Problems with dual-display in Fedora 7
I was given a second LCD monitor this week so I bought a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro (AGP) card, thinking it wouldn't be so painful to get it working.
I know it can feed both screens because (more by accident than design) I've seen output on both ... just not in the way I want to, but at least I know there's not a hardware problem.
My problem is that I can't get it to work how I want, which is to have one screen (the left one) as the primary screen and the second as either a separate or extended desktop - I'll settle for either now.
That website only has drivers for Windows XP and Vista, so I found the unofficial ATI Linux Driver Wiki - Fedora 7 installation guide, which led me to the official ATI Proprietary Linux Driver page, which in turn led me to a page where I could download Catalyst, which I did.
I tried running Catalyst and selected "Install Driver 8.471 on X.Org 7.1 and later releases" which, although it didn't report any problems, didn't work properly - it gave me an error along the lines of "No ATI graphics driver is installed, or the ATI driver is not functioning properly."
OK, so then I found a promising page entitled How to Install Video Drivers on Fedora 7. I skipped the nVidia section and went straight to "How to install ATI drivers". (I did download their version of the installer but it was older than the one I already had (from the ATI/AMD site) so I stuck with the first one.)
Building the drivers seems to have me stuck in a loop (me, not the machine!) because of the dependencies. I'm currently running with kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7; kernel-headers and kernel-devel match that version number.
I installed kernel-module-ATI-fglrx-2.6.23.15-80.fc7-8.4
Checking what needed to be installed to fix that dependency (
I ran
So, I guess my questions are has anyone got this card working with Fedora, and/or any suggestions as to how to move forward?
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I know it can feed both screens because (more by accident than design) I've seen output on both ... just not in the way I want to, but at least I know there's not a hardware problem.
My problem is that I can't get it to work how I want, which is to have one screen (the left one) as the primary screen and the second as either a separate or extended desktop - I'll settle for either now.
That website only has drivers for Windows XP and Vista, so I found the unofficial ATI Linux Driver Wiki - Fedora 7 installation guide, which led me to the official ATI Proprietary Linux Driver page, which in turn led me to a page where I could download Catalyst, which I did.
I tried running Catalyst and selected "Install Driver 8.471 on X.Org 7.1 and later releases" which, although it didn't report any problems, didn't work properly - it gave me an error along the lines of "No ATI graphics driver is installed, or the ATI driver is not functioning properly."
OK, so then I found a promising page entitled How to Install Video Drivers on Fedora 7. I skipped the nVidia section and went straight to "How to install ATI drivers". (I did download their version of the installer but it was older than the one I already had (from the ATI/AMD site) so I stuck with the first one.)
Building the drivers seems to have me stuck in a loop (me, not the machine!) because of the dependencies. I'm currently running with kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7; kernel-headers and kernel-devel match that version number.
I installed kernel-module-ATI-fglrx-2.6.23.15-80.fc7-8.4
Failed dependencies: /usr/include/GL is needed by ATI-fglrx-devel-8.471-1.f7.i386Checking what needed to be installed to fix that dependency (
yum whatprovides /usr/include/GL) returned 2 packages, but when I tried to install them (yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-devel.i386 xorg-x11-proto-devel.i386) I was told Error: conflicts with ATI-fglrx ... but that's what I installed (from Catalyst) just a minute ago! Now I'm stumped.I ran
yum clean all ; yum update just to make sure everything was up to date (which I do most weekends) and it was. Oh, for completeness, the repositories I use are Adobe (http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/lin…), Fedora (http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/m…), Updates (http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/m…), Livna (http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$relea…) and Macromedia (http://macromedia.rediris.es/rpm/).So, I guess my questions are has anyone got this card working with Fedora, and/or any suggestions as to how to move forward?
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