ATI OpenGL driver only works with an FC4 "everything" installation

[Stanton Finley]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:59 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 17:50 -0700 schrieb Stanton Finley:
> > I've been doing installation tests on a laptop with onboard ATI
> > Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) video. I have found
> > that when I install the latest driver
> > (ati-driver-installer-8.20.8-i386.run) the graphics acceleration feature
> > does not take and "fglrxinfo" defaults back to the Mesa drivers *except*
> > when I do an "everything" install on FC4. When I install "everything" it
> > works and I get the proper message
> > 
> > display: :0.0  screen: 0
> > OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
> > OpenGL renderer string: RADEON XPRESS 200M Series SW TCL Generic
> > OpenGL version string: 1.3.5519 (X4.3.0-8.20.8)
> > 
> > 
> > when I do the "fglrxinfo" command. This happens even if I install kernel-devel and gcc.
> > 
> > I'm thinking there must be some program(s) that I get with the "everything" install that makes it possible to install the ATI driver. If anyone knows what it is please let me know so I can just install that program rather than the "everything" install.
> 
> Yeah there is something that needs to be installed -- but I can't
> remember what it was. Yum will install it if you use the ati-fglrx
> packages from livna; to use those on a clean up2date system just do
> 
> # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release4.rpm
> # yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r)
> 
> You can also download the rpm from livna and and try to install it on a
> clean system directly with rpm -- it will tell you what deps are missing
> and probably are needed by the package from ati, too. 
> 
> HTH
> 
> CU
> thl
> 
> -- 
> Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>
> 
Got it! Acting on a hunch I added compat-libstdc++-33 to the mix. I
remembered that there were problems installing programs such a
RealPlayer and Adobe Reader without these libraries in an FC4
installation that was less than "everything". I have included revised
instructions for installing the driver in the ATI OpenGL section at
http://stanton-finley.net/HP_Pavilion_ZE2108WM.html. The command
"fglrxinfo" now produces

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON XPRESS 200M Series SW TCL Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.5519 (X4.3.0-8.20.8)

and high FPS rates are produced with the "glxgears" and "fgl_glxgears"
commands.

Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/