Please excuse me for my other topic. It was rude, I know, but I'm kinda upset that those drivers won't work. They cause GNOME3 not to boot and jump into fallback mode.

This is what my laptop looks like:

AMD Athlon x2 P360 CPU
AMD Radeon HD 6650M GPU
4GB DDR3 RAM
640GB HDD

It's make and model is Acer Aspire 5552G. I don't remember its full model number, but do note that there are a few different 5552G models and I couldn't find mine up for sale anywhere, strangely enough.

In a console, please run 'lspci' and show us the output. Can you also attach or pastebin your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file?

Adam

Sure thing!

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Whistler [AMD Radeon HD 6600M Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6000 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
08:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)


Regarding the xorg0.log file, I had to try different sites as most didn't allow texts over 500kb in size, but eventually I found one!

Link: http://paste.org/45773

Well you don't have a hybrid GPU, which is good.

However, you're talking about the official AMD drivers not working, but your Xorg log file shows you using the open source radeon driver (which does, indeed, appear to have some issue with your setup). Did you uninstall the proprietary driver? We need to see the log file from when you actually used the proprietary driver if we're going to help you get the proprietary driver working.

Adam

When I ran the prop driver, gnome 3 failed to start. If you want, though, I can install the amd prop drivers again and re-post the log file with the prop drivers installed?

Yeah, we'll have to see that log file, otherwise we're just guessing :-)

Adam

Got it. I installed the prop drivers, and as expected, Gnome 3 failed to load. Here is an updated paste of the log file you required.

http://paste.org/45778

Looks to me that the installation didn't go properly. How did you install the driver? Did it show/log any errors?

Adam

I did the following:

Went into my downloads directory and opened the terminal. Got root access. Chmodd 755 on the .run file and then sh'd it. All of this through the console. Then some gtk+ GUI popped up and I chose to install. I was told the installation was successful and a reboot was required. Didn't give me any errors.

Well I just tried on my F16 installation here, and it did build the kernel module. What's the output of these commands:

Shall I try these on the ati prop drivers? Because I uninstalled them.

Yes. The first two are so we can see if you have the kernel-devel package that matches the kernel you are currently running. The last one is to confirm that the open source radeon kernel module isn't loaded when you try to use fglrx.

Adam

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wouldn't it be easier to go to rpmfusion.org install it then, yum install kmod-fglrx

I see. I am only too happy to help.

uname -r

3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64

Hmm.. that sure is odd. I am almost certain it loaded some other kernel before.

rpm -qa | grep kernel-

kernel-3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64

dmesg | grep drm

Hmm.. something is definitely not right here. That command produced nothing. That seems like something that should load, doesn't load.

I think adamk75 is doing great on this for you but I wanted to chime in for a second. It also may be that after a number of attempts you might have to do a clean install of the OS and try again. Consider it if you get stuck.