Fedora 10 Installfest - ATI x1250 on Fedora fails :(

[Eric]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I just held Fedora 10 Installfest on which there were some laptops with ATI x1250 video chip. I have mostly experience with Intel video cards which run smoothly on Fedora.
> This ATI x1250 card worked poorly with default Xorg drivers :( It was slow, some artefcts emerged, video was slow in fullscreen... lots of issues.
>
> We upgraded Xorg and kernel but that didn't help.
>
> Then I enabled rpmfusion repo and installed ATI proprietary fglrx driver. After init 3 and then init 5 it failed to launch X server :(
> Reboot - and still the same....
>
> Reboot into old kernel without fglrx - X starts with Xorg driver but still old issues are present.
>
> DId anybody get ati x1250 to run ok with defualt Xorg drivers? How?
>
> Did anybody get ati x1250 to run ok with propretary ATI fglrx drivers? How?
>
> Thank you in advance.

I have got fglrx driver run ok on F10, but my video card is x300. I
followed the instructions in fedoraforum.org:
 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=155503

Here is a list of what I have done:

su -
1. rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

2. yum install akmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs.i386

3. mv /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img.backup

4. mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img  `uname -r`

5. add this "nopat" to the kernel arguments in /boot/grub/grub.conf

6. reboot

Wish it will help.

Eric

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