Re: Error while installing ATI Radeon proprietory driver fglrx on FC2

From: Kam Leo (kam.leo_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/25/05

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    On 6/25/05, Clive at Rational <clive@rational-communications.com> 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.

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