Comments on: How To: Install ATI Catalyst (fglrx) Drivers

By: Fedora 12 + HD5770 + RAID 0 = Fail! - Foros de CHW

Fedora 12 + HD5770 + RAID 0 = Fail! - Foros de CHW — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:25:12 +0000

[...] El pc es el que tengo en mi perfil . Se agradece la ayuda! —- Update: Segui esta guia: How To: Install ATI Catalyst (fglrx) Drivers | Fedora Linux y quede pegado en el paso 4, me arroja el sgte error en el archivo fglrx-install.log [...]

By: clavan

clavan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:57:25 +0000

Still waiting for a good/working ATI drivers Fedora Core 12
for my Toshiba Satellite A300
Aaaaghh,..

I wanna have a working Compiz desktop :-/

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:50:15 +0000

Same problem for me. F12 with 10-2 drivers. After install I rebooted to find the problem. Jumping into console reveals a fatal server error trying startx as root “no screens found”. Still no solution found for this?

By: S.

S. — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:08:54 +0000

Thanks for this. Got my 4870 running on FC11 no problem at all @ 3203 fps testing with fgl_glxgears.

By: John C

John C — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:33:43 +0000

Here’s the killer bit… the new 10.2 ATI proprietary drivers added “UpdateSpriteForScreen” function call for Xorg 7.4. But the drivers also contain modules for older Xorg servers that do not call UpdateSpriteForScreen.

If the drivers are supposedly designed for the new X server, what the heck version Xorg 7,4 did ATI use?

By: John Willaford

John Willaford — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:46:36 +0000

Can i downgrade Xorg to get FGLRX to work on Fedora 12?

By: cyrus7580

cyrus7580 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:03:41 +0000

This is kind of bugging me bc it seems like I (and Mx) are very close to having this working; the thing compiles and installs with almost no error. It’s only at the login screen after reboot that we’re hitting a snag and the screen goes black.

Let me ask this: When Fedora is booting and you have the blue screen with the white area that fills up with the logo… is that X running there or is that a special separate graphical rendering or some sort? When exactly does X initialize in the bootup process? I’m trying to understand whether, for us, X is starting and then dying or just not starting at all. And if it’s dying, why is it dying? Does it have something to do with the login prompt?

By: Bub

Bub — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:47:11 +0000

As an FYI – If the dkms package is installed, the Catalyst installation seems to use it and the install log file is cleaner.

By: mxyzptlk2063

mxyzptlk2063 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:56:20 +0000

Hi cyrus7580,

I have installed ATI Catalyst 10.1 driver on Fedora 12 x86_64 with the very same result as you described.

BR,
Mx

By: 007ace

007ace — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:53:32 +0000

Ive got F12 atm, and Im having the same problem as taf2.
Gonna keep looking but Im going to assume its an incompatability with the gcc program. i noticed a lot of warnings in my log.