ATI fglrx 8.31.5 Display Drivers

[niniendowarrior]

Do I need to install the devel rpms? Because I'm still getting nothing here. I'll just e-mail you my conf files because it's just a pain to post here.

[Michael]

For the purpose of being complete, install all the RPMs. Yes, feel free to email the config files to me.

[niniendowarrior]

No such luck, Michael. No 3d.

[Michael]

Your problem looks to be due to AGP. Have you tried upgrading your kernel or rebuilding agpgart?

For a bit more detailed answer, see: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/li...10.html#175058

[niniendowarrior]

This kernel is out of the box. Do you think I need to upgrade the kernel?

I'm checking yum right now... seems it's difficult to find one.

EDIT:

I did yum -y update kernel according to this site...

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html

And I lost my ethernet adapter. So now I'm back to my old kernel. Another day perhaps... or I'm contemplating on getting rid of Fedora and replacing it with something else.

[Michael]

Have you considered upgrading to Fedora 6? Core 4 is getting pretty out of date these days for desktop usage -- GNOME 2.10, GCC 4.0, etc...

Your problem with updating the kernel might be as Fedora Core 4 is no longer supported by the Fedora Project. Core 4 is part of the Legacy project now, so you may have to enable that repo.

What is your network adapter?

[niniendowarrior]

Are you serious? I've never had to upgrade my distributions. The changes here keep piling up.

If I attempt to upgrade to Fedora Core 6 by yum, that does not guarantee fixing my system. And... if I'm reinstalling, I'm thinking of going with Ubuntu. Do I have other options here or I'm just totally screwed? My 3d acceleration USED TO WORK until that blasted 8.31.8 ruined my driver.

[Michael]

From what it sounds there might be a problem with your agpgart or the agp kernel module for your specific chipset, based upon the information available. You might be able to fix the issue by rebuilding your kernel.

[niniendowarrior]

I'm thinking about doing that, Michael. Any thoughts on what kernel options you want specifically done for this build because I can't think of anything else I can do to fix this driver issue apart from reinstalling Fedora or just installing Ubuntu (and probably upgrade to Xubuntu).

By the way, the ethernet adapter is an sk98lin.

[Michael]

I can't think of any extra options off hand to specify, but I don't deal with AGP much anymore.