On 6/28/05, akarl <fusionfive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > After going through some trouble I finally managed to install the ATI > driver from the Livna server on FC3 some months ago. I carefully > documented the required steps to make it work. When follow the same > procedure on FC4 it fails. > > The first thing I tried after having installed FC4 was to download and > install the proprietary drivers from the ATI website; > fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm and ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run and > (of course) it didn't work. Moreover the installer doesn't seem to have > an uninstall option, so I don't know how to uninstall it. (That the > installer puts a license agreement text file in the root directory(!) > `/' is one more indication of ATI's ignorance.) > > I have done: > > yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r) > > and added the the line > > Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" > > to `Section "Device"' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (my Asus motherboard with > nForce2 chip set requires it, I've heard). > > When I boot I get an error message about fglrx.ko not being found. What > package installs fglrx.ko and where is it supposed to be located? How do > I proceed from here? > > Thanks in advance, > August > Try downloading the driver from http://rpm.livna.org. You will need to match the kernel version and architecture to the proper file for downloading. Uninstall: As root Step 1) # rpm -qa | grep kernel-module Step 2) # rpm -e { insert result from Step 1 here. If Step 1 is empty no need for Step 2.}
