Howto Install ATI Drivers (Mesa 3D DRI Experimental) on Fedora 12 Linux - Comment Page: 1

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Fedora 13 Users check Fedora 13 ATI Drivers Guide » Like all ATI and Fedora users probably already knows, currently AMD's ATI Catalyst 10.2 proprietary Linux display drivers are not working on Fedora 12. That is why I decided to write this guide for those who are fighting with ATI drivers in Fedora. As Fedora 12 release notes says: Improvements for graphics support - Introduces experimental 3D support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards. To try it out, install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. Better support for systems with multiple monitors. So, fortunately, the development of Fedora 12 has already been taken into account, that ATI does not hardly any...

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Vishal
1st March 2010, 8:43 am

Hi,
I saw ur post.My pc having ati radeo xpress200 on board card.I have tried using mesa-dri-drivers-experimental drivers but it doesn’t affect my disply settings.
when i used the command
lxinfo |grep -i “$render\|opengl$” it gives output as

[[email protected] ~]$ glxinfo |grep -i “$render\|opengl$”
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

so what to do to enable ati driver configuration.
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- JR
  1st March 2010, 10:08 am
  Hi Vishal,
  
  I quote my own text:
  As Fedora 12 release notes says: Improvements for graphics support â€“ Introduces experimental 3D support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards.
  
  So, it may be possible that the experimental 3D support mesa-dri-drivers-experimental does not work in any way with ATI Radeon xpress200 card.
  
  What happens if you try run glxgears?
```
glxgears
```
  Reply
  - Vishal
    2nd March 2010, 6:33 pm
    
    whn i tried glxgears it says that
    [[email protected] ~]$ glxgears
    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
    
    and on the top panel it says that
    glx-utils has been crashed
    i have updated it but still it is showing this error
    Reply
    - JR
      4th March 2010, 3:41 pm
      
      Unfortunately, it seems that the Fedora 12 experimental 3D support with mesa-dri-drivers-experimental does not work with ATI Radeon Express 200 cards.
      
      So the only option is probably to wait, that the ATI get someday their proprietary drivers working on Fedora.
      Reply
      - JÃ©
        14th May 2010, 10:55 am
        
        Hi,
        I also have an ATI Radeon Express 200M:
        [[email protected] ~]$ lspci | grep ATI | grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
        
        Unfortunately, even if ATI releases some stable drivers, it wouldn’t work with this hardware. This serie has been listed in the legacy cards… See : http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/9.4
        
        However, I have another question: I get my video card working with fedora12. But here is the output of glxinfo:
        [[email protected] ~]$ glxinfo |grep -i "$render\|opengl$" direct rendering: Yes OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 (RS400 5975) 20090101 NO-TCL DRI2 OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 7.7.1-DEVEL OpenGL extensions:
        
        My DRI is R300, not R600, and OpenGL is 1.5 !! did I missed something in the dependences?
        
        Thanks
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        JR
        14th May 2010, 2:01 pm
        
        Hi JÃ©,
        
        Nice to hear that you get it working. :)
        
        I think this DRI R300 is right, because it depends on your graphic card. More info about DRI’s found here.
        
        What happens if you run glxgears?
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        JÃ©
        14th May 2010, 5:56 pm
        
        Hi,
        First, to eliminate any doubt on the install packages, here is what is related to mesa on my system:
        [[email protected] ~]# rpm -qa | grep mesa mesa-libGLU-devel-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 mesa-dri-drivers-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 mesa-libGL-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 mesa-libGL-devel-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686
        Here is the result of a glxgears:
        
        [[email protected] ~]# glxgears
        Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
        approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
        2147 frames in 5.0 seconds = 429.317 FPS
        3485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 696.936 FPS
        XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server “:0.0”
        after 21572 requests (21569 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
        
        The fatal error occurs only when I close the gear window.
        You are right about the R300: my card is based on a RS400 chipset. Seems ok them. But I wonder why my OpenGL is 1.5, not 2.0.
        
