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On Wednesday 04 February 2009 03:02:16 pm Nkoli wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Peter Bradley
wrote: Do you think there's any mileage in doing as Mike suggests and getting the config file regenerated. I'm a bit nervous of things like that, so I guess I'm after a second opinion. Sorry, Mike. It's not that I don't trust you. I don't trust me.
Cheers
Peter
I'd definitely recommend rerunning sax. As far as I can tell, the only change "aticonfig --initial" makes to your xorg.conf is to add one line to load the fglrx driver, which may or may not be useful if your xorg.conf has been modified to work best with the radeon driver. If you use "sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx" your /etc/xorg.conf will be replaced with the default configuration for the fglrx driver - ie working 3D, compositing and a few others. You can use that as a base if you want to tweak xorg.conf in the future.
Nkoli
List, the way i got my ati card to work has always been as follows: 1. download the last two ati drivers from ati.com. 2. remove all ati/fgrlx shtuff that yast /initial install has thrown in. 3. do a "sh ati...blablabla bla" install. 4. run aticonfig --initial, sometimes the full command with "input = /etc/X11/xorg.conf" or whatever the full command line is. 5. REBOOT! even an rcxdm restart will not do, the stoopid driver thinks it 's installed on windows or something!!!!!!!!! if the card fails on the latest, usually it is good on the next to the last driver. this has worked well for the past 2 years, suse 10.2 , 10.3 and the minimal test install of 11.0. have not had the guts for 11.1 yet, probably i will wait for 11.2, 3 or something like that, i guess i am not brave enough... d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org