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]

Originally Posted by cheesewedge85

ATICONFIG -Initial

It should be:

aticonfig --initial

If you try the ATI.com drivers again, see here 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]

Originally Posted by cheesewedge85

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