Fedora 10 ATI Problem (Inserting Module)

[peper]

Hi,
I'd like to upgrade my laptop from F8 to F10 but only thing that is stopping me is fglrx driver. I installed F10 x86_64 on external USB drive, downloaded 8.12 driver and I can't load fglrx module into memory.

FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/module/2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted

Can anyone tell me how to make it running and should I wait for another releases of ati drivers hoping that one of them will finally work with F10?

Regards,

[bridgman]

Fedora is not on our list of supported distros, and as far as I know fglrx does not work on F10 at this time. At least one forum member did get it sort-of working but not completely. We do look at Fedora releases to get an early view of what is coming down the pipe for RHEL (which *is* a supported distro) so simple problems may get fixed in a future driver, but our focus for Fedora is really with the open source drivers more than fglrx.

[Michael]

I committed to the Fedora packaging scripts last week what should be support for Fedora 10. As long as fglrx-packaging.git gets pulled again before Catalyst 9.1, it should be incorporated.

[NSLW]

Can anyone tell me how to make it running

Have you tried with drivers from rpmfusion->updates-testing repository (http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/10/i386/repoview/index.html )? Particulary the xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.561-3.8.12.fc10.i386

You can read more about it at forums.fedoraforum.org (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209127&page=2). There are peoples who claim that the driver is realy working.

[bridgman]

Cool, thanks !!

[peper]

That's not good because 'radeon' driver from distribution is not working properly with Integrated Radeon Mobility 1250 in my laptop. It work's quite fine unless you try to run anything that require acceleration.

[Nille]

That's not good because 'radeon' driver from distribution is not working properly with Integrated Radeon Mobility 1250 in my laptop. It work's quite fine unless you try to run anything that require acceleration.

With this Problem maybe a dev can help you. Do you ever tryed to ask on the mailing list or bugtracker ?

[bridgman]

I'm not sure if KMS is enabled for rs690 (X12xx) in F10; you might need to force "nomodeset" at boot...

[peper]

Have you tried with drivers from rpmfusion->updates-testing repository (http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/10/i386/repoview/index.html )? Particulary the xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.561-3.8.12.fc10.i386

You can read more about it at forums.fedoraforum.org (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209127&page=2). There are peoples who claim that the driver is realy working.


Just did, but couldn't install them, problems with dependencies I couldn't solve

[NSLW]

Just did, but couldn't install them, problems with dependencies I couldn't solve

My fault. I linked to 32 bit repository and you've got 64 bit Fedora therefore you should look into rpmfusion->updates-testing x86_64 (http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/10/x86_64/repoview/index.html)

Note that you'll have to:

-have got kernel-2.6.27.9-159

-install at the same time

xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.561-3.8.12.fc10.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-8.561-3.8.12.fc10.i386
kmod-fglrx-8.561-2.8.12.fc10.2.x86_64
kmod-fglrx-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64-8.561-2.8.12.fc10.2.x86_64
from this repository

-in case that you've got 64 bit Fedora you'll have to symlink fglrx_dri.so
according to leigh123@linux HOW TO on forums.fedoraforum.org (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=155503 ) it should look like this

rm -f /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
ln -s /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
ldconfig

- remake initrd
once more time from leigh123@linux HOW TO

mv /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img.backup
mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`

[peper]

I tried x86_64 repository. I had dependencies problem with python(abi) which I couldn't solve so far.