Starting Beryl crashs X
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Jan 28 14:51:23 UTC 2007
On 28/01/07, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 12:00 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 27/01/07, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > The machine is supposed to have a ATI x1400 viedo card, but I'm
> > > > not certain that that's what I got (how can I check that).
> > >
> > > as root:
> > > # lspci
> > > or:
> > > # lspci | grep -i ati
> > >
> >
> > Yup, that's what it is:
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > Should I change "vesa" to "radeon"? What else can I do? Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Yes - if X fails, check you have the xorg ati driver installed:
> > > $ yum list *x*ati*
> > > xorg-x11-drv-ati.i386 6.6.3-1.fc6 installed
> > >
> >
> > It is already installed:
> > Installed Packages
> > xorg-x11-drv-ati.i386 6.6.3-1.fc6 installed
>
> Here's what Stanton Finley wrote:
>
> If you are using an ATI video card or chipset type the following in the
> root terminal:
> yum -y --enablerepo livna install kmod-fglrx
> Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. (If you have
> an smp kernel use "yum -y --enablerepo livna install
> kmod-fglrx-smp" instead.) If you get an error with this
> procedure it probably means that your kernel is more recent than
> the kernels for which Livna has built ATI kernel modules. If
> this is the case switch to an older kernel (if you have one) on
> your Fedora boot menu or wait a few days until Livna gets the
> graphics acceleration module rpms built for the most recent
> kernel. When you update your kernel you will have to update your
> ATI driver as well. Do this with a "yum -y --enablerepo livna
> update kmod-fglrx" as root after you have booted into the new
> kernel. (Do not proceed until you have executed the two SELinux
> commands in the paragraph at the bottom of this secton.)
> * If you got a message "FATAL: Could not
> rename /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2111_FC5/modules.dep.temp
> into /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2111_FC5/modules.dep: Permission
> denied" during installation type the following at the root
> prompt:
> mv /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2111_FC5/modules.dep.temp /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2111_FC5/modules.dep
> Hit enter. When you see "overwrite
> `/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2111_FC5/modules.dep'?" type "y" and hit
> enter.
>
> Ole Stanton was never wrong. :) Ric
>
Thanks, Ric, now kmod-fglrx is installed. However, running
"beryl-manager" still crashes X. What should I check?
Dotan Cohen
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