ATI driver installation under Fedora Core 4 (and or 5) FireGL V3100 PCIE

[Nicolas BERCHER]

OK, I had no answer from the list but found out a solution:

I first detected that some of libraries previously installed by the 
nvidia driver where still here and used via some auto generated symbolic 
links at the PC startup (was something like that: "libGL.so.0.1 -> 
libGL.so.0.1.7676", etc.) !!!
So, I thought it'll be a good idea to remove every packages related to X 
librairies in order to clean up this mess and then to re-install them 
(xorg-* packages).
I did it, and then installed the ATI driver.

All is working good now, I just wonder how these nvidia libraries where 
still here and what kind of script was still here to create these 
symbolic links at every startup...
I think I forgot to correctly uninstall one of the version of the nvidia 
driver I used in the past with my old hardware configuration.

Thank you for your attention.
Nicolas.

>  Hi!
>
> I'm trying to install an ATI graphic driver for my DELL Precision 670.
> I'm currently using this configuration:
> - DELL Precision 670, Bios revision A07 (flashed under windows 2k)
> - ATI FireGL V3100 PCIE (see below for more details)
>
> - Fedora Core 4 (will update to fedora 5 soon)
> - Xorg 6.8.2 (see below for my xorg.conf file)
> - SMP kernel version 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4smp
> - ATI driver version 8.26.18
>
> I'am encountering problems while using the DRI Xorg module (enabled 
> via xorg.conf): when I enable DRI, X hangs up (an restarts) when I 
> call an OpenGL depend programs or simply one of the "fgl*" utility 
> (fglxinfo, fgl_glxgears, etc.).
> Note that:
> - I'm using RPM packages from the Livna repository: 
> *kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4smp-8.26.18-1.lvn4*, 
> *fglrx_6_8_0-8.25.18-1* and *ati-fglrx-8.26.18-1.lvn4*
> - The first time I installed the ATI driver (not SMP kernel 
> 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4), it was working good, but it is impossible for me 
> to get back to this working configuration (even with a SMP kernel or 
> not SMP one).
> - I've also tryied the ATI binary installer
> - After yum finished the RPMs installation, I run the command
>     aticonfig --initial
> which creates a set of sections in my xorg.conf file.
>
> Does anyone here know if there's something special with my configuration ?
> Anything a forgot to do ?
>
> Thank you for any help !
> Nicolas.
>
> ---- xorg.conf:
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "single head configuration"
>         Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>         FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "fbdevhw"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "dri"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "fr"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
>         Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
>         Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
>         Option      "DPMS" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
>         Driver      "fglrx"
>         Option      "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
>         Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
>         Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
>         Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
> ---- lshw output:
> FireGL V3100 PCIE:
>        *-display:0
>              description: VGA compatible controller
>              product: RV370 5B64 [FireGL V3100 (PCIE)]
>              vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
>              physical id: 0
>              bus info: pci at 05:00.0
>              version: 80
>              size: 128MB
>              width: 32 bits
>              clock: 33MHz
>              capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list
>              configuration: latency=0
>              resources: iomemory:d0000000-d7ffffff ioport:bc00-bcff 
> iomemory:df9e0000-df9effff irq:11
>
>-- 
>Nicolas BERCHER
>Doctorant UMR TETIS (P.Kosuth)
>Cemagref-CIRAD-ENGREF
>nicolas.bercher at teledetection.fr
>
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>  
>

-- 
Nicolas BERCHER
Doctorant UMR TETIS (P.Kosuth)
Cemagref-CIRAD-ENGREF
nicolas.bercher at teledetection.fr

Maison de la Télédétection
500 rue J.F. Breton
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      (bureau 16)
Tél : 33 (0)4 67 54 87 16
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