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.
Well, originally I had installed the ATI driver (fglrx) from the ATI/openSUSE 11.1 repo. So, originally.. when I did the lsmod, the module should have shown... which it did. The splat happened after I removed the repo version of the driver, and installed... or attempted to install the driver i downloaded from the ATI/AMD website. The installer from ATI did not report back that there were any problems at all when I installed from within the GUI. It reported a successful install - although, there is no way there could have been a successful install since the kernel module was not built. After I got the rapid continuous reboot under control, I tried installing from the CLI. The installer unpacked the driver, asked a few questions, and then when it tried to build the kernel module, it just crashed with a couple screens of somewhat random appearing text mixed in with various system directories. No useful information at all... and it "broke" the terminal (I have to type "reset" to gt control back). That was about when I twigged that I had forgotten to install gcc and the kernel-sources before attempting to manually install the driver.
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.
My xorg.conf is almost identical. You have a few options different though... my xorg is here: http://www.digitaldragon.ca/xorg.1200.txt
The only killer for me is trying to display video while compiz is running.
I have Compiz turned off, so hopefully it's not a culprit here.
In that case, yes, I get I guess what you call strobing.
Well, if you are getting it, you would certainly notice... the whole screen flashes like a strobe light... rapid flashing.
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)
Don't you LOVE the driver naming scheme that ATI uses? Sigh... Anyway, now I am using the latest driver I could find on the ATI website... strobing is still an issue, although it is not as bad using the manually installed driver as it was using the repo driver. I still have to find time later today to install Gnome and see if it's more a KDE4 thing, or what. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org