On Wednesday 28 April 2004 12:31 pm, Damon Register wrote:
I have been searching the list archive to find a solution for my problem. Enabling 3D in sax2 doesn't work. I see in several messages that this has been discussed a lot so I would only like to ask if my understanding of all this is correct.
Am I correct in the following? 1. 3D will not work with SuSE 9.0 out of the box? 2. I need ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ATI/suse90/f glrx/3.7.6/ to get this working? 3. issues are as stated in README from item 2?
Damon Register ===========
Damon, The 8500 has been out for quite sometime now. I have seen support for this card since SuSE 8.1! 3D support came in 9.0 without adding anything, as it was fully supported in the kernel (fglrx module) and Sax2. I have customers running this card without problems, but they are full ATI cards, not clones with ATI chips. If the card is a "real" ATI card, it should be ok in 9.0 naturally, both 2D & 3D. If the card is from an oddball 3rd party maker of graphics cards, that could very well be where your problems are coming from. There should be several mails in the archives about the things you are asking about, as it has certainly been covered many times here. The more you muck around with trying the ATI driver & back to Sax2, etc., the more likely you are to get a messed up graphics system. If you try to use the ATI drivers, then stick with all ATI setup tools! If you try to use Sax2 after installing the ATI drivers, YOU WILL mess everything up the ATI drivers tried to do. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...