Re: FC5 and ATi x1300 follow-up
- From: Peer Hebing <PHebing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:15:23 +0200
Paul in Toronto wrote:
Ok... The story so far... I followed Peer Hebing's advice and downloaded these packages:
kmod-fglrx
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
Then, I ran: ati-fglrx-config-display enable
And rebooted (old Windows habit, I guess).
After logging back on, I ran a GL screensaver, just to see how well the new drivers worked. My god, was it slow. It looked like it was running at 2 frames per second, or something.
So I uninstalled the two packages mentioned above, and downloaded and installed ATi's own Linux drivers. I ran aticonfig -- initial, as per the instructions, and rebooted.
I am sorry. I forget to mention that the livna package contain the
ATI-Drivers.
It is just the easier way to handle things because they use rpm.
Hmm... to be honest i considered writing an howto for
ATI-Driver-installation
but i thought it is unnessesary because installation is to easy ;-)
The x-server refused to start. Reinstalling the above driver packages didn't do anything, since it was already set up to use the ATI drivers, and I haven't figured out how to uninstall those yet (checking the ATi site now).
run:
/usr/share/fglrx/fglrx-uninstall.sh
Reinstall the livna-packages afterwards.
yum remove kmod-fglrx
yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
You will see that a new kernel is available and installed with the last
command.
Run
ati-fglrx-config-display enable
followed by
aticonfig -- initial
reboot to load the new kernel
and if X is start check the output of
fglrxinfo
and run
fgl_glxgears
If this is still not working contact ATI by filling in the form at:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=898&task=knowledge&folderID=4353
So... I'm obviously missing something. A screen saver should NOT run at 2 frames per second, and properly installed drivers published by the video card's manufacturer should not cause the x-server to fail to start.
Hmm..., the problem is that nobody knows what exactly is going wrong there
without looking at the log file. Is there a way that you post the log of
the xserver here ?
Any thoughts, advice, suggestions or whatever at this point would be much appreciated. I don't mind digging through configuration files, or tweaking, or playing around with stuff. But video drivers... That's something I wish would work more or less as advertised, like they do under Windows...
sorry, but i dont think that this is a good reference. They had a lot
of problems with windows-drivers in former times and probably they still
have. Building superior is not enough.
greetings
Peer
Especially when they come from the card's manufacturer.
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