Problem with fglrx 8.11 and Fedora 10 (preview)

[Christian_L]

dkms status

fglrx, 8.552, 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686, i686: installed

[Edit] Ah yes, the first line in /var/log/boot.log is this, which has been reported by others on fedoraforum as well:
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted

[planetf1]

I tried this out when 8.11 came out.

The bad kernel module was the radeon driver being loaded. I initially tried

a) Adding "blacklist radeon" to /etc/modprobe.d/ati
b) uninstalling the xorg*ati*rpm package
c) removing the "rhgb" and adding "nomodeset" options to /boot/grub/menu.lst to stop the graphical boot

However the radeon module was still loaded

I then (after the above) rebuilt initrd , and after a reboot - no ati module!

I then installed the fglrx drivers (I tried both the feed on rpmfusion, as well as an install from the official driver, but in neither case could I get sensible behaviour

More details here -> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...9&postcount=18

Note that interestingly I had no issues with changing xorg to run "radeonhd" instead of "radeon" -- not that radeonhd was any better, indeed I think ati works the best.

Overally the opensource ati is working fairly well for desktop. 3D comes and goes dependent on the kernel/ati updates from the update feeds. more on that here -> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204296

[Kano]

Well radeon/drm may not be loaded, thats clear. If it is in the initrd you can unload it maybe or change the initrd. On debian blacklisting and then

update-initramfs -u

would work, no idea what fedora uses.

[Christian_L]

There was a fix reported on fedoraforum
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1117703

Didn't change anything for me, though.