On 6/25/05, Clive at Rational <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This posting is a new perspective on > > Re: FC3 continually hanging or crashing machine. . OK > when X not running. OK in FC2 > > I have had problems (machine freezing / locking up) > running FC3 (kernel 2.6.11) on a noname laptop with an > ATI Radeon Mobility M9 card. Lockup only happened > while X was running - no problems in command-line > mode. No problems running command line or X in FC2 > (kernel 2.6.10). > > Earlier suggestions and other browsing leaves me at > the point the freeze maybe due to the FC3 ATI video > driver (I have seen this freeze problem on an IBM T21 > in the past - and the problem was the video driver) > > I downloaded and installed the latest ATI Radeon > drivers from the ATI Website > > No improvement in FC3. > > I have removed the Mesa / OPenGL package provided for > Fedora and replaced with the ATI provided package and > I get the problem listed at end "Invalid module > format". > > 1. Is the "Invalid module format" problem at the end > of this posting serious? > > glxgears runs OK under FC2 / X with this ATI fglrx > package installed. > > 2. What has changed between FC2 and FC3 that could be > the source of this ATI video problem (assuming it IS a > video problem). Basic video support (I don't know > about testing 3D) seemed fine in FC2. So the problem I > am experiencing in FC3 must be fixable ... No ?? > > 3. Another thing to throw in - but probably unrelated > - and less important to me > > The ATI package installs a utility > (/usr/X11R6/bin/fireglcontrolpanel) on the Control > panel to manage some of the ATI card parameters. When > this is run directly on the linux machine, a dialog > opens up that shows three tabs: > > 3.1 Information, Dual-Screen, (Gamma Adjustment) > > When I select the same "ATI Control" icon from a VNC > session, the window displays the eror rmessage > > "Driver does not support X11 FireGL extensions. Panel > components will display only partially" > > Then a window appears with two tabs > > 3.2 An information screen with different (limited) > info from Information in 3.1 above, and , TV Out > control. > > Weird !! > > Thanks > > Clive > > ************************************** > > [root@Linux28GHz ~]# apt-get install > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 66 not > upgraded. > Need to get 377kB of archives. > After unpacking 413kB of additional disk space will be > used. > Get:1 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL 6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at [377kB] > Fetched 377kB in 6s (57.9kB/s) > Committing changes... > Preparing... > ########################################### [100%] > 1:xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL > ########################################### [100%] > Done. > > [root@Linux28GHz ~]# cd /downloads/Fedora3/ATI\ Linux\ > driver/ > [root@Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# ls > ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run > fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm > [root@Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -ivh --test > fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm > Preparing... > ########################################### [100%] > file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install > of fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1 conflicts with file from > package xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at > > [root@Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -ev --test > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at > [root@Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -e > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at > [root@Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# ls > ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run > fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm > [root@Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -ivh --test > fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm > Preparing... > ########################################### [100%] > [root@Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -ivh > fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm Preparing... > ########################################### [100%] > 1:fglrx_6_8_0 > ########################################### [100%] > FATAL: Error inserting fglrx > (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.771_FC2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): > Invalid module format > [root@Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# > > Try the kernel-module-fglrx rpm from http://rpm.livna.org. You will have to find one that matches your kernel.
