Am So, den 18.01.2004 schrieb Don Levey um 19:05: > I've checked the archives, and not found anything useful (just two hits > searching on "Radeon 9600 Pro"), so if this has been covered before I > apologise. > > I have the above-mentioned card, and am having a devil of a time getting > it to work properly. When selecting the driver that comes with FC1 for > Radeon 9600 Pro, my system locks up hard during the login process. > Normally I'm able to enter username/password, but it freezes before > getting the desktop. If I try to specifically select a desktop > environment (Gnome, KDE), I get a lockup in that dialog itself. > > As I had done a number of things immediately before this first happened, > I did not immediately realise that it was the video driver itself which > had done this. A fortunately-timed kudzu run somehow removed the Radeon > driver and reinstalled the generic VESA, at which point things worked > again. > > The relevant portions of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file follow: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "vesa" > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "VESA driver (generic)" > EndSection > > #Section "Device" > # Identifier "Videocard0" > # Driver "radeon" > # VendorName "Videocard vendor" > # BoardName "ATI Radeon 9600 Pro" > #EndSection > > As you can see, I commented out the offending portion but kept it in for > historical purposes. > > The ATI website has a driver for this board, one for each of the > following versions of XFree86: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3. It appears I am using > 4.3, so I downloaded the corresponding RPM. Attempting to install the > RPM, however, gives the following error: > rpm -Uvh fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of > fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0 conflicts with file from package > XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42 The ATI driver comes with his own GL libraries and so it conflicts with the already Mesa-libGL package from XFree. It's the same with the NVidia driver. Just remove the XFree86-Mesa-libGL. You need to rpm -e --nodeps. > I was not able to find anything on their website to address this issue. > I've heard somewhere that I shouldn't bother with the ATI-supplied > drivers in any event, so perhaps I'm not too heartbroken. However, > checking up on the above I don't understand the conflict; yum tells me > that my XFree86-Mesa-libGL is both installed and the latest version. > > Any thoughts on how to resolve this, and/or pointers to where I might > look? I'd hate to think that I need to boot into Windows to get better > video playback, etc, not to mention the other features this card > supports. > > Thanks for your time, > -Don Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
