Getting ATI Driver Fails

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Thu May 12 17:15:05 UTC 2005


Am Donnerstag, den 12.05.2005, 08:22 +0200 schrieb François Patte:
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> Thorsten Leemhuis a écrit :
> | Am Samstag, den 07.05.2005, 18:01 +0200 schrieb Maciej:
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> |>I have tried to install ATI drivers for my ATI Mobility 9700 but without
> |>success. Any ideas what I should do now? Should I update my kernel?
> |
> | Yes -- but not to 2.6.11-1.14 (see
> | http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404#c12
> | )
> 
> I came to this link and got the 2.6.11-1.20_FC3.i686 kernel and the ati
> kernel module for this kernel from:
> http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fedorarpms/REPO.lvn/ati/
> 
> Both are easily installed, but xorg is not working with this kernel: the
> computer is totally freezed. This is the problem of the kernel because I
> tried too after removing the ati driver.
> 
> Is there a solution to use the ati driver with the current FC3 kernel?
> Because, as suggested below:

Sorry, I don't know what's wrong there. But it works for me and a lot of
other people with this kernel.

> |
> | 2.6.10-1.770 should work
> |
> 
> I did not find this kernel!

Ask google ;-) Use for example:

http://frontier.eas.asu.edu/updates/heidelberg/i686/
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>




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