ATI DRIVER installation problems - asking for help.

bravo_elf bravo.elf at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 15:32:46 UTC 2008


Hello Heitor,

Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 6:35:12 AM, you wrote:

> 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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Ok then... I tried all that you said, but with no changes, I got the
same error.

1) At "/etc/yum.repos.d/ I found these files:

adobe-linux-i386.repo
atrpms.repo
fedora-development.repo
fedora-install-media.repo
fedora.repo
fedora-updates.repo
fedora-updates-testing.repo
freshrpms.repo
jpackage.repo
kde-redhat.repo
livna-devel.repo
livna.repo
livna-testing.repo
planetccrma.repo
rpmforge.repo

I've removed these:
fedora-updates.repo|atrpms.repo|jpackage.repo|livna-devel.repo|livna-testing.repo|planetccrma.repo|rpmforge.repo

2) Futhermore I checked the "rpm -qa|grep -i ati" and found nothing,
only these packages were present:

startup-notification-devel
konversation
tomcat-native
krb5-workstation
startup-notification
lohit-fonts-gujarati
gutenprint-foomatic
liberation-fonts
foomatic

That's all I have.

I tried "yum install kmod-fglrx" once more and got the same message.

Have any ideas?


Ivan.

mailto:bravo.elf at gmail.com




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