On Friday 30 December 2005 17:39, Paul Ryan wrote:
I just purchased a 9800 pro graphic card and I'm having trouble getting 3D to work.
I went to ATI and loaded the installer program and on reboot the computer wouldn't init level 5. Ran Sax2 and got my 2D graphic back.
(Note that during the installation I did not have the graphical ATI pics that the site shows,looked more like Yast in console)
I then went back to the ATI site and downloaded the RPM for my system and installed it with Yast, again upon reboot had to run Sax2 again to come to level 5
When I open a shell window and type "fglrxconfig" it starts working I quit after it asked for the name of my mouse (PS2)witch I couldn't find.
So basically I have two questions first what all does fglrxconfig want to know and if I go through the questions will 3D work or must I reinstall the RPM and run fglrxconfig from a failsafe boot?
You're not going to get 3D to work unless you follow all the instructions they supply to install the ATI drivers. One of those instructions is to run fglrxconfig to create a new X config file. I wonder if the drivers they provide will still run on 9.1 but the info they supply should tell you that. I *believe* you should still be using a /etc/X11/XF86Config file to run your X system. I would make a copy of that file before doing anything. Then follow the instructions. If things don't work right... copy over the created XF86Config file with the saved copy. But FOLLOW the instructions. It won't work otherwise.