Trouble with ATi Radeon X1300 driver installation

[foxtseng]

Please check these following threads first,

http://phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=318

http://phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?p=2348

Hope they will be helpful for you.

Hi,
can you tell me what exactly you had to do,
I don't really understand what you mean with creating symbolic links and so forth

thanks a bunch

[Alex]

Amenzix,
I used the following command to generate package of ati-driver-installer-8.30.3.run, but it didn't work.

#./ati-driver-installer-8.30.3.run --buildpkg Fedora/FC6

I got this error message.

Generating package: Fedora/FC6
Please install an appropriate Linux kernel module build package.
Probably kernel-devel in this case.
If you've compiled a custom kernel, make sure /usr/src/linux exists
and the source tree matches the currently running kernel.
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install

So, I installed the ati driver from linva website by using yum command.

#yum install kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx

#rpm -q kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
kmod-fglrx-8.31.5-1.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.31.5-1.lvn6

But when I started ATI Control Panel, an dialog with error pupped up!

"Drive does not provide the FirGL X11 extensions! Panel component will operate only partially!"

OpenGL Vendor was still Mesa!

# glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
direct rendering: No

Shuold I do something special after the installation?

## cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "EE"
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

//xorg.conf


# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

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

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection

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

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

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

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Foxtseng,
Could you tell me the steps you have done? I don't understand what you did?

Thanks!

[foxtseng]

Alex,

Check your libGL.so files.

find / -name libGL.so.1
and check what you got. some of them may be symbolic links, just take a close look at the targets of the links, which should be libGL.so.1.2
At least one of them should be at,
/usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1.2

and there should be one at,
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2

In my case, these two are not the same, the later is by Mesa, and used by the X11, while the former is by ATI but not used.
So I created a link,

#ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1.2
(of course, first remove the original link...)

But this is my case, I cannot sure that it will work for your situation.
Hope it will be helpful.

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