Curtis Rey wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:44, Curtis Rey wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:20, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 16:23, Grommley Spalanski wrote:
. I have also tried the instruction provided on the ATI website, both using the installer and generating a distibution specific driver package. As well, I have tried adding the ATI repository and adding the drivers through YaST (this resulted in MESA drivers). Some of these instructions left me with the MESA driver installed, but most of them ended with the same result that I have now.
CAREFULLY follow the instructions in the download from ATI, and build the rpm being careful to select the proper processor type.
Then install the rpm They type this as root: aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
That will build a proper xorg.conf for you.
There should be no reason to go into sax2 or yast, but if you want to launch sax2 you can by this command sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
Also, if after you get the xorg conf setup and you're still having problems run /usr/atigetsysteminfo.sh (best as root). In my case lsmod had shown the fglrx module loaded but it kept defaulting to Mesa software. After running atigetsysteminfo.sh it showed that it wasn't finding the fglrx_dri.so file but if I ran "locate fglrx_dri.so" it was indeed installed but in the wrong directory (either in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/ or /usr/lib/). I just had to copy the file to the directory it said it couldn't find it in and I had 3D.
The points is that the ATI linux stuff has always been a bit on the kludgy side and often a PITA. If not this shell script I would still probably be cussing at ATI and swearing never to buy another of their cards (jury is still out on this contention).
Cheers, Curtis.
Sorry! that was /usr/sbin/atigetsysteminfo.sh
Just another long line of typos for me :D
Curtis.
I have tried reinstalling it from scratch (just in case I screwed something up in my inexperience). In fact, I tried several times, just in case I forgot something or missed something. I have had the same results. I checked the file suggested by Curtis, and found the following error messages. AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_200507 AIGLX: reverting to software rendering If I run glxinfo, it shows direct rendering on and the driver correctly displays Ati. Any further thoughts on this? Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org