[elrepo] ATI Radeon drivers and el repo kernel

[Alan Bartlett]

On 15 November 2010 10:30, Nikki Locke <nikki at trumphurst.com> wrote:
> I've just installed the el repo kernel, because I want to be able
> to use my new USB 3.0 PCIe card and disk.
>
> Unfortunately, I also have an ATI Radeon graphics card, which
> requires a proprietary driver to work properly (I have a
> dual-head setup here).
>
> And my main work is performed inside VMWare Workstation.

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> I hacked the ati and vmware driver sources to get them to compile

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> However, even though the driver now compiles and installs, X will
> not start. Does anyone have any experience of either of these
> 3-rd party drivers with the latest kernel, or have any advice on
> how to get things working again.

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I guess there is no one currently running a similar set-up to you, Nikki.

This is my suggestion to see if your VMware driver source hacks have
been successful. Temporarily do without your dual-head set-up. Just
copy the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to somewhere safe and, having gone to
runlevel 3, invoke --

system-config-display --reconfig --set-resolution=1024x768 \
        --set-depth=24 --set-driver=ati --set-videoram=0

That should give you a fundamental working display for X using the
basic distro ATI driver. Test with "startx".

Now you should be able to test the VMware driver. If it works, one
down and one to go.

Alan.