Fedora Core 6 and ATI hardware acceleration

easuter · 12-15-2006, 02:05 PM

Hi,

I've installed Fedorra core 6 today, and have everything working, except for video acceleration.
I downloaded kmod-fglrx and its dependencies for the stock kernel (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6), edited my xorg file and changed "radeon" to fglrx:

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

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

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

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes     "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

the module is in /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/extra/fglrx/fglrx.ko

Anyway, after i reboot, the kernel boots, and when it tried to start the part when the loading bar appears, the screen just goes blank.
And its not just my monitor thats blank, the monitor power light starts blinking, so its not even receving a video signal?
The starnge thing is that it is probably working properly, because i can see the hdd led blinking and my router connection light turning on, so i'm just not getting any video.

Any help is much appreciated

b0uncer · 12-15-2006, 02:22 PM

Yeah you guessed right, everything else is probably working but the video driver; you can/should try and alter the configuration values and see if it helps, perhaps use "nosplash" boot option --> disable the graphical bootup screen, to see what goes wrong and try to fix that then. Or it could be that the driver just doesn't work for your card or something..ATI's drivers aren't the easiest to get working properly

easuter · 12-15-2006, 03:10 PM

Thanks, i'll give that a try

Quote:

ATI's drivers aren't the easiest to get working properly

yeah...I just feel like burning my ati card and then pissing on it.

easuter · 12-15-2006, 03:15 PM

Another thing, after having installed the fglrx package, glxgears no longer works:

Code:

$ glxgears
glxgears: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

i'm updating the mesa libGL libraries...maybe that has something to do with it....

zefox · 12-15-2006, 04:34 PM

Is xorg version > 7.1?
In this case, there is no ATI support (yet) ...

Pascal

easuter · 12-15-2006, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zefox

Is xorg version > 7.1?
In this case, there is no ATI support (yet) ...

Pascal

not sure, how do i check?

easuter · 12-15-2006, 06:36 PM

Ok, an update:

I rebooted my computer again with the fglrx module in xorg.conf; waited for the hard-drive to go silent, then did a cold reset.
I dug out my GParted LiveCD and rescued the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
With some help provided by another forum to filter the file search, it looks like a BusID problem:

doing cat Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx | grep EE i got this:

Code:

$ cat Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx | grep EE
(EE) fglrx(0): Chipset 0x5960 is not recognized
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitConfig failed
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed

and cat Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx | grep WW returns this:

Code:

$ cat Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx | grep WW
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

Now, my lspci indicated that my card has two bus id's, one for each head (or at least I think its that way, but I may just be pulling information out of my ass):

Code:

$ /sbin/lspci | grep ATI
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)

So it looks like X is trying to start on the secondary head.
If this is in fact the problem, how do I change xorg.conf to force X to use the primary vga output bus id?

easuter · 12-20-2006, 02:37 AM

I did finaly get it working after a lot of effort, so I'm just posting back with the sollution for anyone else who might need help:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...ivers-fc6.html