On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:20 AM, sync jiannma@gmail.com wrote:
2010/8/13 Przemysław Pawełczyk pp_o2@o2.pl
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
John Doe jdmls@yahoo.com wrote:
From: sync jiannma@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.
- 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_cat1...
Radeon HD 5xxxx is included in the 10.7 list of ATI drivers
Installation went smoothly without a problem
ATI driver is named fglrx*
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 ...
- 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?)
ATI installs aticccle manager + fgl_glxgears (with 3D rotating cube)
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
- 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@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.....