ATI Radeon Pro, X11, system lockup

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 18.01.2004 schrieb Don Levey um 19:05:
> I've checked the archives, and not found anything useful (just two hits
> searching on "Radeon 9600 Pro"), so if this has been covered before I
> apologise.
> 
> I have the above-mentioned card, and am having a devil of a time getting
> it to work properly.  When selecting the driver that comes with FC1 for
> Radeon 9600 Pro, my system locks up hard during the login process. 
> Normally I'm able to enter username/password, but it freezes before
> getting the desktop.  If I try to specifically select a desktop
> environment (Gnome, KDE), I get a lockup in that dialog itself.
> 
> As I had done a number of things immediately before this first happened,
> I did not immediately realise that it was the video driver itself which
> had done this.  A fortunately-timed kudzu run somehow removed the Radeon
> driver and reinstalled the generic VESA, at which point things worked
> again.
> 
> The relevant portions of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file follow:
> 
> 	Section "Device"
> 		Identifier  "Videocard0"
> 		Driver      "vesa"
> 		VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> 		BoardName   "VESA driver (generic)"
> 	EndSection
> 	
> 	#Section "Device"
> 	#	Identifier  "Videocard0"
> 	#	Driver      "radeon"
> 	#	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> 	#	BoardName   "ATI Radeon 9600 Pro"
> 	#EndSection
> 
> As you can see, I commented out the offending portion but kept it in for
> historical purposes. 
> 
> The ATI website has a driver for this board, one for each of the
> following versions of XFree86: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3.  It appears I am using
> 4.3, so I downloaded the corresponding RPM.  Attempting to install the
> RPM, however, gives the following error:
> 	rpm -Uvh fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm
> 	Preparing...  ########################################### [100%]
>         file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of
> 		fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0 conflicts with file from package
> 		XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42

The ATI driver comes with his own GL libraries and so it conflicts with the already Mesa-libGL package from XFree. It's the same with the NVidia driver. Just remove the XFree86-Mesa-libGL. You need to rpm -e --nodeps.

> I was not able to find anything on their website to address this issue. 
> I've heard somewhere that I shouldn't bother with the ATI-supplied
> drivers in any event, so perhaps I'm not too heartbroken.  However,
> checking up on the above I don't understand the conflict; yum tells me
> that my XFree86-Mesa-libGL is both installed and the latest version.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to resolve this, and/or pointers to where I might
> look?  I'd hate to think that I need to boot into Windows to get better
> video playback, etc, not to mention the other features this card
> supports.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
>  -Don 

Alexander


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