If you downloaded them off the ATI website, then they state there that they do not work with kernel 2.6............. George On Tuesday 01 June 2004 08:39, Tim wrote:
I'm having problems getting the official ATI driver installed under SuSE 9.1, using kernel 2.6 (2.6.4-54.5-default exactly) and XFree86 4.3.
i installed the kernel source and grabbed the .rpm from ati (fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm).
i installed it as described on the ATI site and the output suggests that no errors occured.
the complete output of the installation scripts can be found at http://www.sp1r1t.de/div/ati_linux/ati_linux.txt
as lsmod shows, the module is loaded, but 3d acceleration is not available and there are some errors in the X logs that are no doubt related to the kernel module (it is called fglrx), especially the following lines :
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx" (II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed! (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* * (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xc0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000 (II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1280,8191) (II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1280,1024) (front color buffer - assumption) (==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled (==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1024) (II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7163 (**) Option "dpms" (**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled (II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
but i don't know what to try now.
the complete X11 logs can be found at http://www.sp1r1t.de/div/ati_linux/xf86log.txt
any suggestions? thanx in advance,
Tim