fglrx and Fedora 7 works!

[Dotan Cohen]

On 04/06/07, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu> wrote:
>    I can confirm that the following does allow the fglrx
> drivers to work with Fedora 7. Download the prebuilt binary
> for xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.36.5-1.lvn6.x86_64.rpm from
> rpm.livna.org's fc6 archives. Download the Fedora Core 6
> package for xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6.x86_64.rpm.
> Download the fglrx-kmod-8.36.5-3.2.6.20_1.2952.fc6.src.rpm
> from rpm.livna.org.
>
> 1) Install the old xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6
> and xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.36.5-1.lvn6 packages from the FC6 archives
> with --force.
> 2) Use an appropriate xorg.conf in /etc/X11 such as...
>
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "single head configuration"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "fbdevhw"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "dri"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "extmod"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option      "AIGLX" "off"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "fglrx"
>         Option      "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
>         Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1600x1200" "1600x1024" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x96
> 0" "1280x800" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1152x768" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "640
> x480" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
>         Group        0
>         Mode         0666
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
>         Option      "Composite" "0"
> EndSection
>
> 3) Reboot and verify that the fglrx drivers are loading properly
> (the kernel module will be missing).
> 4) Install the fglrx-kmod-8.36.5-3.2.6.20_1.2952.fc6.src.rpm
> package, edit the fglrx-kmod.spec file to have...
>
> %{!?kversion: %define kversion 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7}
>
> and rebuild the package to create kmod-fglrx-8.36.5-3.2.6.21_1.3194.fc7.x86_64.rpm.
> You will need kernel-devel installed for this step. After installing the
> new kmod-fglrx package and rebooting, the fglrx kernel module should load
> and full DRI support should be functional. The resulting X windows seems
> quite stable using pymol.
>             Jack

You should probably post this to bugzilla and the devel list as well.
You'll save somebody a lot of work. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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