ATI's Linux drivers win... er... loose less

[esteel]

A application should never be able to OOPS a kernel.. sounds more like a gfx driver problem.

[natrob87]

I've been beating my brains out trying to get 3d working right on FC10 at all.. I have a Toshiba laptop running the ATI 3100 Chipset. The ATI official driver just makes X bomb... Never recovers. I wanted to test Nexuiz on FC10 as well as Windows. Anyone have any tips on how to get my 3100 running on FC10?

[MRB 255]

If you're using version 9.2 of ATI's drivers, they seem to be majorly majorly bugged. Version 9.1 still works for me, and 9.3 is out (haven't tried it though). 9.2 seems to have problems interacting with hardware, it makes X hang when I swich between battery and AC power, and refuses to recognize my card's power management features. Downgrading to 9.1 fixed all this for me.

BTW, if the installer fails to compile the kernel module (due to the gpl incompatable symbols), I found a workaround that doesn't involve recompiling the kernel. For some reason, the installer plops all of the source files in /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod. Go to this folder and open up firegl_public.c as root, and change MODULE_LICENSE to GPL. Then run make.sh, drop down one directory, and run make_install.sh. That last step might need to be done in text only mode, running "init 3" as root should do the trick.

edit: took too long to post my edit, I added in that last paragraph before I saw your post

[natrob87]

I think it's prolly 9.2.... I just tried downloading it from ATI's site. Have you tried the OpenSource driver for ATI yet? ATI release a bunch of documentation, and the Xorg group has been making a OSS driver for ATI. I couldn't get it to compile though.