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Re: Athena doesn't successfully run the ATI Radeon X1300 driver.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Apr 12 14:27:56 2007
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:27:06 -0400
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I found what the problem was. Since I was using a non-standard
kernel, there was no kernel-devel RPM installed. The ATI installer
gui did not warn me that an attempt was made to build the fglrx
kernel module that failed.
After installing the relevant kernel-devel module, and building the
kernel module, restarting X resulted in a fully enhanced environment
with the necessary kernel and X modules installed, and the glxgears
program reports the 4800 fps I saw under RHEL 4.5, Ubuntu, and SuSE.
-Bill
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William Cattey
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On Apr 11, 2007, at 5:44 PM, William Cattey wrote:
> I've been playing with the ATI Proprietary device driver for X
> under Ubuntu, SuSE, and RHEL 4.5. It works fine in all those places.
>
> But when I go to Athena, although the ATI installer says it's
> successfully installed the driver, it does not work. The fglrx
> module init fails saying (in Xorg.0.log) that the DRI
> initialization failed. Earlier it said GART initialization failed
> and so its disabling DRI.
>
> I remember seeing something about certain versions of agpgart not
> being compatible with the driver, and it may be that the kernel has
> too old an agpgart. At any rate, we will need to do some more
> debugging/understanding/updating before the ATI driver that works
> on the Optiplex 745 will work for Athena.
>
> -Bill
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> William Cattey
> Linux Platform Coordinator
> MIT Information Services & Technology
>
> W92-176, 617-253-0140, wdc@mit.edu
> http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/
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>
