Ati drivers, no mouse detection in Fedora Core 2

[losmescaleros 0]

Another chapter in my ongoing struggle to install Ati video drivers...

Last night, I was trying to install Ati drivers for my card by following this guide

www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon

I got to the part where you are supposed to shut down X console despite the fact I wasn't sure if what I had done worked... Bad idea... So I continued until the point where I needed to enter run level 5, but when I tried to get into that, I received the error that my mouse pointer could not be located and got the following , which I had to hand write -

 

(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time:

(EE) Unable to locate/open config file

xf86AutoConfig: Primary PCI is 1:0:0

Running "usr/x11R6/bin /getconfig -X60700000-I /etc/X11,?usr/X11R6/etc/X11,/usr/x11R6/lib/modules,/usr/x11R6/lib/X11/getconfig -v 0x1002 -d

getconfig.pl: Version 1.0

getconfig.pl: Xorg Version: 6.7.0.0

getconfig.pl: 23 built-in rules

getconfig.pl: file '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg' has bad signature.

getconfig.pl: no rules in file 'usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg'.

getconfig.pl: Evaluated 23 rules with 0 errors

getconfig.pl: Weight of result is 500

New driver is "ati"

(==) Using default built in configuration (53 lines)

(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device

(EE) <default pointer>: Cannot find which device to use

(EE) xf86OpenSerial: No Device specified

(EE) <default pointer>: cannot open input device

(EE) Pre Init failed for input device "<default pointer>"

No Core pointer

 

Please, forgive my noobitity, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[Dapper Dan 0]

I know I'm gonna piss off ATI users by saying this, but if you use Linux, NVIDIA is the only way to go as far as I'm concerned.

 

Yes, I have one box with Fedora Core 2 running an ATI Mach 64, and it works well, but having used both cards for a while under several different distros, it is my opinion that NVIDIA beats ATI hands down as far as compatibility is concerned.

 

ATI makes smokin' cards, many of which will run circles around a comparable NVIDIA card when both are configured correctly, but NVIDIA is really on the ball with supporting their cards under Linux.

 

In the old days, configuring an NVIDIA card under Linux was a ten day nightmare. It's so easy now, it's almost no fun..

 

So essentially I'm saying, Get a Linux compatible NVIDIA card, if the ATI presently motivates you to polish your firearms...