Ati Radeon 9800XT and Fedora Core 2

Belerefontis · 06-02-2004, 05:02 AM

Did anyone manage to run this graphic card under Fedora Core 2 ?I 've read somewhere in the forum that we should first apply a patch in the kernel before trying to install the latest Ati Driver (3.9.0.0.) in Fedora Core 2.If anyone knows anything,it would be really of great help.Thank you in advance.

ghow961 · 06-02-2004, 06:24 AM

The card runs fine in FC2...

Download the fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6 driver from ati, then get these patches
http://rambo.its.tudelft.nl/~ewald/p...6-fedora.patch
http://www.kaseorg.com/fglrx-3.7.6-regparm.patch

As root, install ati driver, eg

rpm -i --force fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm

cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/
patch -p1 -i /download/fglrx-3.7.6-fedora.patch
patch -p1 -i /download/fglrx-3.7.6-regparm.patch
chmod 777 make.sh
./make.sh
cd ..
chmod 777 make_install.sh
./make_install.sh

The xorg.conf entry for the card can be copied from an old working XF86Config-4

Belerefontis · 06-02-2004, 09:29 AM

Thank you very much for your immediate reply.I am going to try it out as soon as possible

Belerefontis · 06-02-2004, 09:35 AM

http://rambo.its.tudelft.nl seems to have released a fglrx-3.9.0-fc2.patch for the latest driver release of ati which is at the 3.9.0.0.versio.Should i use the old one you are mentioning or in case i am going to use the new one patch,should i have trouble with the second one patch which is referring to version 3.7.6.0 of the ati driver ? Thank you.

Quote:

http://rambo.its.tudelft.nl/~ewald/p...6-fedora.patch
http://www.kaseorg.com/fglrx-3.7.6-regparm.patch

As root, install ati driver, eg

rpm -i --force fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm

cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/
patch -p1 -i /download/fglrx-3.7.6-fedora.patch
patch -p1 -i /download/fglrx-3.7.6-regparm.patch
chmod 777 make.sh
./make.sh
cd ..
chmod 777 make_install.sh
./make_install.sh

moax_cp · 06-02-2004, 12:09 PM

I would suggest using the new one unless you have reason to use the old one.