Hello guys!
Ok that's my story (its a little bit long but describes all the picture):
Once upon a time I decided to install ATI driver on my Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI, which works with ATI Mobility Radeon X600.
So I went to ATI site and downloaded linux driver for my FC8.
I installed it on my laptop, but something got wrong, as I can remember the problem was caused by version of kernel, it wasn't suitable or something like that.
Since I'm new to linux and don't know how handle that kind of stuff I've decided simply to remove it from laptop and look around for some easier way of installation.
I found this site: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon
Which explains how exactly I can do it:
"yum install kmod-fglrx"
and then enable 3D support:
"init 3" "fglrx-config-display enable" "reboot"
The process has started and at the end yum returned me a message: "Error: ati-x11-drv conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-fglrx"
At this point some feeling of "not completely un-installed previous driver" started to rise inside me.
That feeling made me to check if there some files (packages) left at the system. After checking my yumex I found a "xorg-x11-drv-ati" package, and removed it. At this point the "catch" appeared. Yum has removed not only "xorg-x11-drv-ati" but "xorg-x11-drivers" too. Somehow it looked nice to me cause my thought was:"now I haven't any package that can interfere my installation.
I rebooted my laptop and got into "init 3" black screen. Of course I saw the message that told about "no x11 drivers installed".
I tried "yum install kmod-fglrx" command one more time, and was very surprised when I saw the same error about driver confrontation.
So now I have init 3 mode for work and have no ATI driver installed :))
Please if anyone knows how fix this issue I will be glad to hear the answer.
Also if you don't mind, I would like to know which steps (that I made) were lame. Where did I wrong?
Sincerely,
Ivan.
mailto:bravo.elf@gmail.com
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx is provided by livna and works together with kmod-fglrx (livna too).
I'm using this driver without any problem.
Let's try this:
1) Look at /etc/yum.repo.d/ to see your active repositories;
2) You won't have any conflict using only base, updates, adobe, google and livna; (enough for 95% of Fedora users)
3) Use "rpm -qa|grep -i ati" to list all packages with "ati" tag and remove anything that looks like a ATI driver;
4) Reinstall fglrx and pay attention if the packages really came from livna.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, bravo_elf bravo.elf@gmail.com wrote:
Hello guys!
Ok that's my story (its a little bit long but describes all the picture):
Once upon a time I decided to install ATI driver on my Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI, which works with ATI Mobility Radeon X600.
So I went to ATI site and downloaded linux driver for my FC8.
I installed it on my laptop, but something got wrong, as I can remember the problem was caused by version of kernel, it wasn't suitable or something like that.
Since I'm new to linux and don't know how handle that kind of stuff I've decided simply to remove it from laptop and look around for some easier way of installation.
I found this site: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon
Which explains how exactly I can do it:
"yum install kmod-fglrx"
and then enable 3D support:
"init 3" "fglrx-config-display enable" "reboot"
The process has started and at the end yum returned me a message: "Error: ati-x11-drv conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-fglrx"
At this point some feeling of "not completely un-installed previous driver" started to rise inside me.
That feeling made me to check if there some files (packages) left at the system. After checking my yumex I found a "xorg-x11-drv-ati" package, and removed it. At this point the "catch" appeared. Yum has removed not only "xorg-x11-drv-ati" but "xorg-x11-drivers" too. Somehow it looked nice to me cause my thought was:"now I haven't any package that can interfere my installation.
I rebooted my laptop and got into "init 3" black screen. Of course I saw the message that told about "no x11 drivers installed".
I tried "yum install kmod-fglrx" command one more time, and was very surprised when I saw the same error about driver confrontation.
So now I have init 3 mode for work and have no ATI driver installed :))
Please if anyone knows how fix this issue I will be glad to hear the answer.
Also if you don't mind, I would like to know which steps (that I made) were lame. Where did I wrong?
Sincerely,
Ivan.
mailto:bravo.elf@gmail.com
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Hello Heitor,
Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 6:35:12 AM, you wrote:
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx is provided by livna and works together with kmod-fglrx (livna too).
I'm using this driver without any problem.
