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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:38 am
Ok, so I run fedora 7 on both my laptop and desktop.
Everything is working great on my laptop, but on my desktop, with the latest kernel and fglrx driver, my system will hang during boot. It'll get all the way to right when it's about to start gdm, but it'll freeze at that point. I can't log in remotely or anything, it's just frozen.
I've got the ati drivers disabled now so i can still use my system...but it has the better hardware so i was really hoping to get 3D accel. enabled. Same driver & kernel on my laptop and it works. I just recently re-installed Linux on my desktop. I had it on there before a while back and things worked back then.
Any ideas?
Specs:
(Desktop)
Proc. 3.0GHz Pentium 4
2.5 GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1600 (256MB)
(laptop)
Proc: AMD Turion ML-34 (1.6GHz)
1.0 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 200M (128 MB)
I'll post anything extra if you need it. (like my xorg.conf or whatever)
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:12 am
First of all, you should update to FC 8. If you want to get any help from the Fedora community they pretty much insist that you run their latest and greatest baby.
2nd, try starting your machine in Single-user mode (change the initdefault to 2 or append 2 to your kernel call when you boot).
Re-install fglrx using the latest version from AMD's website. and then manually start the GUI with 'startx'.
When you have it working correctly, change your initdefault back to 4 or w/e it is for GUI login on your distro.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:46 am
What version of the ATI drivers are you using? In most cases anything over 8.40.x is s**t, if it works with your card then great but in most cases it causes more trouble then it needs. If you are running a newer version of the driver you should consider trying it out. Thats what I'm running on my laptop with a ATI Radeon Xpress 1100, I tried 8.43.x and it slowed down my system so everything ran more like a sideshow than a OS, no animations, it took 2-3 minutes for windows and applications to respond.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:33 pm
vendion What version of the ATI drivers are you using? In most cases anything over 8.40.x is s**t, if it works with your card then great but in most cases it causes more trouble then it needs. If you are running a newer version of the driver you should consider trying it out. Thats what I'm running on my laptop with a ATI Radeon Xpress 1100, I tried 8.43.x and it slowed down my system so everything ran more like a sideshow than a OS, no animations, it took 2-3 minutes for windows and applications to respond. Ok I have to say 8.45.x is pretty decent, back story after the SUSE kernel updates 8.40.x is no longer supported so I deiced that I wanted to try out the newer drivers to see if they might even be decent for openSUSE 11. So far so good, my only complaint is that the driver deiced to ******** with my x.org settings. It changed my display size, it made x.org read my 15.4 inch LCD screen as a 17 inch one, and my screen looks a bit stretched and the fonts where blurred, but I was able to fix my problem with fonts, still working on restoring my screens natural look. If you want to fight it 8.45.x is a possibility.
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