In my case (Mobility FireGL V5200 on Fedora 8 64bit), I got the PreInitDAL error when using the rpms built by the ati-installer program. But when I installed it directly from the graphical interface,...
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In my case (Mobility FireGL V5200 on Fedora 8 64bit), I got the PreInitDAL error when using the rpms built by the ati-installer program. But when I installed it directly from the graphical interface,...
I was able to get 7.12 working on Fedora 8 64bit, but not without some work.
Simply using the graphical installer failed to make the kernel module, though the driver gets installed properly....
Adding the line ChipID XXXX to the device section of the xorg.conf file makes the X server assume that the card is whatever card specified by that PCI ID. For Mobility Radeon X1600, it is 0x71c5....
Sounds like the same problem I have (Mobility FireGL V5200 on a Z61p). The recent drivers do not support FireGL, so I get something like:
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version...
I had been using fglrx 8.37.6 from livna on Fedora 7 with no problems, for a FireGL V5200 on a ThinkPad Z61p. I installed Fedora 8, and I have no apparent
problems loading the fglrx module, but no...