Let's try this:
- Look at /etc/yum.repo.d/ to see your active repositories;
- You won't have any conflict using only base, updates, adobe, google
and livna; (enough for 95% of Fedora users)
- Use "rpm -qa|grep -i ati" to list all packages with "ati" tag and
remove anything that looks like a ATI driver;
- Reinstall fglrx and pay attention if the packages really came from livna.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, bravo_elf bravo.elf@gmail.com wrote:
Hello guys!
Ok that's my story (its a little bit long but describes all the picture):
Once upon a time I decided to install ATI driver on my Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI, which works with ATI Mobility Radeon X600.
So I went to ATI site and downloaded linux driver for my FC8.
I installed it on my laptop, but something got wrong, as I can remember the problem was caused by version of kernel, it wasn't suitable or something like that.
Since I'm new to linux and don't know how handle that kind of stuff I've decided simply to remove it from laptop and look around for some easier way of installation.
I found this site: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon
Which explains how exactly I can do it:
"yum install kmod-fglrx"
and then enable 3D support:
"init 3" "fglrx-config-display enable" "reboot"
The process has started and at the end yum returned me a message: "Error: ati-x11-drv conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-fglrx"
At this point some feeling of "not completely un-installed previous driver" started to rise inside me.
That feeling made me to check if there some files (packages) left at the system. After checking my yumex I found a "xorg-x11-drv-ati" package, and removed it. At this point the "catch" appeared. Yum has removed not only "xorg-x11-drv-ati" but "xorg-x11-drivers" too. Somehow it looked nice to me cause my thought was:"now I haven't any package that can interfere my installation.
I rebooted my laptop and got into "init 3" black screen. Of course I saw the message that told about "no x11 drivers installed".
I tried "yum install kmod-fglrx" command one more time, and was very surprised when I saw the same error about driver confrontation.
So now I have init 3 mode for work and have no ATI driver installed
Please if anyone knows how fix this issue I will be glad to hear the answer.
Also if you don't mind, I would like to know which steps (that I made) were lame. Where did I wrong?
Sincerely,
Ivan.
mailto:bravo.elf@gmail.com
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Ok then... I tried all that you said, but with no changes, I got the same error.
1) At "/etc/yum.repos.d/ I found these files:
adobe-linux-i386.repo atrpms.repo fedora-development.repo fedora-install-media.repo fedora.repo fedora-updates.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo freshrpms.repo jpackage.repo kde-redhat.repo livna-devel.repo livna.repo livna-testing.repo planetccrma.repo rpmforge.repo
I've removed these: fedora-updates.repo|atrpms.repo|jpackage.repo|livna-devel.repo|livna-testing.repo|planetccrma.repo|rpmforge.repo
2) Futhermore I checked the "rpm -qa|grep -i ati" and found nothing, only these packages were present:
startup-notification-devel konversation tomcat-native krb5-workstation startup-notification lohit-fonts-gujarati gutenprint-foomatic liberation-fonts foomatic
That's all I have.
I tried "yum install kmod-fglrx" once more and got the same message.
Have any ideas?
Ivan.
mailto:bravo.elf@gmail.com
Let's go!
I'm not a native english speaker [=brazilian], so something can look strange, but i'll give my best.
Ok then... I tried all that you said, but with no changes, I got the same error.
- At "/etc/yum.repos.d/ I found these files:
adobe-linux-i386.repo atrpms.repo
...
planetccrma.repo rpmforge.repo
I've removed these: fedora-updates.repo|atrpms.repo|jpackage.repo|livna-devel.repo|livna-testing.repo|planetccrma.repo|rpmforge.repo
Every .repo file is a text file. If you created then, thats ok. If you don't know why atrpms, planetccrma or rpmforge are at /etc/yum.repos.d, you have a problem.
Let's try fedora.repo:
You will find 3 sections, the first section is [fedora] and is enabled (enabled=1). To remove a repo, you need to set enabled=1 in every section you are disabling. But "don't remove the files".
This repo files comes with Fedora:
fedora-development.repo Fedora-install-media.repo fedora.repo fedora-updates.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo
Some unofficial .rpm packages from atrpms, livna or www.fedorafaq.org will give you additional .repo files.
The Unofficial Fedora FAQ will give you:
/etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/kde-redhat.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/planetccrma.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
I suppose you have installed them with this line [from fedorafaq]:
# rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
I really don't like this approach, because this repos, sometimes, don't work together.
To clear this, remove the package "yum-fedorafaq" installed from http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum. Or this file will be garbage inside you RPM database.
To repair livna and fedora repos [specially fedora-updates], download and reinstall the following packages:
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/updates/8/i386/fedora-release-8-5.noarch.rpm
The default configurations will activate only livna, fedora (aka base) and fedora-updates (aka updates). Without any testing repository.
- Futhermore I checked the "rpm -qa|grep -i ati" and found nothing,
only these packages were present:
startup-notification-devel konversation tomcat-native krb5-workstation startup-notification lohit-fonts-gujarati gutenprint-foomatic liberation-fonts foomatic
That's all I have.
So, there is no freak unofficial ati driver. Do the same for fglrx driver.
# rpm -qa|grep fglrx
And remove them.
Now that you removed all this strange repositories, let's repair this with the original ati package and X11 drivers.
# yum install xorg-x11-drv-ati xorg-x11-drivers
!!! I said to remove anything that looks like an ati driver, because you removed the original driver, but now, repair the original driver won't give us any problem because the packages came only from Fedora or Livna - so we can trust.
You will know if a file is the original, if a command like the following return "Vendor: Fedora Project":
# rpm -qi xorg-x11-drv-ati
I suppose that know we have repaired every problem created by this repos together. And restored any original driver from your Fedora installation.
Let's install the proprietary "fglrx" from livna:
# yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx kmod-fglrx
You will find additional informations about livna drivers here:
http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/LivnaSwitcher
I tried "yum install kmod-fglrx" once more and got the same message.
I've never created a rpm package from ATI installer nether used any pre-compiled driver other than livna or old atrpms. I suppose that after this lines you will have a clear installation of Fedora original X11 drivers and livna together.
Hi Heitor,
Before I make something wrong and for prevent some misunderstanding, let me just "synchronize" with you ^_^, and don't worry about your ENG, it's not my native too ^_^
I know you wasted too much time on me, but I would like to get some step by step explanation, I mean exact commands etc, you'll see this when you'll read my questions about your guide lines.
I'm appreciating you a lot for every info you gave me till now.
Anyway:
Step 1
As I said before, I have only these repos remained in /etc/yum.repos.d/ (after I erased a couple):
adobe-linux-i386.repo fedora.repo livna.repo kde-redhat.repo fedora-updates.repo fedora-install-media.repo <--- not sure need to check this once more. fedora-updates-testing.repo <---- I erased this one for sure.
Every .repo file is a text file. If you created then, thats ok.
I took those repos from fedorafaq as you said.
I suppose you have installed them with this line [from fedorafaq]
Yes indeed. :))
Step 2
You will find 3 sections, the first section is [fedora] and is enabled (enabled=1). To remove a repo, you need to set enabled=1 in every section you are disabling. But "don't remove the files".
Mistyping? Did you mean "enabled=0"?
What do I need to do here? Just to disable all repos that have remained in "/etc/yum.repos.d/"? But do not erase files itself? Is so, what command I need to use? Is it "vi" or there are some other commands for editing files at console?
Step 3
I really don't like this approach, because this repos, sometimes, don't work together. To clear this, remove the package "yum-fedorafaq" installed from http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum. Or this file will be garbage inside you RPM database.
Does it mean to erase "yum.conf" file or those repos I mentioned above?
Step 4
To repair livna and fedora repos [specially fedora-updates], download and reinstall the following packages: http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/updates/8/i386/fedora-release-8-5.noarch.rpm
The default configurations will activate only livna, fedora (aka base) and fedora-updates (aka updates). Without any testing repository.
What is exact command for this? Will it bring back all the "true" repos:
fedora-development.repo Fedora-install-media.repo fedora.repo fedora-updates.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo
+ livna.repo?
