On Tuesday 07 July 2009 11:01:23 am Clayton wrote:
If you have a driver version 2.1.8494 (from standard 11.1 repositories), it is *not* the ATI Catalyst (fglrx) driver. Check with "lsmod | grep fglrx". My *guess* is that you have actually installed the radeon or radeonhd driver which would explain the source of the problem. Report back.
I removed the fglrx driver, went to the ATI site and downloaded/installed the ATI Catalyst driver. All seemed to go OK... tried restarting X... didn't work, so rebooted, and now the computer is caught in a boot loop.. rebooting every time it tries to load X. Going to try to sort that now, to see if I can at least get it to boot to a CLI.
OK, after much weeping and gnashing of teeth, I managed to convince X to start up. Turns out.. since I had a clean install, I forgot to install gcc and the kernel-sources, so the manual install (from the GUI) failed, but did not actually report back any errors.. it just said install was successful... but since no gcc, and no sources, the kernel driver was not built... and well... splat...
I'll say "splat", not reporting lack of the kernel source and reporting a successful fglrx.ko module build is nuts. Even stranger is how the fglrx module got loaded to show with lsmod to begin with. At least in my understanding if the build failed due to lack of gcc and kernel-source, there should be no way the module should ever load to begin with to be reported by lsmod??? Mr. Dirsch -- what says you?
So installed the kernel-sources and gcc.. reinstalled the ATI catalyst driver from the CLI this time... used sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx to config xorg.conf... init 5 and X started.
Here is my current xorg.conf for my laptop x1200 (RS690M). http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/ati/xorg.conf.x1200.txt Take a look and compare with yours and see if anything jumps out at you. I don't get any strobing, but then I don't use mythTV. The only killer for me is trying to display video while compiz is running. In that case, yes, I get I guess what you call strobing. Hell, video will barely display -- ATI.... I have tried all the different video backends (xine, etc..) I still haven't found a working combination for that situation. Other than that, I get great performance with the 8-9 fglrx driver. Anything later than 8-9, is a complete letdown. Performance either drops to 50% of where it was with the 8-9 driver or my box just continually reboots (9-2 driver specifically) -- 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