On Sunday 02 November 2003 07:58 am, Gideon Hallett wrote:
On Sunday 02 November 2003 03:57, Vitaly Shishakov wrote: [...] hang on, I see ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ XFree86/ATI/suse90/fglrx has been added since I was last looking.
Scrub what I was going to say *g*
best wishes,
Gideon. ==============
Ok, guys, I think you may be making this a bit more difficult than it should be. There is no need to build the kernel module, if you are running SuSE 9.0 or one of Mantel's updated 2.4.21 kernels. Thanks to ATI's cooperation with the Linux community, the modules are included in the kernels already. I suspect that the XFree86 version included with 9.0 is a bit more updated than the one included with 8.2, but if not, you should still be able to get 2d using the framebuffer VESA settings with sax2. I did after installing my 9200LE. If the XFree86 4.3.x is in fact updated in 9.0, then full support may be there as it is for many of the ATI cards. Because my XFree86 version did not support the 9200, I chose to use the ATI drivers from their site, which SuSE also provides. Gideon found the newer ones. I just downloaded from ATI and installed with excellent results again. All one needs to do is install the fglrx-glc22 rpm file and run the fglrxconfig program from the shell. After configuring this, a new XF86config-4 file will be created where XF86config use to be. DO NOT RUN SAX2 before or after doing ATI's config as you will lose, mess up the ATI settings. DO NOT install or try to load the agpgart module as ATI provides one with it's drivers. After getting your config file setup, restart X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and you should have your 3D working nicely. Check your menu to find the ATI control center to check if AGP and things are working. If you only have MESA listed, then the 3D settings did not kick in, try restarting X again. You will get an error when the driver installs and complains about not being able to build a kernel module for your kernel, but this should not be a problem. Things like 3Ddiag will not work with the new ATI 3.2.8 driver, it did with the 3.2.5 driver I had installed. I am sure the 3Ddiag will be updated to resolve that. Check glxinfo, to be sure direct rendering is on, a good sign things are looking good. Gears will not work reliably, so use glxgears to get better results. Also for ATI, you now have fgl-glxgears to play with. This program will really tax the 3D engine. Hope that helps a bit to get your 9200 kicking. Regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...