night were still installed, initially I installed these with the following command as root from my desktop (where the rpms had been saved to);

Code:

rpm -ivh kmod-fglrx-8.24.8-3.2.6.16_1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.24.8-3.lvn5.i386.rpm

or the lazy way would be;

Code:

rpm -ivh kmod* xorg*

Then kick back to runlevel 3;

Code:

init 3

Note at this point xorg.conf was still set to use the 'radeon' driver, not 'fglrx', leave it that way.

I then removed the radeon module as root;

Code:

rmmod radeon

...then tried to switch to runlevel 5;

Code:

init 5

Xorg spazzed out because there was no radeon module, and stated that the X server was now disabled, so I rebooted.

Code:

reboot

With hindsight I could've just run 'system-config-display' as root to bring up the X config tool without rebooting.

The boot process was now text based, when Xorg was trying to start in runlevel 5 (screen flashing on & off) the X configuration tool started up, went through the prompts to configure X from scratch.

I picked my monitor type/resolution, picked the fglrx driver, and my default screen res of 1400x1050 with 'Millions of Colours' and confirmed.

X & GNOME then started in MESA Indirect mode.

Rebooted again and this time with full acceleration.

Oh yeah, and as I have a British keyboard I then had to change my keyboard type from 'us' to 'gb' in xorg.conf.
So now I have 3D acceleration again, back with kernel 2.6.16-1.2122 and fglrx version 8.24.08

What a pain in the arse that was!

Hope it works for you too.

If you're interested here's my working xorg.conf

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.

        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "synaptics"
        Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#       Option  "Xleds"         "1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#       Option  "XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#       Option  "XkbModel"      "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#       Option  "XkbModel"      "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
# or:
#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
#       Option  "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
#
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "LCD Panel 1400x1050"
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
        HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
        VertRefresh  59.0 - 75.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection