Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114818
Getting ATI Radeon 9xxx, FireGL, Mobility working with Fedora - READ THIS FIRST!!!!
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:35 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: The anaconda installer is failing when trying to start X to begin the GUI-based installer. It actually locks up the computer, but I ran the installer again and kept the F4 screen active and was able to look at /tmp/X.log to find out what the exact error is: (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module "record" (module does not exist, 0) (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy (EE) xf86OpenSerial: cannot open device /dev/input/mice no such device (EE) DevInputMice: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "DevInputMice" I am using a KVM switch, but disconnected it and tried with the mouse/keyboard/monitor directly connected and got the same error. Mouse and KB are both PS/2 and work fine on my Windoze PC. I can run the text-based installer, and may just go ahead and do this and upgrade XFree to see if that's the problem. Anaconda is correctly detecting my monitor and video card. All installation disks have been PASSed by the installer disk check feature. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): n/a How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert yarrow disk 1 and boot computer in graphical mode install. 2. When the installer tries to load X, boom. 3. N/A Expected Results: I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the installer should have started X and continued the installation without any errors. Additional info: Hate to assign this high, since I can do a text-based install, but since I've not tried that yet, I don't know if I can get X to start just yet. I can update this info when I try that.
Ok, quick update. After keying in this bug, I switched over to F7 and to my suprise, X had started successfully and I was looking at the welcome screen. But before you break out the champagne, I clicked Next and it went to the language selection screen. I clicked next and X froze. I'll reboot to see what the X log says. Hopefully the /tmp dir isn't wiped so I can see it... It was wiped. But clearly the module loading error is not the problem since the installer managed to find a way past it... Any ideas?
Installed fine via the text installer, rebooted and computer froze when X tried to load. Booted 'linux rescue' and changed inittab to runlevel 3 and rebooted. Things seem fine, mouse and keyboard are working fine in runlevel 3. I am going to try and telinit to runlevel 5... Ok, telinit 5 worked and I was able to get to the login screen. I logged in as root (i know....bad) and the Fedora Core (GNOME) loader screen came up and the entire computer froze again. I rebooted and there's nothing funky in the log file, i.e., no glaring errors. There is something about the resolution, but I don't think it's critical. The mouse just went haywire so I tried a USB mouse to see if perhaps the PS2 port is bad. It worked fine under the terminals, but X froze again.... Will shutdown and wait for some feedback.
Nice post. I have the same problem - having tried graphical and text based install - using skipddc and noprobe options. With graphical install I get a hard lock when the X tries to initalise installaion screen for mouse and graphics card selection With a text install i get to complete the install, but on first boot the system hangs when attempting to enter runlevel 5 My theory is as follows: 1) UNDER RH9 If I install RH9 my Radeon 9800 pro is detected as a generic vesa card. If I select Generic Radeon or Radeon 9700 pro from the install options, I can install ok, but on first boot I get the same message as your first post "failed to load....." 2) With RH9, on first (and subsequent) boots the X server re-initialises using a generic vesa driver - overriding the selection I made during installation and I can login using the X GUI 3) With FC1, my card detects as Radeon 9800 pro and assuming I use the text based to complete install, I reach a point entering runlevel 5 where the old RH9 X server would re-initialise - but FC1 doesn't and the system hangs. I assume two things here - A) Support for Radeon 9x00 is not 100% rock solid (or any openGL card??) B) Anaconda and X don't fail safe and install a generci vesa driver anymore. Just my two cents ;)
Bingo! I just booted the RH9 CD and sure enough, it used the VESA driver instead of the Mach 64 driver. I, too, have the Radeon 9800 (but not pro). Did you hack your XFree86 config file to load the vesa driver instead of the Mach64? I can do that and get my system up and running from there.
Oooo! Just found this on ATI's website: http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=10&submit.y=1&submit=GO%21 Looks like ATI is providing drivers for the 9800 via their website for XF86 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3. I'll check it out and update this as appropriate.
Ok, I installed the RPM and followed the instructions in the readme. Note that you WILL need the kernel source!!! Did NOT have to rebuild kernel, but did go into /lib/modules/... directory to run the two make scripts the readme mentions (but probably didn't need to) after installing the RPM and before running the XFree config binary the script tells you to run after the RPM installs. After answering all the questions, I looked at the config file, /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and for whatever reason it put (null) as my vertical refresh rate, so I had to fix that. I ran 'startx' and everything worked fine. The supported video cards for this RPM are: - ATI Radeon 8500 / 9100 - ATI FireGL 8700 / 8800 / E1 - ATI FireGL T2 - ATI Radeon 9000 - ATI Radeon 9200 - ATI Radeon 9500 - ATI Radeon 9600 - ATI Radeon 9700 - ATI Radeon 9800 - ATI FireGL Z1 / X1 / X2 - ATI Mobility M9 - ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 - ATI Mobility M9PLUS
Radeon 9200/9600/9800 hardware is not supported at all by XFree86.org's stock XFree86 4.3.0 release. We have patched 4.3.0 to add experimental support for /some models/ of the 9200/9600/9800, however other models are still unsupported. There are numerous bug reports open in bugzilla for 9200/9600/9800 which you may wish to query for, as they may provide useful information for trying to work around the problem for now. If time permits, I may investigate these problems for the Fedora Core 2 release, and future erratum for FC1/RHL9/RHEL3 as well. Attach your X config file and log file as individual bugzilla file attachments, and I'll review them when I'm investigating these issues. Thanks.
Created attachment 97482 [details] XFree config file created by running the fglrxconfig binary. I modified the config file a tiny amount after creation. I had to fix the (null) parameter that was there instead of the vertical synch range and I added/corrected my monitor information.
Created attachment 97483 [details] XFree log file containing all successful/failed attempts to start X I think there might be some stuff missing from the log because most of the stuff appears to be from the new fire gl driver I built from ATI....not sure though.
Mike- Your wish is my command. I've attached said logs. The module works like charm and X runs just fine now. Wasn't really hard at all...don't know why more people are made aware of the "fix." Though, I do understand if they're not Linux-saavy yet.
I think you might misunderstand me... Red Hat does not support 3rd party video drivers at all, proprietary or open source. If you use a 3rd party driver at all, and have any problems with it and need technical support, you must go to the supplier of the driver to seek support. We wont provide tech support, nor track bugs with 3rd party drivers. >don't know why more people are made aware of the "fix." Because it is not a "fix". It is a workaround, and is unsupported. Bugzilla is here for people to report bugs, and for us to track the bug and fix it or determine another resolution, and not for to point people at binary drivers and then leave things sit broken. When I asked for the files above, I wanted the config/log file from configuring X using _our_ tools, not fglrxconfig, and the log file from using the radeon driver we ship, not ATI's unsupported driver. That stuff isn't useful to me.
Radeon 9200/9600/9800, and the Pro, SE, and XT variants of these are now officially supported in Fedora Core 2 and later OS releases. Once you've upgraded to Fedora Core 2 or later, this hardware should be automatically detected and configured. If you experience problems with the "radeon" driver in Fedora Core 2, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugtracker located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE"