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SUCCESS: ATI fglrx, Fedora Core 5, HP nw8240 Notebook
Managed some level of success this afternoon, in getting Fedora Core 5 to run in graphics mode on my HP nw8240 notebook. The following worked for me. Your mileage may vary, and I'm not responsible for any damage that may occur by following these steps. (... damn pain in the ass having to add all that legal disclaimer crap all the time...) sigh Here is what I did. 1. Did a fresh install of Fedora Core 5. God only knows what I had done to the previous install and there wasn't anything important on there anyway, so I blew it all away and did a fresh install. Note that you have to install FC5 in text mode, not in graphics mode. Previous Fedora Core distros let you install in low-resolution graphics mode, but FC5 will disappear right into the puckerbrush if you try the graphics mode installation. 2. rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm (to establish a repository for livna.org stuff) 3. yum install kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx. This installs BOTH the kmod-fglrx and the xorg-x11-drv-fglrx. And, since the updated kernel (2.6.17 vs the out of the box 2.6.15) is required the above command line installs that too. It also makes changes to xorg.conf, but it makes those changes INCORRECTLY and will screw things up royally if you don't know about it; more on that below. 4. Reboot. 5. As noted in step 3 above, "yum install...(etc.)" makes WRONG changes to xorg.conf, and aticonfig CANNOT fix them. You need to restore the OLD, unmodified copy of xorg.conf, which mercifully was saved under the filename xorg.conf.ati-config-backup or something fairly close to that (it'll be obvious when you look in the /etc/X11 directory). Copy that file over xorg.conf and then run aticonfig with no arguments. It will give you a usage message and tell you that for initial configuration you need to say aticonfig --initial --something_else ... I forget what the "something else" is but again, if you run aticonfig with no arguments and look at the text dump you get, it'll be obvious. 6. Reboot again. 7. Log on and say "startx" and it should come up in 1920x1200 mode. Regarding Step 3 ... Note that on the livna.org "Why switch to Livna ATI & Nvidia RPMS?" page, it tells you to use yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r) As regards FC5, this information is incorrect. It works on Fedora Core 4 but not on Fedora Core 5. No doubt it was written when FC4 came out but was not updated (yet) for FC5. The correct command is: yum install kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx I suppose that... yum install kmod-fglrx yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx .... would also work but I didn't do that. In any case, don't forget... rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm ....first, or yum won't find the fglrx modules. |
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SUCCESS: ATI fglrx, Fedora Core 5, HP nw8240 Notebook
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:21:36 -0400, C.J.Clegg wrote:
5. As noted in step 3 above, "yum install...(etc.)" makes WRONG changes to xorg.conf, and aticonfig CANNOT fix them. Yea, it used to do it right, but they "improved" something somewhere along the line :-). |
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