Archive for December 11, 2007

3D effects on fedora 8 on ati 1250

Dec 11th

I have finally found a way to make Compiz work on ATI x1250 on HP 6515b after searching on a large number of forums i finally found it on Fedora Forums all thanks to leigh123@linux and here is my easy way well its not that easy but still it works

PLEASE TRY THIS PROCEDURE CAREFULLY IT HAS NOT WORKED ON SOME SYSTEMS I WILL UPDATE IT AS AND WHEN I GET A DIFFERENT WAY

First enable the Livna repositories type
su rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
then type
yum install kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit yum update kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit service fglrx restart fglrx-config-display enable
now restart your xserver by pressing ctrl + alt + backspace , then after restarting go to terminal type
fglrxinfo
you should see something like this
display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon X1200 Series OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release
and then run
glxinfo
you should see some thing like this
name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.4 .......................................................
now you can proceed with update of Compiz, for this add the compiz fusion repo login as root and type
wget http://www.dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion/compiz-fusion.repo cp compiz-fusion.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
before install remove the old packages type
rm -rf /home/*/.config/compiz rm -rf /home/*/.gconf/apps/compiz
now install compiz
yum install compiz-all fusion-icon-all compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported compiz-bcop ccsm emerald-themes
after this we have to downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg for all i386 (32bit) users type
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-server/1.3.0.0/9.fc7/i386/xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7.i386.rpm rpm -U --oldpackage xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7.i386.rpm
For x86_64 (64bit) users type
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-server/1.3.0.0/9.fc7/x86_64/xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7.x86_64.rpm rpm -U --oldpackage xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7.x86_64.rpm
now we have to prevent xorg-x11-server-Xorg from upgrading so we blacklist it
gedit /etc/yum.conf
add
exclude=xorg-x11-server-Xorg
at the end and enjoy your 3D effects ……………