On Fri March 23 2007, Dave Perry wrote: > I had the X600 working well with FC5 and the livna fglrx but after > installing FC6, had no direct rendering with either the livna or ATI > proprietary drivers. Never even got the ATI prorietary drives > installed. The usually reliable "Unofficial Fedora FAQ" instructions for > ATI drivers from livna did not work with the 8.34.8 fglrx. There was > no > > ati-fglrx-config-display after > > yum install kmod-fglrx. > > A similar link > http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/ati-yum-livna/ > "Configuring an ATI card using YUM and the LIVNA Repository" > helped me solve the problem. I needed to "point" /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 > to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1 > > To do this, as root delete the existing soft link and create the right > link: > %cd /usr/lib > %rm libGL.so.1 (it is a soft link) > %ln -s /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1 libGL.so.1 > > I also had to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Between the Unofficial FAQ and > the other link, you should be able to see what needs to be changed or > added. If you cannot get direct rendering then, post a request for my > xorg.conf. > > Hope this keeps others from the week of pain I just had. Dave: I would appreciate if you could post the video sections of your xorg.conf I'm dealing with a laptop with RV350 Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 I've tried both livna's and freshrpms' drivers - I've uninstalled and reinstalled a dozen times in different patterns; I've used all the commands to re-write xorg.conf - I keep getting the [Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display "0:0".] error when I check for direct rendering -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
