Fedora 14 and ATI redeon drives problem

GNOMESPJ · 11-27-2010, 04:57 PM

Hello folks,

I have recently upgraded to fedora 14. I have a ATI radeon graphics card which worked well with Catalyst version 10.10 X64 on fedora 13. But on fedora 14 it kept crashing and finally crashed the entire installation. I had to reinstall everything again and this time am playing safe. I would really appreciate of someone could pitch in some ideas regarding this issue. Will wait till I get an expert advice.

Thanks a lot guys,
Sagar

business_kid · 11-28-2010, 03:42 AM

As of Fedora 13 and higher, Fedora supported ati cards out of the box. If you had a catalyst driver on the install, be aware that it overwrites files. There is a set of instructions for removing them. I think you uninstall

catalyst
mesa
xf86-video-ati
OpenGL<anything>

reinstall xf86-video-ati, which will require mesa. Go for latest versions

GNOMESPJ · 12-05-2010, 04:30 AM

thanks for replying business_kid but I couldnt really understand what you meant by supporting out of the box.. do you mean that the drivers are already there in Fedora 14... cos I was not able to enable the graphic effects by default.. Also I havent yet installed any version of catalyst drivers as yet cos I read on many sites that the old 10.10 version which worked well on fedora 13 does not actually support 14 and may crash the system.. So am playing safe for now ...
Thanks ,

business_kid · 12-05-2010, 11:48 AM

Use the xf96-video-ati driver. In Xorg.conf simply put the word 'radeon' as driver; I had to put
radeon.modeset=1 as a boot parameter on the kernel line. Also, make /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf which says

options radeon modeset=1

Then try it

business_kid · 12-06-2010, 08:13 AM

I am a twit.
Use xf86-video-ati

GNOMESPJ · 12-06-2010, 11:11 PM

hello,

"I had to put radeon.modeset=1 as a boot parameter on the kernel line"

I got that typo ... just didnt get what do you mean by this ... Did all the rest steps ... Guess this one is a critical.. Can you please elaborate more on that step

Thanks a lot

business_kid · 12-08-2010, 03:17 AM

Some of it is Jargon. Suppoprting something 'out of the box' means it's builtin support - Fedora has all the correct drivers and versions to make an ATI card run and do dri.
I can't find 'all the rest steps' in my posts.. There's no other steps if you haven't installed a catalyst driver

siddharthkool · 12-29-2010, 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

Some of it is Jargon. Suppoprting something 'out of the box' means it's builtin support - Fedora has all the correct drivers and versions to make an ATI card run and do dri.
I can't find 'all the rest steps' in my posts.. There's no other steps if you haven't installed a catalyst driver

I am facing a similar problem after installing ATI Driver for my graphics card.
How can I uninstall catalyst ?
I don't see any s/w named catalyst installed. What exactly to uninstall ?

glxinfo |grep -i "\(render\|opengl\)"

Code:

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series 
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10362 Compatibility Profile Context
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.10
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color,

I must add that during the same install session, my kernel version was upgraded from 2.6.35.10-72.fc14.x86_64 to 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64
Though I can log in using the older kernel but the newer kernel results in a blank screen after boot up.

business_kid · 12-31-2010, 03:35 AM

Blame ATI for the naming. Catalyst is aka fglrx.

Remove it the way it was installed. If you ran an install script, run it with --uninstall; If it's a package, remove it that way. If you can't see any of it, try
ls -l /usr/lib(64)/libGL*

Normally libGL.so --> libGL.so.1 --> a mesa lib, e.g. libGL.so.1.2. With a proprietary driver installed, they point at a libGL.so with the proprietary version number (my old nvidia card had proprietary)
/oldslack/usr/lib/libGL.so.96.43.01

I can then use 'locate 96.43.01' to find my driver. I'm sure you can do something similar to find yours. Remove Reinstall mesa, and your other driver, as you will probably be missing some bits.

GNOMESPJ · 02-16-2011, 02:39 PM

Hello,

I was not able to sort it out till the end .. So searched some forums and found this thread
Link which shows step by step installation.
But my process again halted at the point where he asks to see if the kernel is built or not. So it seems that my /usr/src/ is empty. Now this is a bad indication according to the tread but he has not suggested any workaround. Can anyone help me in this . Am still working without graphics drivers here on fedora 14 64 bit ..

Thanks a ton,
Sagar

business_kid · 02-17-2011, 02:27 AM

In /usr/src you need the kernel built, because the nvidia installer needs to build it's own kernel module.

get the source install it to /usr/src. You can get the standard config from /boot or use your own
cp /boot/config_version-distro /usr/src/.config - the dot is important
make (-j some number for multiple processes)

Then install the nvidia driver. If it starts bellyaching about kernel magic, remove the installed one, install the kernel you built & run
make modules_install

and try again.