T42 ATI 9600 Graphics and Redhat

[dfumento]

Hi,
Has anyone used the ATI drivers on the ATI website for Redhat Enterprise 3 or 4 or Redhat 9 or Fedora Core 3?

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linu ... ubmit.y=11

Also, ATI offers different drivers for XFree86 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 as well as Xorg 6.8

Does anyone know which XFree86 version Redhat 9 runs?



Thanks in advance,
David

[toolshed]

I am not sure about redhat, but fedora core uses xorg. You can just yum the driver, they have howto on fedorafaq.

yum command to install ati:
yum install ati-fglrx kernel-module-fglrx-`(uname -r)`

Fedora faq, many questions answer here:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/

If you are doing redhat, go with FC3, everything works after installs, except sleep events. I am still working on the details with that, but [censored]...hw and system time get out of synch.

ibm-acpi is compiled in and works good. So with FC3 there is not much to do from hardware standpoint. Bluetooth and everything works....linux as came as long way from when I first started, very impressive.

However, if it is redhat.
Do this command:
$rpm -qa | grep -i xfree

The output should display which version. Just download the correct version and follow the readme.[/url]

[xchric]

download the check.sh on the ati.com to determine your x version

[paul_vin]

This is actually a timely question for me. I'm trying to get the ATI driver going with a box-stock RedHat 9.0 install on a T42 (ATI 9600). During the package installation, I get a load of unresolved symbols, which the ATI FAQ says is due to a mismatch between the kernel source and the actual build. I went through the instructions for rebuilding the kernel using the old configuration, then manually loaded the module, but I still get the same error.

Has anyone got this combination to work successfully? I'm certainly not kernel-level proficient in RedHat, so I could be missing someting entirely obvious. (I did also make another symbolic link for /usr/src/linux, as that seems to be what the ATI stuff was looking for, but only /usr/src/linux-2.4 and /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8 existed.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks...

-Paul

[toolshed]

Please post the errors you are getting? IF they happen when you load the module, please post terminal output.

[paul_vin]

Please post the errors you are getting? IF they happen when you load the module, please post terminal output.

It's a bit long, but here you go...

[root@localhost paul]# rpm -Uh --force fglrx_4_3_0-8.10.19-1.i386.rpm
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depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol yield_Rsmp_760a0f4f
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __get_free_pages_Rsmp_4784e424
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol try_inc_mod_count_Rsmp_e6105b23
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_write_config_byte_Rsmp_62c99bc3
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol block_all_signals_Rsmp_4b34fbf5
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol free_irq_Rsmp_f20dabd8
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol disable_irq_Rsmp_3ce4ca6f
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_read_config_dword_Rsmp_43e318de
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol boot_cpu_data_Rsmp_0657d037
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __free_pages_Rsmp_8b5bac83
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_write_config_dword_Rsmp_7fbf61ba
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol inter_module_register_Rsmp_62dada05
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol zone_table_Rsmp_0d4e04fb
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __out_of_line_bug_Rsmp_8b0fd3c5
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_find_capability_Rsmp_fd6a6c39
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol iounmap_Rsmp_5fb196d4
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev_Rsmp_81aab63a
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol unlock_page_Rsmp_37b8de42
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_read_config_word_Rsmp_d25f3240
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_find_slot_Rsmp_1de8747c
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __generic_copy_to_user_Rsmp_d523fdd3
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol mtrr_del_Rsmp_272d394e
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol lock_page_Rsmp_43cf7616
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol add_wait_queue_Rsmp_d91fb263
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol remove_wait_queue_Rsmp_b2c44425
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol create_proc_entry_Rsmp_b8fa02cf
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol si_meminfo_Rsmp_b3a307c6
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol mem_map_Rsmp_411fe2f0
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol unregister_chrdev_Rsmp_c192d491
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __vmalloc_Rsmp_79995c5b
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pm_unregister_all_Rsmp_ba4fe124
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range_Rsmp_415188d1
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol sprintf_Rsmp_1d26aa98
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_devices_Rsmp_7a84b102
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __ioremap_Rsmp_9eac042a
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_read_config_byte_Rsmp_0e425a9e
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pm_register_Rsmp_027ebe5e
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol printk_Rsmp_1b7d4074
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol kfree_Rsmp_037a0cba
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol _alloc_pages_Rsmp_c57832b3
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol inter_module_get_Rsmp_f6a0ce24
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol init_mm_Rsmp_d84869e6
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol inter_module_unregister_Rsmp_7a9e845e
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol vsprintf_Rsmp_954cbb26
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol free_pages_Rsmp_9941ccb8
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol mtrr_add_Rsmp_56179c5f
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol vfree_Rsmp_2fd1d81c
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol inter_module_put_Rsmp_6b99f7d8
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol kmalloc_Rsmp_93d4cfe6
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_write_config_word_Rsmp_97d04e11
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry_Rsmp_b2b7bf58
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol enable_irq_Rsmp_fcec0987
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol unblock_all_signals_Rsmp_0a2487e0
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol schedule_Rsmp_4292364c
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __const_udelay_Rsmp_eae3dfd6
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __udelay_Rsmp_9e7d6bd0
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol high_memory_Rsmp_8a7d1c31
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __generic_copy_from_user_Rsmp_116166aa
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol jiffies_Rsmp_0da02d67
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol request_irq_Rsmp_0c60f2e0
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_enable_device_Rsmp_30af41e2
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up_Rsmp_b76c5f1e
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_find_class_Rsmp_f6ba1559
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol pci_find_device_Rsmp_2ec905d7
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o:
Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license
and it has unresolved symbols. The module may be trying to access
GPLONLY symbols but the problem is more likely to be a coding or
user error. Contact the module supplier for assistance, only they
can help you.