        Thanks!
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        JR
        14th May 2010, 8:49 pm
        
        Looks strange, because your card should support OpenGL 2.0, at least according to this comparison.
        
        Could you post your xorg.conf or are you using xorg.conf?
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        JÃ©
        15th May 2010, 12:05 am
        
        Here it is:
        
        # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
        
        Section “ServerLayout”
        Identifier “single head configuration”
        Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0
        InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
        EndSection
        
        Section “InputDevice”
        # keyboard added by system-config-display
        Identifier “Keyboard0”
        Driver “kbd”
        Option “XkbModel” “pc105”
        Option “XkbLayout” “fr”
        EndSection
        
        Section “Device”
        Identifier “Videocard0”
        Driver “radeon”
        Option “DRI” “On”
        EndSection
        
        Section “DRI”
        Mode 0666
        EndSection
        
        Section “Screen”
        Identifier “Screen0”
        Device “Videocard0”
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection “Display”
        Viewport 0 0
        Depth 24
        Modes “1280×768” “1024×768” “800×600” “640×480”
        EndSubSection
        EndSection
        
        Thanks a lot for your time
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        JR
        15th May 2010, 10:50 am
        
        Looks OK, but try add also following sections and let’s see what happens:
        
        Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "On" EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "On" EndSection
        
        It’s nice to help. No problem. :)
ss7rd
5th March 2010, 3:13 am

Hello I have installed the mesa experimental drivers, but I can’t find the xorg.conf file anywhere???
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- JR
  5th March 2010, 8:47 am
  Do you need xorg.conf file for a particular purpose?
  
  If not, then everything should be ok, because xorg.conf is generated automatically at startup.
  
  But if you really need it then you have to create one. I recommend to install the system-config-display package. With following command as root:
```
yum install system-config-display
```
  Following command will generate a clean /etc/X11/xorg.conf file using the automatically detected driver for your video card:
```
system-config-display --noui
```
  If you want specify a particular driver for your video card you can simply create /etc/X11/xorg.conf with following command:
```
system-config-display --noui --set-driver=radeon
```
  For more information on ways you can use system-config-display command, simply run:
```
system-config-display --help
```
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Vikas Sharma
19th March 2010, 8:42 pm

Hi,
I have ATI HD 3400 and i m running fedora 12 but after installing mesa dri drivers experimental the output is same

glxinfo |grep -i â€œ$render\|opengl$â€

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

on which card it was running successfully!!!
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Vikas Sharma
19th March 2010, 9:21 pm

hi,
i m using ati HD 3400 and f12
after installing mesa dri exp
i got d same output as of VISHAL’s

but glxgears worked with 999fps but still i cant enable desktop effect
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- JR
  22nd March 2010, 9:36 am
  Hi,
  
  Are you using the automatically generated xorg.conf?
  Or are you created xorg.conf file by yourself?
  
  What is following command output?
```
lsmod |grep radeon
```
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Ray Ward
7th April 2010, 11:50 pm

ATI Technologies Inc RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]
No luck with this one.
glxinfo returns this.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0.0”.
Error: couldn’t find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

I had a go with the radeonhd driver as well (KMS had to be disabled).
X -configure decided it was a radeonhd card. the driver is very basic and cannot get a resolution higher than 1024×768 even with the monitor section mode lines correctly filled out.

GLX is loaded I can see that from the X logs. No obvious errors in the logs.

No 3D acceleration.

Any ideas?

Nice article by the way. Keep em comming.

Regards
Ray
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- JR
  8th April 2010, 8:48 am
  Hi Ray,
  
  Could you post the output of following commands?
```
lsmod |grep radeon

rpm -qa | grep mesa
```
  When you have just radeon driver running then you could try create custom xorg.conf file. This comment shows you simple example how you could create custom xorg.conf file, with radeon driver.
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Dave
8th April 2010, 5:29 am

I have the same output as Vikas. Radeon HD 2400. Glxgears is 300fps. Can’t enable 3D effects either. Any ideas?

