FGLRX Problems with ATI Mobile Radeon 1300

[cheesewedge85]

Hello Friends,
I just installed Fedora Core 6 a few weeks ago. (This is my first install of Linux, so I am a newbie - I appreciate your patience if I say some stupid things). I am finally getting used to getting around in Fedora. But I have a problem, it is similar to threads that I have seen elsewhere, but none of the solutions seemed to apply to me, or I didn't exactly understand what they were talking about.
Well,
My problem is this, I have no 3d support as far as I can tell,
I first tried installed the ATI Proprietary Linux Driver off of the ATI web page, but I was having problems with the fireglxcontrolpanel thing and with it saying it couldn't find that and one other file. So I just went onto yum and installed the KMOD Fglrx kernels off of there and the Xorg Fglrx kernels. They seemed to install fine (I can have my computer at the correct resolution) but I don't seem to have any 3d support.
if I do a fglrxinfo
I get

Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)


I cannot figure out how to change the OpenGL to change to ATI rather than Mesa. Is there a way that I can fix it, or should I try to reinstall off of the ATI webpage?
I appreciate any help that you can give me
Austin

[Michael]

Can you post your xorg.conf (found in /etc/X11/) and cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "EE" That would help in diagnosing the problem.

[cheesewedge85]

Here is the xorg.conf


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

39,0-1 Bot


When I tried to do a ATICONFIG -Initial it gave me this error message

Warning: Could not find configuration file
Please copy configuration file template to /etc/X11

Although xorg.conf was definitely in /etc/X11

[Michael]

ATICONFIG -Initial

It should be:

aticonfig --initial

If you try the ATI.com drivers again, see here (http://phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=318) for the fireglcontrolpanel problem.

Also, what did your Xorg.0.log show?

[cheesewedge85]

I think that the file is too long to post

[cheesewedge85]

I still had the same problem with with aticonfig -initial

[Michael]

If you do as mentioned in the previous post, it will only display the lines where there are errors (EE means error in the log).

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "EE"

[cheesewedge85]

ok, I'm sorry

[Michael]

I still had the same problem with with aticonfig -initial

Take note that there are two dashes, not just one.

aticonfig --initial

[michael@localhost ~]$ aticonfig -initial
Warning: Could not find configuration file
Please copy configuration file template to /etc/X11
[michael@localhost ~]$ aticonfig --initial
Found fglrx primary device section
Nothing to do, terminating.

[cheesewedge85]

k, sorry again

[cheesewedge85]

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,







(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.


Thats all it gave me I typed vim Xorg.0.log | grep "EE"

[cheesewedge85]

yeah aticonfig just gave me the same message you put down

[Michael]

yeah aticonfig just gave me the same message you put down

Have you tried rebooting now, to see if the aticonfig changes allowed the drivers to load properly?

Are you going to try using the official driver against from www.ati.com instead of Livna RPMs?

[cheesewedge85]

let me try removing the livna RPM's and and try reinstalling with aticonfig
I will tell you what happens

[cheesewedge85]

I am back to where I started, except that fireglcontrolpanel doesn't work anymore
and when I try to install the fglrx from the repository it tells me that I need to download the linux kernel and then gives me an error saying that I already have it, yup no kidding!

[cheesewedge85]

I just can't figure out how to switch from the mesa opengl to ATI opengl

[Michael]

I just can't figure out how to switch from the mesa opengl to ATI opengl

To switch you should just need to configure your xorg.conf (using aticonfig --initial) after you have installed the drivers.

If you have installed the drivers, configured X, and you are still running into problems, check your Xorg.0.log for errors.