fedora-list-admin(a)redhat.com wrote:
>>>display: :0.0 screen: 0
>>>OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project:
www.mesa3d.org
>>>OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
>>>OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
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>>>-Don
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>>There's a major problem - those mesa drivers need to go away. Look
>>over the thread at
linuxquestions.org that I posted before and see if
>>there are any of those steps you did not complete. The full install
>>step is not necessary, just something I did out of frustration.
>>(http://linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116223).
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>Just struck me - of course you have the mesa drivers loaded, according
>to you XFreeconfig, the radeon drivers are commented out, i assume to
>relieve the lockup issue you were having. Earlier I saw you had tried
>to install the fire gl drivers and got the error about a conflict with
>mesa, try to install the firegl drivers rpm with the --force option,
>then run the fglrxconfig to create a new XFreeconfig file for you (or
>do it manually)...that should help you get some meaningful
>information in your XFree Error log if there is in fact still a
>problem. For me with the 9700 pro (only 2D support provided by
>fedora) things didn't really start to click until after a kernel
>recompile with agpart and radeon as loadable modules. Unfortunately
>I have to work from memory here as the box I did this on was for a
>friend and I don't have ready access to it.
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I'm assuming that the "you" in your post is me, as I was having lockup
problems.
I don't recall trying to install firegl drivers; the XF86Config file I
posted at the start has been superceded. The file itself was either deleted
or modified and saved as XF86Config-4. I removed (rpm -e) the Mesa drivers;
what's there now was installed by the ATI rpm itself.
Considering the number of things I needed to do to get things working, I'd
reluctant to recompile the kernel. Perhaps I'll try it anyway, both the
current stock version with the modules and a 2.6.1 version. But it took me
so long to get sound on this machine (whine)...
-Don
Understood - It's unfortunate that ATI doesn't provide nearly the level
of support that Nvidia does to *nix users. here's a great link for a
kernel compile, it's for redhat 8,9 but you should be able to adapt it
to FC1 without much trouble.
Best of luck, I nearly pulled my hair out, but in the end the results
were well worth it.
Thomas