ATI 9800 Fedora Core 4 3D acceleration woes

[CWilly]

I'm sure this question is asked numerous times, but ive tried all the common solutions and it just doesnt bloody work!!

Ive tried the drivers off the ATI site and then running fglrxconfig.....all goes well but after a reboot, fglrxinfo still tells me that the MESA drivers are being used.

Ive tried the linva method:

yum install ati-fglrx kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r)

All seems to go well but again, after rebooting, the MESA drivers are again shown in fglrxinfo.

A look at my Xorg log file shows:

(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
(II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx
(II) fglrx(0): Version: 8.14.13
(II) fglrx(0): Date: Jun 8 2005
(II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
(WW) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version does *not* match driver.
(EE) fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated OpenGL will not work
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf8bb5000 at 0xb7cf7000
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

There looks to be some kernel mismatch, but i'm using a clean install of fedora 4 so surely the correct versions should have been installed off the linva site?

Im not that experienced with linux and any help will be appreciated!! I'm currently pulling my hair out over this!!

[centos_x]

Your kernel-module is not properly loading so default back to mesa drivers

for example you have the
ati-fglrx-8.14.13 so you would need coresponding kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.XX.XXXX


on my system is as follows

kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3-8.18.6.1-0.lvn.1.3
ati-fglrx-8.18.6.1-0.lvn.1.3

1. very important that the kernel module matches your systems kernel version
2. Also second set of numbers in kernel module after FC3- is the driver version witch must match the ati-fglrx version

to see what you have installed type following to see what you have installed for ATI support

rpm -qa | grep -i fglrx

and following to see the latest kernel

rpm -q kernel

[CWilly]

Cheers! I've just manually installed a matching kernel/fglrx pair and it works fine! Thanks again!

[jrbush82]

Can you put in exactly what you did, I am having the exact same problem:

[jason@jason ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i fglrx
ati-fglrx-8.18.6.1-0.lvn.1.4
[jason@jason ~]$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
[jason@jason ~]$

[CWilly]

Ok, first remove both the ati-fglrx and kernel-module-fglrx that you currently have installed.

Goto the livna site. (For some reason the main site isnt working for me so i used the mirror:

http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/

Download:

ati-fglrx-8.14.13.1-0.lvn.5.4.i386.rpm
kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-8.14.13.1-0.lvn.5.4.i686.rpm

Make sure that you get the exact same ones.

Install both, reboot and that should fix it! (Hopefully!)

[jrbush82]

Actually I figured it out on how to get the ATI proprietary drivers from ATI to work.. I'll post how I did it.