Comments on: Info: ATI Drivers 9.8 Doesnt Work with Fedora 11 (2.6.29+)

By: paul

paul — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 06:07:29 +0000

sheesh, what a bunch of rigamarole! One day, I will get a new video card and stop having so much trouble struggling with outdated hardware. Life goes on.

Ok, well thank you for all the effort. You are awesome.

By: vba

vba — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:06:31 +0000

Your tutorial is incorrect, ati 9.11 driver not works for hd 3400 driver (F11/F12). Ati has made one driver for all their video chipsets and finally it became a lot of sh*t.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:30:40 +0000

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By: vini

vini — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:10:53 +0000

where i can download mobility radeon hd 3400 driver

By: Kulbir Saini

Kulbir Saini — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:00:58 +0000

Follow the instructions on this post.

By: Kulbir Saini

Kulbir Saini — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:59:26 +0000

Sorry for replying late but I have written a complete step by step howto here.

By: Lutherlice

Lutherlice — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:55:47 +0000

I have rebooted my system over four times, but on the fifth I got to login for about four seconds and then it went black. It is as if the more I cycle the laptop the further it gets to booting up. Also do I need to download grub or do I press a F-key to get to it.

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:12:07 +0000

I just realised I did a kernel upgrade after blacklisting radeon and drm modules, so initrd have been regenerated, even if not by me. So I suggest you just rebuild your initrd after adding radeon and drm to blacklist.
I just found a post from someone making a recap of everything he did to have it working: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=228689
hope that’ll help 😉

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:56:04 +0000

well, it’s working perfectly for me, but I’ve been through several tryouts before having it working so I may have forgot a few things.
Some sites suggest to rebuild initrd, which I didn’t do so I don’t think that’s the problem.
did you add radeon and drm to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist ? (fglrx driver uses it’s own drm provider, not the drm kmod, so you have to rmmod/blacklist it)
By the way, one of my last try involved using rpmfusion cvs to build the kmod-catalyst rpm and then install it, which may have done some more steps which I’m unaware of. You can either do it yourself by using the rpmfusion cvs, or I may send you the generated rpm if you want, and if it’s of any use for you (It’s for kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.i686.PAE tho)
Didn’t try yet with 2.6.30 kernel tho, did you try with a fedora one from updates-testing or building yourself one from kernel.org ?

By: Pierre

Pierre — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:15:34 +0000

Thanks, didn’t work for 2.6.30 (can’t install module…) but kinda worked for 2.6.29. The problems were :
1. unable to blacklist radeon, forced to do rmmod radeon everytime I restarted, not sure rmmod drm is useful after the installation.
2. unable to run any information software like glxinfo, fgl_glxgears
3. it was like kwin (i’m on kde) didn’t work, i couldn’t see the border of the window and the menubar. Emerald+compiz didn’t start.
4. i couldn’t log out correctly, a freeze happened when i tried, each time.
5. aticonfig –initial had a seg fault, it shouldn’t right ?
Could you confirm you didn’t forget anything ? Does it work perfectly for you ? If so, do you have any idea what i’m facing ? My best guess would be that i’m running the 2.6.29 kernel on a fedora 11 which had the 2.6.30 installed, even if it works with radeon… Any idea about the 2.6.30 build problem ? Any body in the same case as me ?