[CentOS] ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470

Sat Aug 14 06:34:30 UTC 2010
sync <jiannma at gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:20 AM, sync <jiannma at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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> 2010/8/13 Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp_o2 at o2.pl>
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
>> John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > From: sync <jiannma at gmail.com>
>> > > I try  to use that version  but  it does not work ...
>> > > Fatal : Module fglrx not found ..
>> >
>> > Did you check if the module is present somewhere?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed ATI in Debian dozens of times. Just tried the same process
>> on SL 5.5 here few minutes before.
>>
>> 1) linux-cat107-install.pdf from ATI download website says what files
>> you have to have installed prior to ATI instalation/kernel compilation
>>
>>
>> https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_cat107-inst.pdf
>>
>> 2) Radeon HD 5xxxx is included in the 10.7 list of ATI drivers
>>
>> 3) Installation went smoothly without a problem
>>
>> 4) ATI driver is named fglrx*
>>
>> 5) search for its mutations ;-) there:
>> lib/modules/fglrx
>> lib-/modules/"kernel-sig"/kernel/drivers/char/drm
>>
>> kernel-sig = your kernel's signature
>>
>
> Thanks for your advice .
>
>  I refered to the ATI driver installation doc and found the following
> message :
>
> Note: If a Linux 2.6.11 or newer kernel was built with
> CONFIG_AGP enabled, the kernel AGP frontend is required to load
> the fglrx kernel module. To identify whether your kernel was built
> with CONFIG_AGP enabled, look for CONFIG_AGP=y in the
> kernel config file, or if the 'agpgart' module is loaded.
>
> And I found  that module is not in CentOS 5.5 x8_64 .
>
> So could I compile the kernel that enable that module ?
>
> Isn't  it right ?  Thanks ...
>
>
>> 6) Alas there is not such thing like Debian's modconf to conveniently
>> check/manage installed kernel modules; there is no such file
>> like Debian's /etc/modules with a list of additionally installed kernel
>> modules.
>>
>> (Perhaps someone hints us how to peep into SL kernel modules?)
>>
>> 7) ATI installs aticccle manager + fgl_glxgears (with 3D rotating cube)
>>
>> 8) You __have to change__ "manually" monitor's VertRefresh and HorizSync
>> data in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, e.g.:
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>>        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
>>        HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
>>        VertRefresh  50.0 - 120.0
>>        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
>>        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
>>        Option      "DPMS" "true"
>> EndSection
>>
>> and add "Modes" line in Screen section:
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>>        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
>>        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
>>        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
>>        DefaultDepth     24
>>        SubSection "Display"
>>                Viewport   0 0
>>                Depth     24
>>                Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>        EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
>>
>> 9) WARNING :-(
>>
>> ATI worked good but I had impression that Xorg's latest radeon driver
>> (found in SL 5.5) worked better, especially during MC window resizing -
>> radeon was making less flickering than ATI proprietary driver.
>>
>> The warning relates to system fonts- ATI changed my system fonts to
>> "something ugly" and in 6 pt size! I use IceWM, but every apps got the
>> same fonts and nothing could be done via IceWM settings, of course.
>> Thank God, I had a magnifying glass at hand...
>>
>> So said I changed X11 settings to previous ones, namely to SL radeon
>> driver.
>>
>> BTW. How to change system font in SL? I tried to find out thru google
>> search but to no avail. And there is no such script like
>> system-config-fonts, why?
>>
>> I hope I were able to help.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> --
>> Przemysław Pawełczyk (P2O2) [pron. Pshemislav Paveltchick]
>> http://pp.blast.pl, pp_o2 at o2.pl
>>
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>

I solved it by myself .

I  tried to   try " yum install kernel  kernel-header  kernel-devel "
command  to install that packages
and then reinstall the ATI graph driver again .  This time  the screen works
well ..

Haaha.....
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