Problems of ATI driver 8.31.5 from livna repo

[Michael]

For Livna RPMs, last time I used them you had the option of installing the control panel or not. However, with the official AMD installer once you pass --buildpkg Fedora/FC6 that is the only option and it will execute the scripts to build all of the RPMs. The way to get the fireglcontrolpanel out of the build stack would be to comment out or eliminate the code in the packaging script.

[foxtseng]

I am not sure how to do this. You mean comment out some lines in the scripts attached before the binary code, or we have to extract out all the stuff first and then play with them?

For Livna RPMs, last time I used them you had the option of installing the control panel or not. However, with the official AMD installer once you pass --buildpkg Fedora/FC6 that is the only option and it will execute the scripts to build all of the RPMs. The way to get the fireglcontrolpanel out of the build stack would be to comment out or eliminate the code in the packaging script.

[Michael]

Run

./amd-driver-name.run --extract

Then in

fglrx-install/packages/Fedora

open ATI-fglrx.spec-tmpl and remove or comment:

%{_bindir}/fireglcontrolpanel

In ati-packager.sh open that up and remove or comment out:

     if [ ! -x ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel ]; then
       mkdir ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/src/ati/fglrx_panel_sources
       pushd ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/src/ati/fglrx_panel_sources &> /dev/null
       tar xzf ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/src/ati/fglrx_panel_sources.tgz
       sed -i 's|^LIBQT_DYN = qt$|LIBQT_DYN = qt-mt|' Makefile
       sed -i 's|STRIP = strip|STRIP = @echo strip is disabled for:|' Makefile
       sed -i 's|BASENAME =  fireglcontrol|BASENAME =  fireglcontrolpanel|' Makefile
       [ -n "$QTDIR" ] || . /etc/profile.d/qt.sh && make &> /dev/null
       install -p -m 0755 fireglcontrolpanel ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel
       popd &> /dev/null
     fi

and then that should probably be it. Then move back into the main fglrx-install folder and run

./ati-installer.sh 8.31.5 --buildpkg Fedora/FC6

and it should build without fireglcontrolpanel. If I recall correctly, those should be all of the fireglcontrolpanel references you need to remove. If it still gives you problems when building, just follow where it gives you the problem and then comment/remove those lines.

[foxtseng]

Sorry for my stupid mistake.

I did not remove the old module after upgrade. So, after a reboot and create a symbolic link to the right libGL.so.1.2, it works fine now.

Livna's fglrx 8.31.5 driver is okay.

Sorry for the confusion. Maybe the whole thread should be removed.

[Quang]

Hi every body!
I'm new user, (I've used Linux for 2 days) and I have a trouble with install ATI Drv. (Fedora Core 6 ( Zod ) 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6. VGA ATI Radeon 9600 Pro)

[root@localhost ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kmod-fglrx.i686 0:8.31.5-1.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6 set to be installed
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: fglrx-kmod-common >= 8.31.5 for package: kmod-fglrx
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-fglrx.i386 0:8.31.5-1.lvn6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Conflict: ati-x11-drv conflicts xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: ati-x11-drv conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
How can I do???