Comments on: ATI Driver Trouble Under Fedora 8

By: Coolcat

Coolcat — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:31:14 +0000

Oh, its a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card.

By: Coolcat

Coolcat — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:28:35 +0000

Hi,
I have some artifacts, too. Im using F7 with kernel 2.6.23.1-21.fc7.
If I open “ATI Catalyst Control Panel” the artifacts disappear for some time.

xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.42.3-6.lvn7
kernel-headers-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kmod-fglrx-8.42.3-4.2.6.23.1_21.fc7

Coolcat

By: Sean Gray

Sean Gray — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:56:31 +0000

After a long night of migrating my nx6125 with FC7 x86_64 to the 6715b with FC8 x86_64, here is how I got my dual head display working with no problems.
1. Executed ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run with the defaults.
2. Executed aticonfig -f –initial=dual-head –screen-layout=right –resolution=0,1680×1050 –resolution=1,1024×768

My only annoyance is the gui control panel is non operational.

Hope it helps…

By: Peregrine

Peregrine — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:59:31 +0000

@Lonnie Olson

You’re right, it’s the driver, not Fedora.

You have a good idea about backing off to the earlier version, which has been more stable for a lot of people. However, that’s a little tougher for some folks on Fedora who use the Livna driver packages, as they don’t have the older version being built for the newer kernels. That’s not much of an issue for me, as I could simply download their SRPM (if it’s still available) and rebuild it for the current kernel. I would then have to prevent YUM from trying to update that package, however, which isn’t that hard.

By: Peregrine

Peregrine — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:50:41 +0000

@dragossh

I’ve finished searching through Red Hat’s bugzilla and haven’t found anything that would apply. Still, there could be an existing bug report that would, but that’s why there’s a dup-marking ability in Bugzilla :) . So, I’ll be filing that bug later today or tomorrow.

Also, I did discover that switching to a virtual terminal (CTRL+ALT+F4, for example) then back to X (ALT+F7, typically) “fixed” those artifacts, but only temporarily. They kept coming back on my box. Thanks for the comment on that, as I’d forgot to put into my post. Mia culpa.

However, after booting into Windows (Vista Business 64-bit) last night, I’m not getting any of those artifacts at all today under Linux. I’ll have to assume that something the Windows driver did has “reset” the card such that the Linux driver isn’t having any more problems. Goes to figure, eh?

By: Lonnie Olson

Lonnie Olson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:40:45 +0000

This isn’t exclusive to Fedora. I am running that same 8.42.3 ATI driver on Ubuntu 7.10 and see the same thing. The only real difference I see, is that I do have Desktop Effects on.

If you can I suggest rolling the driver back to 8.37.6 if you can.

I installed the 8.42.3 driver to get support for AIGLX, but it made my X session too unstable. I am not back to using XGL and it is more stable, but still not yet as stable as it was under the 8.37.6 driver

By: Dragossh

Dragossh — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:34:53 +0000

Also, pressing Alt+F1 and then Alt+F7 removes those artifacts.

By: Dragossh

Dragossh — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:20:53 +0000

I experience those artifacts too with a LCD (1280×1024@75Hz) and the ATI proprietary driver. With the “radeon” driver everything was fine.

You should fill that bug report ;)

By: Peregrine

Peregrine — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:46:01 +0000

@Clint Savage

I tried grabbing the radeonhd driver package for F7 from the openSUSE build service website (after some Google searching), but I (apparently) haven’t figured out all the other parts needed to get it to start, I just got black screens with no mouse and no responsiveness to CTRL+ALT commands (and it looked like it locked things up once, too).

I also took a look at running with the avivo driver, but no luck getting the config to work, yet.

BTW, the radeonhd driver docs do list my particular GPU chip as supported.

By: Clint Savage

Clint Savage — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:42:58 +0000

Don’t do it. I’ve run into similar problems on my laptop. However, there is supposedly a new open source driver already out called radeonhd. It didn’t work for me, maybe it will work for you?

Cheers,

Herlo