[calzoneman]

Hello,
I've just installed Fedora 13 on my computer (finally replaced FC11), and I'm having some issues with getting the correct driver for my graphics card. I've installed the package "mesa-dri-drivers-experimental" as suggested by some of the threads I've read off of google, but I'm not sure how to use those drivers, and if they are used automatically then it still isn't working properly. When I go to System->Preferences->Desktop Effects it gives me an error saying it needs 3D acceleration so I know something is going wrong with my driver. Does anyone know how to get these drivers or the proprietary drivers to work?

Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
3GB Ram
HD 5770
300GB HDD
Fedora 13 (just installed)

I would be greatful for any help with this; if you think your post will help me then please post it, but I don't want posts saying "LOL FEDORA SUCKS USE [INSERT OS NAME HERE]"

Thanks,
calzoneman

[Elecbullet]

I just gave up on the ATI drivers and X.org suddenly began working perfectly for me, so I just used that.

[PvtCupcakes]

The Radeon 5000's don't have 3D acceleration in the open source driver. If you want 3D, install the RPM Fusion repository. The closed source driver is in there, but I don't remember the name.

[calzoneman]

PvtCupcakes posted:

The Radeon 5000's don't have 3D acceleration in the open source driver. If you want 3D, install the RPM Fusion repository. The closed source driver is in there, but I don't remember the name.

Forgot to mention, I downloaded the proprietary driver from amd.com and I tried to install it, but I get the following error:

==================================================
 ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager 
==================================================
which: no XFree86 in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/calvin/bin)

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686:; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro

Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.dLrgEB

Upon searching some online I found that someone fixed it by changing the xorg.conf drivername to "radeon", which I have done, but it didn't work for me.

[PvtCupcakes]

You want to use the repository I linked you to.
Enable the repo and run:

yum install kmod-fglrx

[calzoneman]

Thanks for the tip, I installed the repo from the website and ran "yum install kmod-fglrx" but it couldn't find the package:

Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
rpmfusion-free                                           | 2.8 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free/primary_db                                | 304 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates                                   | 2.8 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db                        | 102 kB     00:00     
Setting up Install Process
No package kmod-fglrx available.
Nothing to do

Do I need to restart or anything for it to find the package?

EDIT: I just installed the nonfree repo too but still no luck finding the package

[PvtCupcakes]

Oh, I just remembered that the proprietary Ati driver probably isn't in that repo because it doesn't support Xorg 1.8 and it probably doesn't support Linux 2.6.33 either.

I always forget that the Ati driver only supports ancient versions of X and Linux.

If you really need 3D, I think it's supported in Ubuntu. Fedora packages are too always too new for Ati's driver. But as you can see here, Ati's driver is absolute shit. 3D is about the only thing it does semi-okay. Everything else is going to be horrible for you. Ati doesn't even try with the closed source driver.

Edited:

If I were you, I'd downgrade to a Radeon 4800.
The open source driver can do 3D on those really well. The 5000's aren't up to that level yet.

[calzoneman]

Ok, well thanks for the info; I had read on another site about ATI always being behind, that sucks. Well, that's 1 point for nVidia then, I never had a problem with their driver. I've also read that the 5000 series isn't well supported yet so I'll sit tight and stick to Windows for my 3D apps.

[Pretiacruento]

calzoneman posted:

Ok, well thanks for the info; I had read on another site about ATI always being behind, that sucks. Well, that's 1 point for nVidia then, I never had a problem with their driver. I've also read that the 5000 series isn't well supported yet so I'll sit tight and stick to Windows for my 3D apps.

In my perfect world, ATi makes the VERY BEST video drivers for GNU/Linux distros, thus giving them a huge, _Huge_ advantage over NVidia in the Open Source market...

We can only dream they start paying attention to us and get their shit together :/

[calzoneman]

I've heard it's possible to install the closed-source driver by editing the installer. I've been looking into it. And yes, that would be a perfect world.