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Vegan 09-08-2010 02:07 PM
ATI Video Card Drivers/ 3d Graphics issues
 
So i just recently installed the ATI catalyst driver from ati's website.
rebooted and i had black screens upon loading Fedora.

Uninstalled the catalyst drivers and am now back to normal.

Im using Gnome and fedora 12, when i try and activate "Desktop Effects" it states that i do not have 3d accelerated graphics installed.
My video card is a radeon 4650. and i am using dual monitors.

Is this a simple driver issue??? or something else?
If it is driver issues, what driver can i install that will work???

Thank you in advance

*EDIT*
there is now a new issue going on...
when i boot up fedora the bubble fills up then i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
i can ctrl+alt+f2 to get to a terminal and login....
if i try "startx" i get
"fatal service error: caught signal 11(segmentation fault).server aborting"

how do i fix this?
what should i check???

Vegan 09-08-2010 02:30 PM
Did a little bit more searching and found this

Code:
yum install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
are the mesa 3d drivers a good way to go???

adamk75 09-08-2010 07:27 PM
Do not mix the mesa-drivers-experimental package with the catalyst drivers from AMD. Let's check to see if your drivers are even installed properly. What's the output of 'glxinfo | grep -i render'?

Adam

Vegan 09-08-2010 11:43 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by adamk75 (Post 4091919)
Do not mix the mesa-drivers-experimental package with the catalyst drivers from AMD. Let's check to see if your drivers are even installed properly. What's the output of 'glxinfo | grep -i render'?

Adam
right now when i type that in i get "Error: unable to open display"

there is now a new issue going on...
when i boot up fedora the bubble fills up then i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
i can ctrl+alt+f2 to get to a terminal and login....
if i try "startx" i get
"fatal service error: caught signal 11(segmentation fault).server aborting"

how do i fix this?
what should i check???

jdkaye 09-09-2010 12:40 AM
I've used ATI Radeon for years. Some time ago the xserver-xorg radeon drivers started supporting 3D rendering via drm (direct rendering module not digital rights management ;)). You might give that a try but first you need to remove the ATI proprietary drivers.
Code:
lsmod |grep radeon
radeon                572811  4
ttm                    39986  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper        20065  1 radeon
drm                  142551  6 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4225  1 radeon
i2c_core              15712  6 radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,videodev,i2c_piix4,i2c_algo_bit
Code:
lspci |grep ati
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]
Code:
glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4

ciao,
jdk

Vegan 09-09-2010 12:56 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vegan (Post 4092080)
right now when i type that in i get "Error: unable to open display"

there is now a new issue going on...
when i boot up fedora the bubble fills up then i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
i can ctrl+alt+f2 to get to a terminal and login....
if i try "startx" i get
"fatal service error: caught signal 11(segmentation fault).server aborting"

how do i fix this?
what should i check???
^^^ anyone have any ideas on fixing this problem so i can go on to fixing my other problem lol :)

@jdkaye
are you saying i should delete all the modules that lsmod code produces?

jdkaye 09-09-2010 01:07 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vegan (Post 4092124)
@jdkaye
are you saying i should delete all the modules that lsmod code produces?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not all the modules, just the modules supplied by the proprietary drivers from ATI.If memory serves there is only one but things may have changed since then.
jdk

Vegan 09-09-2010 01:10 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by jdkaye (Post 4092131)
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not all the modules, just the modules supplied by the proprietary drivers from ATI.If memory serves there is only one but things may have changed since then.
jdk
okay i didn't think so lol
i already have the proprietary driver uninstalled using the ati unistall.sh.
so once i can get booted into gnome again i will have to try the DRM you mentioned.
Thank you.

jdkaye 09-09-2010 01:27 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vegan (Post 4092135)
okay i didn't think so lol
i already have the proprietary driver uninstalled using the ati unistall.sh.
so once i can get booted into gnome again i will have to try the DRM you mentioned.
Thank you.
Make sure you have xserver-xorg-video-radeon installed or whatever that's called in Fedora-speak. There's nothing to do specifically wrt drm. That's part & parcel of the driver so it should be done automatically once you've loaded the xorg radeon module. This may require some reconfiguring of xorg-xserver but I don't use Fedora so I can't tell you what to do on your system.
ciao,
jdk

Vegan 09-14-2010 01:55 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by adamk75 (Post 4091919)
Do not mix the mesa-drivers-experimental package with the catalyst drivers from AMD. Let's check to see if your drivers are even installed properly. What's the output of 'glxinfo | grep -i render'?

Adam
This is what i am showing.

Code:
[Vegan@*** ~]$ glxinfo | grep -i render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer

and

[Vegan@*** ~]$ glxinfo |grep -i "\(render\|opengl\)"
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
i have installed the mesa drivers but still have no 3d support...
where should i go from here?

Quote:
Originally Posted by jdkaye (Post 4092152)
Make sure you have xserver-xorg-video-radeon installed or whatever that's called in Fedora-speak. There's nothing to do specifically wrt drm. That's part & parcel of the driver so it should be done automatically once you've loaded the xorg radeon module. This may require some reconfiguring of xorg-xserver but I don't use Fedora so I can't tell you what to do on your system.
ciao,
jdk
i cant find these drivers for fedora anywhere...

adamk75 09-14-2010 02:07 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vegan (Post 4096793)

i have installed the mesa drivers but still have no 3d support...
where should i go from here?
In the first sentence you say you are using catalyst and now you say you are using mesa. Let's start by taking a look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

Adam

Vegan 09-14-2010 02:10 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by adamk75 (Post 4096804)
In the first sentence you say you are using catalyst and now you say you are using mesa. Let's start by taking a look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

Adam
In the first post i also stated that i uninstalled the catalyst drivers.

That is a big log file...
do you want me to post the whole thing or are you just looking for a section of it?

adamk75 09-14-2010 02:20 AM
The whole thing. Attach it to a post.

Adam

Vegan 09-14-2010 02:31 AM
1 Attachment(s)
Quote:
Originally Posted by adamk75 (Post 4096813)
The whole thing. Attach it to a post.

Adam
Here it is.

jdkaye 09-14-2010 03:33 AM
Do you have the drm module loaded? I notice I have the packages libdrm-radeon1 and libdrm2 installed. Do you have the Fedora equivalents for these?
ciao,
jdk


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