Markku Kolkka wrote:
Markku Kolkka kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 21.
elokuuta 2005 14:28):
A.J. Bonnema kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 21.
elokuuta 2005 05:35):
Thank you for the tip. I was able to yum install
ati-fglrx.x86_64 from livna.
That's the old driver version, 8.14.13. The new 8.16.20
drivers aren't yet available from livna.
Sorry, I was posting based on stale cahced info, the 8.16.20 are
now in the repo. X800 series cards are supported according to
the ATI release notes, so the problem is elsewhere. Did you
install the kernel-module-fglrx-`uname -r` package?
Ahh yes, that was the problem: I should have recounted it her. I found
out by accident, because a bootup screen stalled, so that I could
actually *read* the messages -- and this was one of them. I have been
using Torcs and FreedroidRPG for while now and it works extremely well.
Thanks for your hint.
What I wondered about though is some messages during bootup don't appear
in any log. This particular message scrolled by so fast, that usually I
could not read it. Only one time, for some reason it stalled, so I read
the message and I immediately went looking for the kernel-module, I
found it, installed it, reboot and it worked! That was real nice!
Ok, so the question is:
1. Why don't all messages during bootup appear in some log?
I have searched the logs, like dmesg, message.log and XOrg.0.log,
but nothing was there. The only file I could not search, because it was
too big was lastlog.
Does anyone know how to search a file for which grep reports a
memory error?
2. Why are the two driver-packages ati-fglrx and kernel-module-fglrx not
dependent on each other?
I am probably not the first one to be ignorent of this connection.
Guus - I know, so much questions, so little time......
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A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
