[elrepo] Fglrx 11.5

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Phil Perry writes:

> On 15/06/11 19:21, Steve Cleveland wrote:
> 
>>
>> # ll /usr/lib64/fglrx/libatiuki.so.1*
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    16 Jun 15 10:59
>> /usr/lib64/fglrx/libatiuki.so.1 ->  libatiuki.so.1.0*
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 44725 May 12 07:46
>> /usr/lib64/fglrx/libatiuki.so.1.0*
>>
>> The xorg.conf looks pretty simple. Do some paths need to be added?
>>
>>
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>>           Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
>>           Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Module"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>>           Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
>>           Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
>>           Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
>>           Option      "DPMS" "true"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>>           Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
>>           Driver      "fglrx"
>>           BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>>           Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
>>           Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
>>           Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
>>           DefaultDepth     24
>>           SubSection "Display"
>>                   Viewport   0 0
>>                   Depth     24
>>           EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Files"
>> EndSection
>>
>>
>>    - Steve
> 
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Please try the updated 11.5-3 drivers currently syncing to the el6 
> elrepo-testing repository to see if those fix the issue.
> 
> If not, and wrt your xorg.conf above, a couple suggestions of things to try:
> 
> 1. Try adding the following "Files" section
> 
> Section "Files"
>          ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx"
>          ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
> EndSection
> 
> and rebooting.
> 
> 2. Make sure you have /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati.conf and not 
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati.conf.disable. The ati-config-display utility is 
> supposed to toggle these back and forth when enabling/disabling the ATI 
> driver. If you need to rename the file, please run '/sbin/ldconfig' 
> afterwards before rebooting.

Phil,

11.5-3 installs and works fine so far. I only needed to mv ati.conf.disabled 
to ati.conf, no need to specify any paths in the Files section in xorg.conf.

Job well done. Thanks!