At this point I need some more explanation (reference to recourse) on how to get repos without using "fedorafaq" and why is it not so good and what about yum.conf file....
Step 5
The default configurations will activate only livna, fedora (aka base) and fedora-updates (aka updates). Without any testing repository.
Does it relate to "yum.conf" too?
Step 6
# rpm -qa|grep fglrx And remove them.
Got it by 100% shall check. :)))
Step 7
Now that you removed all this strange repositories, let's repair this with the original ati package and X11 drivers. # yum install xorg-x11-drv-ati xorg-x11-drivers
Looks like all good at this point. But! When I removed "xorg-x11-drv-ati" it has removed "xorg-x11-drv" too. Why has it happen?
Step 8
You will know if a file is the original, if a command like the following return "Vendor: Fedora Project": # rpm -qi xorg-x11-drv-ati
You mean, that by using this command I'll see if there a true package?
Step 9
I suppose that know we have repaired every problem created by this repos together. And restored any original driver from your Fedora installation.
Let's install the proprietary "fglrx" from livna:
# yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx kmod-fglrx
See no problem at this point. understood 100%
Once again tnx a lot for your attention.
Ivan.
Let's go!
I'm not a native english speaker [=brazilian], so something can look strange, but i'll give my best.
Ok then... I tried all that you said, but with no changes, I got the same error.
- At "/etc/yum.repos.d/ I found these files:
adobe-linux-i386.repo atrpms.repo
...
planetccrma.repo rpmforge.repo
I've removed these: fedora-updates.repo|atrpms.repo|jpackage.repo|livna-devel.repo|livna-testing.repo|planetccrma.repo|rpmforge.repo
Every .repo file is a text file. If you created then, thats ok. If you don't know why atrpms, planetccrma or rpmforge are at /etc/yum.repos.d, you have a problem.
Let's try fedora.repo:
You will find 3 sections, the first section is [fedora] and is enabled (enabled=1). To remove a repo, you need to set enabled=1 in every section you are disabling. But "don't remove the files".
This repo files comes with Fedora:
fedora-development.repo Fedora-install-media.repo fedora.repo fedora-updates.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo
Some unofficial .rpm packages from atrpms, livna or www.fedorafaq.org will give you additional .repo files.
The Unofficial Fedora FAQ will give you:
/etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/kde-redhat.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/planetccrma.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
I suppose you have installed them with this line [from fedorafaq]:
# rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
I really don't like this approach, because this repos, sometimes, don't work together.
To clear this, remove the package "yum-fedorafaq" installed from http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum. Or this file will be garbage inside you RPM database.
To repair livna and fedora repos [specially fedora-updates], download and reinstall the following packages:
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/updates/8/i386/fedora-release-8-5.noarch.rpm
The default configurations will activate only livna, fedora (aka base) and fedora-updates (aka updates). Without any testing repository.
- Futhermore I checked the "rpm -qa|grep -i ati" and found nothing,
only these packages were present:
startup-notification-devel konversation tomcat-native krb5-workstation startup-notification lohit-fonts-gujarati gutenprint-foomatic liberation-fonts foomatic
That's all I have.
So, there is no freak unofficial ati driver. Do the same for fglrx driver.
# rpm -qa|grep fglrx
And remove them.
Now that you removed all this strange repositories, let's repair this with the original ati package and X11 drivers.
# yum install xorg-x11-drv-ati xorg-x11-drivers
!!! I said to remove anything that looks like an ati driver, because you removed the original driver, but now, repair the original driver won't give us any problem because the packages came only from Fedora or Livna - so we can trust.
You will know if a file is the original, if a command like the following return "Vendor: Fedora Project":
# rpm -qi xorg-x11-drv-ati
I suppose that know we have repaired every problem created by this repos together. And restored any original driver from your Fedora installation.
Let's install the proprietary "fglrx" from livna:
# yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx kmod-fglrx
You will find additional informations about livna drivers here:
I tried "yum install kmod-fglrx" once more and got the same message.
I've never created a rpm package from ATI installer nether used any pre-compiled driver other than livna or old atrpms. I suppose that after this lines you will have a clear installation of Fedora original X11 drivers and livna together.