Error while installing ATI Radeon proprietory driver fglrx on FC2

[Kam Leo]

On 6/25/05, Clive at Rational <clive at rational-communications.com> wrote:
> This posting is a new perspective on
> 
> Re: FC3 continually hanging or crashing machine. . OK
> when X not running. OK in FC2
> 
> I have had problems (machine freezing / locking up)
> running FC3 (kernel 2.6.11) on a noname laptop with an
> ATI Radeon Mobility M9 card. Lockup only happened
> while X was running - no problems in command-line
> mode. No problems running command line or X in FC2
> (kernel 2.6.10).
> 
> Earlier suggestions and other browsing leaves me at
> the point the freeze maybe due to the FC3 ATI video
> driver (I have seen this freeze problem on an IBM T21
> in the past - and the problem was the video driver)
> 
> I downloaded and installed the latest ATI Radeon
> drivers from the ATI Website
> 
> No improvement in FC3.
> 
> I have removed the Mesa / OPenGL package provided for
> Fedora and replaced with the ATI provided package and
> I get the problem listed at end "Invalid module
> format".
> 
> 1. Is the "Invalid module format" problem at the end
> of this posting serious?
> 
> glxgears runs OK under FC2 / X with this ATI fglrx
> package installed.
> 
> 2. What has changed between FC2 and FC3 that could be
> the source of this ATI video problem (assuming it IS a
> video problem). Basic video support (I don't know
> about testing 3D) seemed fine in FC2. So the problem I
> am experiencing in FC3 must be fixable ... No ??
> 
> 3. Another thing to throw in - but probably unrelated
> - and less important to me
> 
> The ATI package installs a utility
> (/usr/X11R6/bin/fireglcontrolpanel) on the Control
> panel to manage some of the ATI card parameters. When
> this is run directly on the linux machine, a dialog
> opens up that shows three tabs:
> 
> 3.1 Information, Dual-Screen, (Gamma Adjustment)
> 
> When I select the same "ATI Control" icon from a VNC
> session, the window displays the eror rmessage
> 
> "Driver does not support X11 FireGL extensions. Panel
> components will display only partially"
> 
> Then a window appears with two tabs
> 
> 3.2 An information screen with different (limited)
> info from Information in 3.1 above, and , TV Out
> control.
> 
> Weird !!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Clive
> 
> **************************************
> 
> [root at Linux28GHz ~]# apt-get install
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 66 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 377kB of archives.
> After unpacking 413kB of additional disk space will be
> used.
> Get:1 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL 6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at [377kB]
> Fetched 377kB in 6s (57.9kB/s)
> Committing changes...
> Preparing...
> ########################################### [100%]
>    1:xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
> ########################################### [100%]
> Done.
> 
> [root at Linux28GHz ~]# cd /downloads/Fedora3/ATI\ Linux\
> driver/
> [root at Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# ls
> ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run
> fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm
> [root at Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -ivh --test
> fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...
> ########################################### [100%]
>         file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install
> of fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1 conflicts with file from
> package xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at
> 
> [root at Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -ev --test
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at
> [root at Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -e
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at
> [root at Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# ls
> ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run
> fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm
> [root at Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -ivh --test
> fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...
> ########################################### [100%]
> [root at Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]# rpm -ivh
> fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm Preparing...
>     ########################################### [100%]
>    1:fglrx_6_8_0
> ########################################### [100%]
> FATAL: Error inserting fglrx
> (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.771_FC2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko):
> Invalid module format
> [root at Linux28GHz ATI Linux driver]#
> 
> 

Try the kernel-module-fglrx rpm from http://rpm.livna.org.  You will
have to find one that matches your kernel.