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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/22/2016 02:18 PM, Gabi Munteanu
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:1574809563.715675.1456143533105.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class="">Hi,</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><br
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3138" class="">
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class="">Thank you for
your reply !</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><br
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3142" class="">
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class="">I went ahead
and:</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3423" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">yum groups install
"GNOME Desktop"</font></div>
</blockquote>
<font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">I
assume that you already have the X server and fonts installed
because AFAIK they are not brought in by the Gnome desktop group.<br>
<br>
<br>
</font>
<blockquote
cite="mid:1574809563.715675.1456143533105.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3425" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">yum install
--enablerepo=elrepo-testing kmod-fglrx fglrx-x11-drv-32bit</font></div>
</blockquote>
<font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3425" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br>
I've never needed </font><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3425" face="Courier New, courier,
monaco, monospace, sans-serif">fglrx-x11-drv-32bit</font><br>
<font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3425" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br>
</font>
<blockquote
cite="mid:1574809563.715675.1456143533105.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><br
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3148" class="">
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class="">Than I got </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class="">*ERROR* No UMS
support in radeon module!</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><br
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3153" class="">
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class="">So after
checking this:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=52131">https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=52131</a></div>
</blockquote>
That post is kind of outdated unfortunately.<br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid:1574809563.715675.1456143533105.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class="">I added </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3393" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Section "Files"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3409" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> ModulePath
"/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3410" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> ModulePath
"/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">EndSection</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><br
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3162" class="">
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class="">to xorg.conf</div>
</blockquote>
One year ago this was needed but the current packages ( since last
summer actually ) add these options at install time via
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf and also move a stock ,
conflicting library out of way.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid:1574809563.715675.1456143533105.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><br
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3166" class="">
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class="">and removed all
the 'nomodset' references added to the grub.conf <br>
</div>
</blockquote>
At install time, the fgrlx-x11-drv package disables the stock radeon
driver by adding "radeon.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=radeon" to
the kernel command line<br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid:1574809563.715675.1456143533105.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" class=""><br
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3170" class="">
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class="">Now
this fixed the UMS error however, after I do startx nothing
happens.<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid:1574809563.715675.1456143533105.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><br>
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3380" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">X.Org X Server 1.17.2</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Release
Date: 2015-06-16</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3383" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[ 58.016] X
Protocol Version 11, Revision 0</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3382" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[ 58.017] Build
Operating System: 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3378" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[ 58.017] Current
Operating System: Linux zangasrv.no-ip.org
3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 16 17:03:50 UTC 2016
x86_64</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.017] Kernel command line:
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64
root=/dev/mapper/centos-root ro crashkernel=auto
rd.lvm.lv=centos/root rd.lvm.lv=centos/swap rhgb quiet
initcall_blacklist=clocksource_done_booting</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.018] Build Date: 20 November 2015 02:44:25PM</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.018] Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.17.2-10.el7</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.018] Current version of pixman: 0.32.6</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.018] Before reporting problems, check <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.x.org">http://wiki.x.org</a></font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">
to make sure that you have the latest version.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.018] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==)
default setting,</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3430" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> (++) from
command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.019] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.2.log", Time: Mon Feb
22 12:59:14 2016</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3433" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[ 58.024] (==)
Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.024] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.024] (==) Using system config directory
"/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.028] (==) ServerLayout "aticonfig Layout"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.028] (**) |-->Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" (0)</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.028] (**) | |-->Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.028] (**) | |-->Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.028] (==) Automatically adding devices</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3438" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[ 58.028] (==)
Automatically enabling devices</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.028] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.029] (==) FontPath set to:</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">
catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">
built-ins</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.029] (**) ModulePath set to
"/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.029] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of
input devices.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or
disable AutoAddDevices.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.030] (II) Loader magic: 0x7fc83e124020</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.030] (II) Module ABI versions:</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.030] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3442" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[ 58.030] X.Org
Video Driver: 19.0</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.030] X.Org XInput driver : 21.0</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.030] X.Org Server Extension : 9.0</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.031] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.035] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:6613:1043:048b rev 0, Mem @
0xd0000000/268435456, 0xfe8c0000/262144, I/O @ 0x0000e000/256,
BIOS @ 0x????????/131072</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.035] (II) "glx" will be loaded by default.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.036] (II) LoadModule: "glx"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.037] (II) Loading
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx/libglx.so</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.041] (II) Module glx: vendor="Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc."</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.041] compiled for 6.9.0, module version = 1.0.0</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.041] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3446" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[ 58.043] (II)
Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.178] (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies
Inc."</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.178] compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 15.30.3</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.178] Module class: X.Org Video Driver</font></div>
</blockquote>
So the module loads successfully ...<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid:1574809563.715675.1456143533105.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.179] (II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.179] (II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.179] (II) Loading
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.183] (II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - AMD
Technologies Inc."</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.183] compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 15.30.3</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.183] (II) AMD Proprietary Linux Driver Version
Identifier:15.30.3</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.183] (II) AMD Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier:
UNSUPPORTED-15.302</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3450" face="Courier New,
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[ 58.183] (II) AMD
Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Dec 17 2015 02:43:16</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.183] (++) using VT number 1</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3261" class="">
</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.184] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.266] (II) Loading PCS database from /etc/ati/amdpcsdb
/etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456143414627_3134" dir="ltr" class=""><font
face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.282] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 246</font></div>
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face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">[
58.282] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 246</font></div>
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58.282] ukiOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0</font></div>
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58.282] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card0</font></div>
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58.283] ukiOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)</font></div>
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and the driver seems to work OK</font><br>
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If you can, please restart from scratch.<br>
a) restore the system to a pristine condition ( including here the
removal of xorg.conf and any modifications you did to grub.conf ).<br>
b) do a yum install --enablerepo=elrepo-testing kmod-fglrx <br>
c) reboot<br>
Normally step d should be "enjoy", If the system boots but you have
a black screen, please switch to a text console ( ctrl-alt-F2 ), run
ps -axfw > /tmp/ps.txt, pastebin somewhere the content of
/tmp/ps.txt and then contact me via freenode.net / #elrepo<br>
If the 32bit drivers are needed in order to get rid of the "no UMS
support" error, please let me know so that we can add it as a known
issue in the wiki page<br>
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Manuel<br>
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