Radeon 9800 Pro Driver problems

Massey · #1 20th May 2008, 04:09 AM

Hiya everyone. I am new to the forums... Fedora.... and Linux. I am not new to computers but I cut my teeth on MS stuff and the Linux is totally new to me. Here is what I got.

AMD 3200+ 64bit running at 2Ghz
1 Gig Memory
200Gig Hdd
SB Live 5.1
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Meg.

I am running Fedora 9.

My problem is that I dont have Open GL or any 3D rendering. I have been on the ATI webdite and downloaded the Linux driver installation file but I cant seem to find a way to access it and get the installer to install. ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run is what I got. I have been trying to read up on how this works but the instructions in my book (Sams Fedora Unleashed 2008) does not cover the .run I also dont quite understand how to enable Livna (book says I need to) I follow the directions and I dont seem to make any changes. Can some one give me some instructions on how to do this or point me in the right direction.

Thank you
Massey

#2 20th May 2008, 04:23 AM

Did you look back through the forum at all the posts about ATI and nVidia having no drivers for F9?

Edit: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...99&postcount=1

Just hang in there for a while, drivers (hopefully) should be forthcoming.

There are also a couple of threads with instructions on how to downgrade to the xorg version in Fedora 8, which will allow you to install drivers. I'm having problems with search right now.

Wayne

Massey · #3 20th May 2008, 04:56 AM

Well Ok that didnt help. The site just says how to and then you get a your ATI card is not supported by F9 sorry

Any other ideas?

Massey

#4 20th May 2008, 05:22 AM

At the moment the only answer is the post by Leigh in this thread:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...ndow+System%22

Wayne

Massey · #5 20th May 2008, 06:08 AM

OK followed the links... NO joy on the F9 stuff yet. I dont know if I want to downgrade or wait. I am just learning Linux and I am not comfortable enough with it yet to know that I am doing the correct mods to make a video card work. I want to get my 3D effects up and running and I want to also play Eve-Online again. Do any of you know of a good card that will install in F9 without the headache that I am having with my Radeon 9800 Pro?

Massey

#6 20th May 2008, 06:10 AM

Your best bet would probably install Fedora 8 and wait for the kinks in F9 to be ironed out. Both ATI and nVidia are unsupported at the moment.. That leaves....?

Thetargos · #7 20th May 2008, 07:25 AM

This is odd, that card should be supported (3D and all) with the Xorg Radeon driver (or the ati wrapper driver). You should be able to use 3D (albeit not as fast as with the fglrx drivers) but you should be able to at least have some 3D functionality. Could you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?

hammel · #8 20th May 2008, 09:19 AM

I also have problems with my "ATI Radeon X1650 256". It only works with the vesa driver. Neither the radeon nor the ati driver works. The screen goes black after udev. Here is my xorg conf:

Code:

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

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "ch"
        Option      "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        ModelName    "BenQ FP202W"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 84.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

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

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

#9 20th May 2008, 09:34 AM

Please, please file a bug report! I've had issues with the radeon driver and my older Radeon 7200 since F8 was released (Even the latest Ubuntu is borked) I'm using F9 with xorg from F8 with the F7 radeon driver

Sounds a mess, right?

Wayne

hammel · #10 20th May 2008, 09:49 AM

Bug filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447508

#11 20th May 2008, 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hammel

Bug filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447508

Excellent, they'll also ask you for your xorg log file created when trying to use the radeon driver.

Wayne

leigh123linux · #12 20th May 2008, 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hammel

I also have problems with my "ATI Radeon X1650 256". It only works with the vesa driver. Neither the radeon nor the ati driver works. The screen goes black after udev. Here is my xorg conf:

Code:

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

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "ch"
        Option      "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        ModelName    "BenQ FP202W"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 84.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

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

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Your card chipset ( r5** ) is unsupported by the radeon driver !

Try the radeonhd driver instead !

Code:

su
yum install xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeonhd"
EndSection

hammel · #13 20th May 2008, 10:41 AM

Yes it is working whit the radeonhd driver. But he was not installed and anaconda automatically wrote "radeon" in the xorg.conf. So I (and many other peoples) had (have) the wrong driver.......

Thanks a lot!

Thetargos · #14 20th May 2008, 03:41 PM

Actually the latest branch of the Radeon driver should support the R(v)5*0s through AtomBIOS, I guess Fedora didn't used the latest. In any case, the radeon driver should have worked... at least it did with my X1200 (RV690) with F8 out of the box... Maybe a regression in the drivers, before the AtomBIOS support was added? Who knows... The good news is that you have at least your card working.

Massey · #15 20th May 2008, 07:24 PM

OK sorry for the noob questions and what not. How do I print that file? I am like really new to this OS and how it functions. so if you could dumb down the steps I would appreciate it.

Massey