Hi The latest RPMs fixed this ""Error: couldn't get fbconfig" problem by including the special ATI libGL and I added a README.SuSE file. Hope this helps. Stefan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Using ATI GL library / GLX 1.3 API ---------------------------------- Some OpenGL applications might already require OpenGL extensions, which are only available in the GLX 1.3 API, whereas the standard OpenGL library only provides the GLX 1.2 API. Therefore ATI provides an OpenGL library, which adds some of the GLX 1.3 extensions. If you want to make use of this library with a program called "foobar", just do the following: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/fglrx/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH foobar This is already done with the ATI sample /usr/X11R6/bin/fgl_glxgears Details: /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/fglrx_sample_source.tgz : --> fgl_glxgears/README ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 03:22:55AM -0700, Claus Olesen wrote:
I just installed the latest ATI driver from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ATI/suse91/fglrx/3.9.0 I had the previous version 3.7.6 of the driver installed but /usr/X11/bin/fgl_glxgears didn't work then - exited immediately with "Error: couldn't get fbconfig" It now works - on 1st installation attempt. I've posted about this before but here's what I did this time in case usefull to someone having trouble with this as I had.
The data of my box - ATI 9600, ASUS A7N8X, AMD 2700 and SuSE 9.1 fully YOU updated including the lastest kernel kernel-source-2.6.5-7.75 kernel-default-2.6.5-7.75
a) First I removed Mesa rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-devel-4.3.99.902-40 rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-4.3.99.902-40 b) reboot c) I then installed the driver exactly as stated in the README. In addition but maybe not necessary I re-generated the /etc/X11/XF86Config running /usr/X11/bin/fglrxconfig - automatically getting the line Load "dri" as specified in 4) of the README. Noteworthy is maybe this line (allthough maybe already default) Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" d) reboot e) Lastly I installed the above removed Mesa packages from the DVD using YaST.
I've attached a ksnapshot of the fgl_glxgears - a rotating cube of rotating gears - in reduced size. In it's natural size fully exposed it is showing 315 FPS with the box doing nothing else. Don't know if that's good or bad.
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