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    mitchell2345 Guest

    switching video cards nVidia to ATI

    Hi,

    Right now i have a nVidia 6600GT installed and it works great. I am building a new mythTV box and want to put this card in it. (i need the component out) I have a older ATI 9200 that I would like to through in. So, how do i do this.

    I imaging I first need to get ahold of a fresh xorg.conf file. using the vesa driver.
    then remove the nvidia drivers.
    then, cp xorg.conf_vesa xorg.conf
    install card.
    then install ati drivers via yum.

    Is this correct? Where can a get a plain xorg.conf file. Mine is highly modified for Component out.

    Thanks,
    Mitchell

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    JonC Guest
    a 9200 can happily use the open source driver. I suggest setting up the new xorg.conf, then shutting down, swapping cards, and booting.

    Easy as that.
    Last edited by JonC; 21st December 2006 at 08:09 PM. Reason: spelling

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    I don't think open-source driver has TV-OUT though. I'd copy the xorg.conf like you said, and from there get the v8.28.8 fglrx driver from the ATI site as after that the 9200 is no longer supported.
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    but where or how can i get ahold of a basic xorg.conf?

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    Move your current one to a safe place and run 'system-config-display'
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    JonC Guest
    Cheers Firewing. I hadn't realised TV-out was missing. Lucky you're here, or my advice would have sent poor mitchell into a land of no screen!

    Apologies to you both.

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    mitchell2345 Guest
    so i am trying to install the ATI driver. Why i install it this is what is in the log.

    Code:
    [Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
    [Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
    [Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
    ATI module generator V 2.0
    ==========================
    initializing...
    Error:
    kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/build/include do not match current kernel.
    they are versioned as ""
    instead of "2.6.18-1.2849.fc6".
    you might need to adjust your symlinks:
    - /usr/include
    - /usr/src/linux
    [Error] Kernel Module : Failed to compile kernel module - please consult readme.
    Whats the deal?
    Thanks,
    Mitchell

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    Please check out my ATi howto - At the bottom there's a section for manual installs, after running those commands things should go better. To rebuild the module after that's done, open a terminal, 'cd' into /lib/modules/fglrx and type 'make'
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    leigh123linux Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by mitchell2345
    so i am trying to install the ATI driver. Why i install it this is what is in the log.

    Code:
    [Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
    [Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
    [Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
    ATI module generator V 2.0
    ==========================
    initializing...
    Error:
    kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/build/include do not match current kernel.
    they are versioned as ""
    instead of "2.6.18-1.2849.fc6".
    you might need to adjust your symlinks:
    - /usr/include
    - /usr/src/linux
    [Error] Kernel Module : Failed to compile kernel module - please consult readme.
    Whats the deal?
    Thanks,
    Mitchell

    try

    su -
    yum -y update kernel-devel
    yum -y install gcc* rpm-build

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    mitchell2345 Guest
    when i run..

    Code:
    yum install kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
    yum wants to upgrade my kernel to 2869. But when i do that ivtv doesnt work. I removed fglrx and then new kernel. Now ivtv works.

    How do i just install the 2868 kernel version?

    Firewing...is this the instructions you are refering too..
    Code:
    su -
    rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
    yum install kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
    yum update kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
    service ati-fglrx restart
    ati-fglrx-config-display enable
    setsebool -P allow_execstack=1
    setsebool -P allow_execmod=1
    Thanks,
    Mitchell

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    In that case, I'll show you a little trick: If you browse directly to the Livna repos, you can download the fglrx kmod for a ton of old kernels! I'm assuming you're using 32-bit Fedora, browse here:
    http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/
    Now download the two files needed for your kernel:
    kmod-fglrx-8.31.5-1.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6.i686.rpm ( that i686 is important: Don't download the i586 variant )
    xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8-31.5.i386.rpm
    Install those, then run the same commands you posted above but just skip all the 'yum' ones.
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