/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: insmod fglrx failed
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol unlock_page
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol create_proc_entry
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol remove_wait_queue
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol highmem_start_page
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol kmap_prot
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol add_wait_queue
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol _alloc_pages
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol mem_map/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol init_mm/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol __free_pages
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol lock_page
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol kmap_pte
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o:
Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license
and it has unresolved symbols. The module may be trying to access
GPLONLY symbols but the problem is more likely to be a coding or
user error. Contact the module supplier for assistance, only they
can help you.

/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: insmod fglrx failed
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o
[root@localhost paul]#

[toolshed]

Post this command
$uname -r

Please post link of where you got that driver.

If the drivers are compiled for 2.4.10 and you try and install on 2.40.20 system you will see errors as you described.

Also, if you have to force an RPM to install, you should research it first. force basically says to install no matter if it is compat or not....I think it throws dependency check out of the loop, but still shows the verbose output.

[paul_vin]

Post this command
$uname -r

Please post link of where you got that driver.

If the drivers are compiled for 2.4.10 and you try and install on 2.40.20 system you will see errors as you described.

Also, if you have to force an RPM to install, you should research it first. force basically says to install no matter if it is compat or not....I think it throws dependency check out of the loop, but still shows the verbose output.

uname -r gives:

2.4.20-8

The drivers are from:

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linu ... bmit=GO%21

I downloaded the 4.3 version, as that's what the check.sh script called for.

Thanks!

[toolshed]

Do you you follow these insructions, :

1a. ln -s /usr/src/'uname -r' /usr/src/linux
1b. cd /usr/src/linux
1c. install the rpm


2. Copy your existing kernel options into the source tree as folows:
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` /usr/src/linux/.config

3. Generate the kernel Makefiles using these settings as follows:
make oldconfig

4. Generate dependencies as follows:

* For kernel 2.4: make dep
* For kernel 2.6: make

5. Restart the system

6. Rebuild and reinstall the kernel module

[paul_vin]

Do you you follow these insructions, :

1a. ln -s /usr/src/'uname -r' /usr/src/linux
1b. cd /usr/src/linux
1c. install the rpm


2. Copy your existing kernel options into the source tree as folows:
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` /usr/src/linux/.config

3. Generate the kernel Makefiles using these settings as follows:
make oldconfig

4. Generate dependencies as follows:

* For kernel 2.4: make dep
* For kernel 2.6: make

5. Restart the system

6. Rebuild and reinstall the kernel module

Yes, I did all that, and it works fine. The problem comes in the next step, rebuilding and reinstalling.

> Building the fglrx kernel module:
>
> 1. cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
> 2. sh make.sh

This works fine...

> Installing the fglrx kernel module:
>
> 3. cd /lib/modules/fglrx
> 4. sh make_install.sh

This is what fails. I get:

[root@paul fglrx]# sh make_install.sh
- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range
...

as before.

[toolshed]

Here is a link I found:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... 10/3/96850

It is not a solution, but good way to trouble shoot it.

Everyone keeps saying to uninstall XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-2.90.55.

I would do a little google searching or linux forum searching....somebody has bound to have ran into this.

[paul_vin]

Here is a link I found:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... 10/3/96850

It is not a solution, but good way to trouble shoot it.

Everyone keeps saying to uninstall XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-2.90.55.

I would do a little google searching or linux forum searching....somebody has bound to have ran into this.

Thanks, I'll check into that page further, and let you know what happens. FWIW, I did quite a bit of Google searching the other day, as I figured everyone and their cousin has to have run into this problem. But, it seems that most people have moved beyond RH9, and are using later Fedora/RHEL distributions, etc. I haven't run across any data from other folks with the same setup, trying to install this driver for whatever reason. Oh well...I'll follow up when I have more info. Thanks again!

[dfumento]

Perhaps you should consider using the latest Fedora/RHEL distrubutions.
I use RHEL 4 and driver install worked fine for me.

[neo79]

Dear dfumento,

Do you mean you use RHEL4 has the radeon driver itself and no need to download from anywhere?

My video card is ati radeon mobility 9600, are we having the same one?

Thanks.
wy

[stgreek]

Most likely you will need to download the driver, but in most cases the installation is one-click away (using the package management of RHEL4).

A word of caution: The latest Ati-drivers seem to skip some resolutions (eg on my SXGA+ screen with the 9600 mobility, max resolution was 1280x1024). This has been reported by many users, so revert to the previous ones if you are having problems. By the way, even if you are using Redhat 9 (which comes with XFree 4.3 I believe), upgrade it to X.Org, it is much faster and supports many nifty tricks.