ATI DRIVER installation problems - asking for help.

[Heitor Moraes]

xorg-x11-drv-fglrx is provided by livna and works together with
kmod-fglrx (livna too).

I'm using this driver without any problem.

Let's try this:

1) Look at /etc/yum.repo.d/ to see your active repositories;

2) You won't have any conflict using only base, updates, adobe, google
and livna; (enough for 95% of Fedora users)

3) Use "rpm -qa|grep -i ati" to list all packages with "ati" tag and
remove anything that looks like a ATI driver;

4) Reinstall fglrx and pay attention if the packages really came from livna.


On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, bravo_elf <bravo.elf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys!
>
>  Ok that's my story (its a little bit long but describes all the
>  picture):
>
>  Once upon a time I decided to install ATI driver on my Acer TravelMate
>  4602WLMI, which works with ATI Mobility Radeon X600.
>
>  So I went to ATI site and downloaded linux driver for my FC8.
>
>  I installed it on my laptop, but something got wrong, as I can remember the
>  problem was caused by version of kernel, it wasn't suitable or
>  something like that.
>
>  Since I'm new to linux and don't know how handle that kind of stuff I've decided
>  simply to remove it from laptop and look around for some easier way
>  of installation.
>
>  I found this site: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon
>
>  Which explains how exactly I can do it:
>
>  "yum install kmod-fglrx"
>
>  and then enable 3D support:
>
>  "init 3"
>  "fglrx-config-display enable"
>  "reboot"
>
>  The process has started and at the end yum returned me a message:
>  "Error: ati-x11-drv conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-fglrx"
>
>  At this point some feeling of "not completely un-installed previous
>  driver" started to rise inside me.
>
>  That feeling  made me to check if there some files (packages) left at
>  the system. After checking my yumex I found a "xorg-x11-drv-ati"
>  package, and removed it. At this point the "catch" appeared.
>  Yum has removed not only "xorg-x11-drv-ati" but "xorg-x11-drivers"
>  too.
>  Somehow it looked nice to me cause my thought was:"now I haven't any
>  package that can interfere my installation.
>
>  I rebooted my laptop and got into "init 3" black screen. Of course I
>  saw the message that told about "no x11 drivers installed".
>
>  I tried "yum install kmod-fglrx" command one more time, and was very
>  surprised when I saw the same error about driver confrontation.
>
>  So now I have init 3 mode for work and have no ATI driver installed
>  :))
>
>  Please if anyone knows how fix this issue I will be glad to hear the
>  answer.
>
>  Also if you don't mind, I would like to know which steps (that I made)
>  were lame. Where did I wrong?
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ivan.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  mailto:bravo.elf at gmail.com
>
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