Fedora Core 6 - ATI

 

Two days ago I finally finished downloading Fedora Core 6, I was very excited because this is my favorite distribution. Installation went fine, but when I logged into my account, I saw something what I didn’t want to see, the same problem which I had on Ubuntu - not properly configured screen resolution. The only proper values for my screen was 1024×768x70Hz and if I changed to 85Hz I could see only 3/4 part of the desktop, however I didn’t have to install desktop effects, because all packages was already installed - AIGLX instead XGL or Beryl. But I want to work in 1024×768x85Hz mode.

On Ubuntu I had to play with something what is called modeline, but I had to know my monitor parameters, This is not a good metho

d because I don’t really know if this parameters are correct, just didn’t want to blow up my monitor. The second way was to install graphic card drivers, that helps all the time (ATI in my case). But this meant that
I had to say goodbye to AIGLX, because it not w

orking with fglrx (and I think Beryl also have problems with fgrlx on Fedora 6)… I had right, after installing ATI drivers the screen resoulution with 85Hz works properly. Everything works fine but I couldn’t install XGL, I think the drivers are properly installed, so I don’t know where the problem is.

How did I install Ati drivers:

First: I did everything what was described here

Next:

aticonfig --initial

and

ati-fglrx-config-display enable

I did some changes in xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

• Section “ServerLayout”
• • Identifier “single head conf iguration”
  • Screen 0 “aticonfig-Screen[0]” 0 0
  • InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
• EndSection

• Section “Module”
• • Load “extend”
  • Load “glx”
  • Load “dri”
• EndSection

• Section “InputDevice”
• • Identifier “Keyboard0″
  • Driver “kbd”
  • Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
  • Option “XkbLayout” “pl”
• EndSection

• Section “Monitor”
• • Identifier “aticonfig-Moni tor[0]“
  • Option “VendorName” “ATI Proprietary Driver”
  • Option “ModelName” “Generic Autodetecting Monitor”
  • Option “DPMS” “true”
• EndSection

• Section “Device”
• • Identifier “aticonfig-Device[0]“
  • Driver “fglrx”
  • BoardName “ATI Technologies Inc RV360 AS [Radeon 9600]“
  • Option “VideoOverlay” “on”
  • Option “AllowGLXwithcompos ite” “true”
  • Option “RenderAccel” “true”
  • Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “true”
• EndSection

• Section “Screen”
• • Identifier “aticonfig-Screen[0]“
  • Device “aticonfig-Device[0]“
  • Monitor “aticonfig-Monitor[ 0]“
  • DefaultDepth 24
  • SubSection “Display”
  • • Viewport 0 0
    • Depth 24
    • Modes “1024×768″ ” 800×600″ “640×480″
  • EndSubSection
• EndSection

• Section “DRI”
• • Group 0
  • Mode 0666
• EndSection

• Section “Extensions”
• • Option “Composite” “Disable”
• EndSection

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