$ glxinfo | grep -i render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer

$ glxinfo | grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1-DEVEL
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

$ lsmod | grep radeon
radeon 513503 1
ttm 40269 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 22251 1 radeon
drm 134966 3 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 4073 1 radeon
i2c_core 21732 5 radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801

$ rpm -qa | grep mesa
mesa-libGL-7.7-4.fc12.i686
mesa-dri-drivers-7.7-4.fc12.i686
mesa-libGLU-devel-7.7-4.fc12.i686
mesa-libGLU-7.7-4.fc12.i686
mesa-libGL-devel-7.7-4.fc12.i686
mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-7.7-4.fc12.i686
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- JR
  8th April 2010, 8:20 am
  Hi Dave,
  
  Maybe you should try the custom xorg.conf file.
  
  First backup existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and create new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with following command (as root):
```
system-config-display --noui --set-driver=radeon
```
  Then modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and check/add following lines:
```
Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AIGLX" "On"
        ...
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ...
        Driver      "radeon"
        Option      "DRI" "On"
        ...
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "On"
EndSection
```
  Then restart X or even reboot and if everything is OK, then try 3D effects again.
  
  And you could send the output of glxinfo as before:
```
glxinfo | grep -i render

glxinfo | grep -i opengl
```
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Johann
14th April 2010, 10:15 pm

Thanks! I couldn’t get Fedora12 to give me any better than 1280×1024 on my Viewsonic 22″ 1680×1050 monitor running on a Radeon 4200HD. The mesa-dri driver did the trick! =)
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anuran
20th April 2010, 9:58 pm

yum install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental use this commend on fedora 12. the out put is Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit…
The other application is: yum
Memory : 17 M RSS ( 32 MB VSZ)
Started: Wed Apr 21 00:09:37 2010 – 11:16 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 2576
continuously do not stop it.what to do? how install full software for radeon 4350 ati driver.
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- JR
  21st April 2010, 7:27 am
  Hi anuran,
  
  This sounds like a normal lock as a result of some graphical program used (like automatic software updater or something like that). Another option is that for some reason yum lock is left on, although it should not be. So you can easily see information about this process with following command:
```
ps aux |grep 2576
```
  If this process is really running then you can check it out and maybe close some program or kill it, with following command:
```
kill 2576
# OR #
kill -9 2576
```
  If this is not helping then last option is to remove yum lock file, when you are absolutely sure that it does not cause any problems. You can remove yum lock file with following command (as root):
```
rm -rf /var/run/yum.pid
```
  Did you get YUM working properly and mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package installed?
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Ray Ward
24th April 2010, 1:43 pm

Sorry for the delay. I was’t watching.

lsmod |grep radeon
radeon 513503 2
ttm 40269 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 22251 1 radeon
drm 134966 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 4073 1 radeon
i2c_core 21732 13 dvb_usb_dib0700,dib7000p,dib7000m,dib0070,dvb_usb,dib3000mc,dib8000,dibx000_common,i2c_nforce2,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit

rpm -qa | grep mesa
mesa-libGLw-devel-6.5.1-8.fc12.i686
mesa-libGLU-7.8-0.18.fc13.i686
mesa-dri-drivers-7.8-0.18.fc13.i686
mesa-libOSMesa-7.8-0.18.fc13.i686
mesa-libGL-devel-7.8-0.18.fc13.i686
mesa-demos-7.8-0.18.fc13.i686
lilypond-parmesan-fonts-2.12.2-5.fc12.i686
mesa-libOSMesa-devel-7.8-0.18.fc13.i686
mesa-libGL-7.8-0.18.fc13.i686
mesa-libGLU-devel-7.8-0.18.fc13.i686
mesa-libGLw-6.5.1-8.fc12.i686
mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-7.8-0.18.fc13.i686

Thing’s have moved on slightly. Still on 2D but I can turn on 3D however the screen is upside down and back to front.
Challenging but not realy usable.

