Don Levey wrote:
fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:Understood - It's unfortunate that ATI doesn't provide nearly the level of support that Nvidia does to *nix users. here's a great link for a kernel compile, it's for redhat 8,9 but you should be able to adapt it to FC1 without much trouble. http://linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91503
Just struck me - of course you have the mesa drivers loaded, accordingdisplay: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
-Don
There's a major problem - those mesa drivers need to go away. Look over the thread at linuxquestions.org that I posted before and see if there are any of those steps you did not complete. The full install step is not necessary, just something I did out of frustration. (http://linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116223).
to you XFreeconfig, the radeon drivers are commented out, i assume to
relieve the lockup issue you were having. Earlier I saw you had tried
to install the fire gl drivers and got the error about a conflict with
mesa, try to install the firegl drivers rpm with the --force option,
then run the fglrxconfig to create a new XFreeconfig file for you (or
do it manually)...that should help you get some meaningful
information in your XFree Error log if there is in fact still a
problem. For me with the 9700 pro (only 2D support provided by
fedora) things didn't really start to click until after a kernel
recompile with agpart and radeon as loadable modules. Unfortunately
I have to work from memory here as the box I did this on was for a
friend and I don't have ready access to it.
I'm assuming that the "you" in your post is me, as I was having lockup problems.
I don't recall trying to install firegl drivers; the XF86Config file I posted at the start has been superceded. The file itself was either deleted or modified and saved as XF86Config-4. I removed (rpm -e) the Mesa drivers; what's there now was installed by the ATI rpm itself.
Considering the number of things I needed to do to get things working, I'd reluctant to recompile the kernel. Perhaps I'll try it anyway, both the current stock version with the modules and a 2.6.1 version. But it took me so long to get sound on this machine (whine)...
-Don
Best of luck, I nearly pulled my hair out, but in the end the results were well worth it.
Thomas
