Gul Dukat Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 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 ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 Oke, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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