How to make PCI-E ATI Card work in FC3 2.6.10?
tom_colson_at_ncsu.edu
Date: 02/20/05
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Date: 19 Feb 2005 15:51:28 -0800
How to make PCI-E ATI Card work in FC3 2.6.10?
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I've been at this for 5 days now and I'm about to do something really
drastic like go buy an NVIDIA Card....
It all started with a requirement that our lab run a 64 Bit statistical
package (R) which means we had to have a 64 Bit OS. The most stable one
seemed to be Fedora...so I installed it on a dual Xeon machine (3.2)
with 64Bit EMT capabilities. I won't get into the issues with the 3Ware
card, but in a nut shell, there is an IDE hard drive hanging outside of
the machine that Fedora is installed on. If I want to boot into
winders, unplug the IDE, plug in the SATA raid....another thread.
Video card is an ATI X800XT (Pci express), dual head, with 2 Princeton
Graphics LCD19's. One connector is DVI with the VGA adapter, one is
VGA.
(Note: Everything described here is the X86_64 version of whatever)
Anway, upon "reboot" after initial install...no video.
So I boot into init3, read some stuff on ATI website, install their
8.10.19 driver EXACTLY as the web site explains. Xorg version is 6.8.1
Run fglrxconfig, startx, no video.
Try AGPGART internal yes and no.
No video.
Try every combination of dual/single head.
No video
Try every combination of h and v synch.
No video
Try 9 different CRT monitors.
No video.
Upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10
No video.
Reinstall the driver
No video.
Remove the driver
Reboot
Reinstall the &*(@^*%&@!%^% driver
No video.
Tried option "ChipID" "4e48" and ChipID "0x4e48" to force Radeon 9800
No video
Made sure the kernel source tree was built:
$ rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.10-1.766.src.rpm
$ cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
$ rpmbuild -bp --target noarch kernel-2.6.spec
$ ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.10/linux-2.6.10
/usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)
Reinstalled the *()&#Q*&*Q&*(@!**(#@ ati driver as per web site
instructions
no *()@!&*(^@#^#& video.
Tried
Option "MonitorLayout" "NONE, CRT"
and
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT, NONE"
and
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT, CRT"
No video
tried
Option "no_dri" "yes"
and
Option "no_dri" "no"
no (*&*@W@#&* video
Tried various xorg.conf dled from here and other places
no video
Took out the g*****ed ati card, put in some 10 year old nvidia pci
card:
Works like a champ. Problem is, we need the dual head setup AND the
OPENGL AND the acceleration, we're running some GIS software that
paints a bucketload of 3d renders on one screen, and kicks the data
over to the stats package to model variograms and all that crap. So the
PCI card isn't gonna work. Plus I want to know my 500$ vid card is
useful.
So....any ideas on how to make video display on the screen using this
card and this FC3 kernel? The mobo has no AGP slots so "Get an AGP
card" won't work either. Funny thing is, the gui mode of the install
worked like a champ. anaconda reconized the card great.
(I've got the same errors with the 8.8.25 driver)
ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...icles/lspci.out
ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...08-2.6.10.patch
ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...after.patch.out
ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...C3.2.6.10-1.766
ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...tall.of.8.10.19
ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/locker...icles/xorg.conf
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