Description of problem: Cannot drive ATI FireGL V5250 video card anyhow, and the default driver "vesa" works fine but it is slow and distorts the screen (fetched in the horizontal direction, since it's a widescreen). Tried: rpm -i http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm yum install kmod-fglrx then could not start the X, with error message: cannot find screen 0. Then tried to install the update from Package Manager: xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.42.3-7.lvn8.1.i386 and failed with an error message several pages long, just paste a head in the below: package kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i586 is already installed file /boot/System.map-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 from install of kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i586 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686 file /boot/config-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 from install of kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i586 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686 file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 from install of kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i586 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.42.3-7.lvn8.1.i386 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Buy a Thinkpad T60p with ATI FireGL V5250 2. Install Fedora 8 3. things happen Actual results: 1. Cannot drive ATI FireGL V5250 video card 2. Fail to install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.42.3-7.lvn8.1.i386 Expected results: To see my video card actually works Additional info: I'm a novice for Linux and just switched from M$ Windows a couple weeks agoThis is my first time using linux, but I've got a lot installing experience of Linux (especially Fedora 8), as I've installed it 10 times on my laptop in the last a couple of weeks. Any comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 290134 [details] xorg.conf
Created attachment 290135 [details] Xorg.0.log
Comment on attachment 290135 [details] Xorg.0.log This is the only kind of Xorg.*.log file in the directory, so I guess it's x11 autodetected.
this is an fglrx bug, if you want you can try the F9 beta or F8 + updates which should support your card with the open source ati radeon driver.
Thanks for the report. We are sorry that we cannot help you with your problem, but we are not able to support binary-only drivers. If you would be able to reproduce this issue using only open source software, please, reopen this bug with the additional information, but in meantime I have no choice than to close this bug as CANTFIX (because we really cannot fix it).