ATI-fglrx 8.29.6 and FC6

[Michael]

If you installed Fedora Core 6, the Radeon drivers should be with X.Org 7.1. Did you try simply updating your xorg.conf?

[Shinigami2057]

Hi, Semi:

I just encountered the same problem as you on my desktop. If you installed the virtualization packages, you more than likely have a Xen kernel, which has its own devel package. Try installing kernel-xen-devel; Michael, could you update your script to specify that you might need the xen devel package? Thanks :]

EDIT Grrr. Apparently fglrx does not work with kernel-xen at ALL. The driver won't load because of missing symbols in the kernel. I guess you'll have to fall back to the regular kernel. ATI's drivers are so damn broken.

[ndavis]

If you installed Fedora Core 6, the Radeon drivers should be with X.Org 7.1. Did you try simply updating your xorg.conf?

Hi Micheal,
Good catch. I didn't realize that, and found r300_dri.so in /usr/lib/dri/ after your comment. I can give that a shot. Do I need to move it? I will likely need to change my xorg.conf file as well. Now it looks like:

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Should I change Driver "fglrx" to Driver "radeon" or "r300"? I want to make sure that X loads that driver (r300_dri.so) instead of some other one. When I update my xorg.conf to Driver "radeon" it loads the mesa stuff for 3d indirect rendering, and I get other errors with compiz. Also when I do that glxgears runs really slowly. So I'm not sure if I'm using r300_dri.so properly when I do that. I am on a x86_64 machine, should I put a soft link to it in /usr/lib64/ ?

Thanks yet again!
ndavis

[Michael]

It should be Device "radeon". What Compiz errors do you run into? I have a few systems using the R300 drivers, so if you run into any other problems with that just post.

[ndavis]

It should be Device "radeon". What Compiz errors do you run into? I have a few systems using the R300 drivers, so if you run into any other problems with that just post.

Hi Michael,
I uninstalled my fglxr driver (just to avoid confusion), and beleive to have set things almost in order.
My xorg.conf file looks like this:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

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

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

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "Monitor 1280x1024"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 79.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

I think that this is using the r300_dri.so driver, but I didn't see it anywhere in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log, (an excerpt is shown below):

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(==) AIGLX enabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) Loading sub module "drm"
(II) LoadModule: "drm"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libdrm.so
(II) Module drm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 4.2.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
(II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 6.6.2
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0

Now, when I try and run compiz, or glxgears, or even glxinfo, my screen goes black and I get logged out. I reinstalled the mesa-libGL and mesa-libGLU libraries as I thought some problem might exist there, but still get the black screen + logout. Any ideas? Thanks again!

ndavis

[Michael]

Did you uninstall fglrx? Though it shouldn't be causing a direct conflict since it shouldn't be loaded.

Below is a xorg.conf on a R300 machine where I am running all the Zod eye candy. No problems. Pardon the fact that the input device is from a laptop.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
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 "radeon"
EndSection

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

[ndavis]

Did you uninstall fglrx? Though it shouldn't be causing a direct conflict since it shouldn't be loaded.

Below is a xorg.conf on a R300 machine where I am running all the Zod eye candy. No problems. Pardon the fact that the input device is from a laptop.

Section "ServerLayout"
.
.
.
etc.

Hi Michael,
I decided to do a fresh test of an FC6 install on a test machine. Right after the install completes, I modify my xorg.conf file to load the radeon driver. However, I think I found the problem. Looking through my xorg log, I see:

$ grep "Direct" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering broken on XPRESS 200 and 200M
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled

Sad, yes. I'm still not sure if it is using the r300_dri.so lib, but I presume it is if it can detect that I do indeed have an ATI Xpress 200. Hmmm... not sure what to try next. You have been a great help, though, thanks! Any info regarding this error message would be very appreciated.

Thanks again!
ndavis

[Michael]

Hmm only thing I could think of off hand would be to grab the latest code from git to see if it fixes your broken support.

[bmckinney]

Hi, I am having the same problem with linux/autoconf.h not found. I installed kernel-devel and kernel-headers and rebooted, but the problem persists. Thanks, Brett


Quote:
Originally Posted by _den View Post
Hi!

I am having problems with fglrx-fc6-8296-generator.sh script. when i run it become message:

linux/autoconf.h not found. Install kernel-devel first

kernel-devel package is alredy insatlled.

Do you have kernel-headers installed?

[Michael]

Did you grab the 8.30.3 drivers? If not, grab them, they are newer and have the new scripts integrated.