[SOLVED] Problems with Graphic driver (F13).

[HDLA]

Hello. I've been searching the internet for hours and I'm still stuck at my problem so I decided to post it here and hopefully someone will help me.

I had a fresh install of Fedora 13, and I want to install a driver for my ATI Radeon 3650 Powercolor Video card. I went to this site AMD.com | Support & Downloads
and downloaded ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run (a graphic driver installer for linux, and for my card i think). But one of the requirements in order to run it is XOrg 6.8, 6.9, or up to 7.5.
So I downloaded X11R6.8.1-src.tar.gz from Xorg site.

I used the command
tar -zvxf X11R6.8.10-src.tar.gz
cd to path
but when I type ./configure , it says no such file or directory.

What can I do to solve this problem, or anyone has an easier way to install a graphic driver?

Thanks in advance.

[reed9]

Generally the open source radeon driver is quite good. 3D acceleration is limited for you card at this time though. (You have a RV635).
DRI Wiki - ATIRadeon

Were you having graphics problems with the default driver?

Anyway, if you want to install the proprietary catalyst driver, here is a guide.
Fedora 13 ATI Catalyst (fglrx) 10.7 Drivers Install/Uninstall

[HDLA]

Hi. Thanks for replying. I followed the guide on your link, but when I tried to check what driver my desktop is using,
with

glxinfo |grep -i "\(render\|opengl\)"

results:

X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 137 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 24
Current serial number in output stream: 24

and when I tried to enable desktop effects, my system says

Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.

Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type

but with lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 2600 Series]

Thanks for your help.

[HDLA]

Problem solved.

I just have to install the latest ATI Catalyst Proprietary Display Driver (ATI Catalyst™ 10.8 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver ) from this link
AMD Support.

I'm running Fedora 13 kernel 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686 with ATI Radeon Powercolor
HD3650 Video Card on 19" widescreen display.

I can use now any desktop effects.

Thank you reed9 for the guide, and for your help. I appreciate it. I hope someone in trouble may find
this useful.