On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:59 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 17:50 -0700 schrieb Stanton Finley: > > I've been doing installation tests on a laptop with onboard ATI > > Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) video. I have found > > that when I install the latest driver > > (ati-driver-installer-8.20.8-i386.run) the graphics acceleration feature > > does not take and "fglrxinfo" defaults back to the Mesa drivers *except* > > when I do an "everything" install on FC4. When I install "everything" it > > works and I get the proper message > > > > display: :0.0 screen: 0 > > OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. > > OpenGL renderer string: RADEON XPRESS 200M Series SW TCL Generic > > OpenGL version string: 1.3.5519 (X4.3.0-8.20.8) > > > > > > when I do the "fglrxinfo" command. This happens even if I install kernel-devel and gcc. > > > > I'm thinking there must be some program(s) that I get with the "everything" install that makes it possible to install the ATI driver. If anyone knows what it is please let me know so I can just install that program rather than the "everything" install. > > Yeah there is something that needs to be installed -- but I can't > remember what it was. Yum will install it if you use the ati-fglrx > packages from livna; to use those on a clean up2date system just do > > # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release4.rpm > # yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r) > > You can also download the rpm from livna and and try to install it on a > clean system directly with rpm -- it will tell you what deps are missing > and probably are needed by the package from ati, too. > > HTH > > CU > thl > > -- > Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Got it! Acting on a hunch I added compat-libstdc++-33 to the mix. I remembered that there were problems installing programs such a RealPlayer and Adobe Reader without these libraries in an FC4 installation that was less than "everything". I have included revised instructions for installing the driver in the ATI OpenGL section at http://stanton-finley.net/HP_Pavilion_ZE2108WM.html. The command "fglrxinfo" now produces display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: RADEON XPRESS 200M Series SW TCL Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.5519 (X4.3.0-8.20.8) and high FPS rates are produced with the "glxgears" and "fgl_glxgears" commands. Stanton Finley http://stanton-finley.net/
