ATI drivers
 

I'm trying to install a driver into my fedora 4 system and I am having no luck at all (ATI All-In-Wonder 9600). When I try to use the auto install driver (ati-driver-installer-8.20.8-i386.run) by typing in ./ati-driver-installer-8.20.8-i386.run I get an error message saying permission is denied even though I'm using my root login in the terminal. So then I tried using the fglrx_6_8_0-8.20.8-1.i386.rpm driver for Xorg 6.8 (I have 6.8) using yum install, but when I tried that I got an error saying Package fglrx_6_8_0-8.20.8-1.i386.rpm is not signed. Finally I tried installing the same package with rpm -i and I got an error that said file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx_6_8_0-8.20.8-1 conflicts with file from package xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2

I'm completely out of ideas, but I'm sick of having to set my font at 16 (for mozilla, 12 for Konqueror) due to the fact that my fonts are blury.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

to make the ati driver executable then run it:

then do what you tried before... you'll have to be sure kde or gnome isn't running, i think you can hit ctrl-alt-backspace to kill it

Thank you, that worked, still blury, but I gained 200 pixels in the process. However, I'm still 200 short of what I get with XP (1440 x 900) but at least it's a start.

Open up the Xorg configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Inside you'll see something like this
Set the Modes line manually to the possible desktop resolutions you would like to be able to choose from in gnome/kde. The first mode you list will be the one used by default so long as it is an acceptable mode for your screen.

May I ask what kernel version you're running?

I'm trying to get this same driver working on 2.6.15 (with a different card) but I end up with unresolved symbols at compile time and the module will not insert.

I'm just wondering as a reference.

2.6.14-1.1656_FC4smp is the Kernel that I am using.

I'll give it a try, thanks :)

I'm so much happier now. In fact, I can even try the GNOME's setting again because everything is the right size and nothing is blury anymore. Thank you everyone who helped me with this. This might have been the end for me as a linux user as I was getting real tired of having a blury screen.

How nice! I suspect it'll now soon be the end for you as a windows user.

I see you're using gnome, but just for fun you might want to try doing some web browsing with konquerer from the kde suite.

Good Luck

I would like to becuase I really like Konquor (when I'm in KDE), but I can't get it to be my default browser (when in KDE). I've gone to kcontrol and set the browser component to Konquor, yet when I type htmlview I still get mozilla :( Any guesses?

Feroda 4, KDE 3.5

Better to use this, as it only change what you need. That is to add x (execute) rights to your file. And you should NEVER, EVER change to 777, becouse it give everyone ALL rights to that file. That is, it is more or less like MS Windows, and that we don't want, right?
This gives every one x right. You might only give that to the owner, so do this instead
For more information, please use the man command.