David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
CyberOrg wrote:
On 10/20/07, Ben Kevan
wrote: On Monday 22 October 2007 10:22:43 am Sloan wrote:
cyberpunks wrote:
Install ati 8.40 drivers. Remove official ati drivers and ati repository and click here to install the version that is supposed to work on most ATI hardware:
http://opensuse-community.org/ati-legacy.ymp
Do not run sax2 after installation.
Check if symlink to Xgl is created properly:
ll /usr/bin/X lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 21 23:02 /usr/bin/X -> /usr/bin/Xgl
Done,
[root Rankin-P35a/home/david] # ll /usr/bin/X lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2007-10-22 18:56 /usr/bin/X -> /usr/bin/Xgl [root Rankin-P35a/home/david] # rpm -qa | grep fgl ati-fglrxG01-kmp-default-8.40.4_2.6.22.9_0.4-1 x11-video-fglrxG01-8.40.4-1 Bad news, following the advise to the tee, glx isn't even loaded, the driver is using Mesa? glxinfo: OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1) OpenGL extensions: glxgears frame rate is 1/10 of what it was. fgl_glxgears will not even run: [root Rankin-P35a/home/david] # fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 159 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent) Serial number of failed request: 33 Current serial number in output stream: 33 Any additional thoughts? I have the ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run, and I'll build the 8.40 drivers from that and try again. The http://opensuse-community.org/ati-legacy.ymp was not the ticket on my Toshiba P35 laptop with the ATI 9700 card. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org