ATI Radeon Pro, X11, system lockup

[Thomas Reed]

Don Levey wrote:

>fedora-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>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posted at the start has been superceded.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.
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>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)...
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> -Don
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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.  
http://linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91503

Best of luck, I nearly pulled my hair out, but in the end the results 
were well worth it.

Thomas