ATi-driver installed on FC6 and no 3D-rendering

[Gul Dukat]

Hi,

I've recently installed the ATi-drivers, out of the Livna-repo, on my freshly installed Fedora 6 installation. For the record, my graphics-card is an ATi Radeon X700. The installation went fine, no problems, but after a reboot and entering the following command:

glxinfo | grep direct

I got the following feedback:

 glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

Where did I go wrong?

Btw, this my xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier	 "Default Layout"
Screen	  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice	"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice	"Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver	  "kbd"
Option		"XkbModel" "pc105"
Option		"XkbLayout" "us"
Option		"XkbVariant" "intl"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Synaptics"
Driver	  "synaptics"
Option		"Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option		"Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option		"Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Videocard0"
Driver	  "fglrx"
EndSection

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

Hope someone can help me with this. Thanks in advance.

Edited December 28, 2006 by Gul Dukat

[Reiver_Fluffi]

looks like dri isn't enabled, try adding the following into xorg.conf:

 

Section "Module"
Load   "dri"
Load   "extmod"
Load   "glx"
EndSection

 

(not sure how much of the above is necessary, the "dri" certainly is)

and

 

Section "DRI"
	Group		0
	Mode		 0666
EndSection

[Gul Dukat]

Thanks for your reply, Reiver_Fluffi.

But after adding those sections, X won't start at all and I'm stuck with the cursor. After deleting those sections, I was able to reboot with X starting.

[Gul Dukat]

Somehow, I did something wrong, but now the added sections seem to be accepted and X starts with no problems. And the "DRI" error in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log is gone. But I still haven't got 3D-rendering working. Any suggestions?

[jlc]

You need to disable a few things in your xorg.conf

 

Section "Extensions"
 Option "Composite" "False"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	  "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

 

Run these commands

 

ati-fglrx-config-display enable
ati-fglrx-config-display enabledri

 

Also, check your kernel version, do you have i586 or i686

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|grep kernel|sort

[Gul Dukat]

Run these commands

 

ati-fglrx-config-display enable
ati-fglrx-config-display enabledri

Can I run these commands from within Gnome or do I need to go into init 3 first?

Also, check your kernel version, do you have i586 or i686

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|grep kernel|sort

This command gave the following feedback:

kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686
kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6.i686
kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i386
kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6.i386

Does this mean that I'm using the wrong kernel-headers?

[jlc]

You can run those in gnome, you just have to kill X afterwards.

 

Kernel is fine, I assume your currently running the latest 2868 and that is the latest drivers from livna too.

 

rpm -qa kmod\*

 

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/

 

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodat...1.2868.fc6.html

[Gul Dukat]

You can run those in gnome, you just have to kill X afterwards.

 

Kernel is fine, I assume your currently running the latest 2868 and that is the latest drivers from livna too.

 

rpm -qa kmod\*

 

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/

 

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodat...1.2868.fc6.html

Ok will try that. The rpm -qa kmod\* gave me this:

kmod-fglrx-8.31.5-1.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6

So I thought those were the latest drivers.

 

Thanks jlc, it worked. I've now got 3D-rendering working. :D

 

Just another question concerning this problem. How do you consider the drivers from the ATi-site, in comparison to the the Livna-drivers?

[jlc]

I think the livna ones have a hack to make the install actually work, that might simply be for the kernel includes anyway which is easy, but it is also easier to "yum install/update blah" than www.ati.com / download / unpack/install . blah blah blah ;)

[Gul Dukat]

Oke, thanks.