Regards
Ray
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Stan
11th May 2010, 9:41 pm

Automatic upgrade from F10 to F12 left my docking station unusable as after boot no login chooser was displayed. After being down for a good 24 hrs. I finally found your post. I don’t think it worked completely:
glxinfo |grep -i “$render\|opengl$”
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
But at least I can log in – woo hoo! Thought I’d have to go back to MS. Thought you should know, that after successfully logging in:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
Maybe removing that file was all I needed … hmm.
Anyway, thanks again!!!
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James S
13th May 2010, 12:19 am

Hi,

Firstly I wish to thank you for the first user friendly guide on installing the Open Source ati driver that i could find.

I do have a strange problem similar to Dave, I’m runninf fedora 12 and have installed the Mesa Drivers and the display config. Set up my xorg.conf file multiple times and checked that the driver is set to radeon.

I have a XFX hd 5870, glx gears displays without issue at around 450~500 FPS and I get the following when trying your above commands: –

glxinfo |grep -i “$render\|opengl$”
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.8.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp, GL_NV_fragment_program,

glxinfo | grep -i render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp, GL_NV_fragment_program

My xorg.conf file lists radeon as the driver also. I can’t see anything wrong with my config but as soon as I try to enable desktop effects I get teh defaul 3d rendering disabled error.

Can you think of any fixes?
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- JR
  13th May 2010, 3:57 pm
  Hi James S,
  
  Glad to hear that you think this is a user friendly guide. :)
  
  Your problem sounds really strange, because everything looks okay (except very low FPS for your card). Possible reason why you get error message is low FPS, but let’s see what we can do…
  
  Please post here your xorg.conf file and output of following command:
```
lsmod |grep radeon
```
  Reply

Hi
I can not get my ATI RADEON x1100 card working on FC 13. I tried yum install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
even few days ago without any result. when I type it now it says ‘poackage already installed. NOthing to do.’
Then I gave a try on what is shown on that page regarding FC13 sudo yum --enablerepo=rawhide update mesa-dri-drivers-experimental mesa* and it just says
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit

Error getting repository data for rawhide, repository not found
Here is the output I have from rpm -qa | grep mesa
mesa-dri-drivers-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 mesa-libGL-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686
From glxgears I get only:
826 frames in 5.0 seconds = 165.096 FPS

Please, HELP!

Hi Nikolay,

Sounds strange that rawhide, repository not found. If I run command yum –enablerepo=rawhide update mesa-dri-drivers-experimental mesa* I get following results:


yum --enablerepo=rawhide update mesa-dri-drivers-experimental mesa*

Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
...
rawhide                                                         | 4.3 kB     00:00     
rawhide/primary_db                                              |  10 MB     00:05     
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mesa-dri-drivers.i686 0:7.8.1-6.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package mesa-dri-drivers-experimental.i686 0:7.8.1-6.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package mesa-libGL.i686 0:7.8.1-6.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package mesa-libGL-devel.i686 0:7.8.1-6.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package mesa-libGLU.i686 0:7.8.1-6.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package mesa-libGLU-devel.i686 0:7.8.1-6.fc13 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=======================================================================================
 Package                             Arch       Version            Repository     Size
=======================================================================================
Updating:
 mesa-dri-drivers                    i686       7.8.1-6.fc13       rawhide        10 M
 mesa-dri-drivers-experimental       i686       7.8.1-6.fc13       rawhide       1.5 M
 mesa-libGL                          i686       7.8.1-6.fc13       rawhide       154 k
 mesa-libGL-devel                    i686       7.8.1-6.fc13       rawhide       485 k
 mesa-libGLU                         i686       7.8.1-6.fc13       rawhide       188 k
 mesa-libGLU-devel                   i686       7.8.1-6.fc13       rawhide       111 k

Transaction Summary
=======================================================================================
Install       0 Package(s)
Upgrade       6 Package(s)

So no problems, with Rawhide repository.

Could you post following command output:


ls -la /etc/yum.repos.d/

And could you post your xorg.conf or are you using xorg.conf?

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