On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 13:09, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 18.01.2004 schrieb Don Levey um 19:05: > > 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. > > > > 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. > > Alexander > Alexander, et al: This was exactly what fixed it. I removed the stock Mesa-libGL package and installed the ATI-supplied RPM. After running the configuration, all was well. While not quite as nice as the HDTV in the next room, it's much better than the generic VESA driver. Thanks again! -Don
