On Wednesday 15 December 2004 04:40 pm, john bailo wrote:
I just recently installed the ATI Radeon 9200 driver that I downloaded from the Suse ftp site.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/suse91/fglrx/3.1 4.6/
While the drivers work very good, there have been all kinds of bad side effects.
For one, I am no longer able to see DVDs playing correctly ( using ogle or mplayer ).
(1) They play in an image that is 1/4 the screen size ( here is a screenshot :
http://home.earthlink.net/~jabailo/imgs/mplayer_too_small_image.jpg )
(2) someone suggested using the "-vo sdl" switch, but at that point the DVD plays jerkily and slow. This reminded me of the way it played before I configured my DMA settings. But when I launched Control Center to configure my DMA settings, an alert popped up saying
"No compatible disk controller found".
Before installing the ATI driver I was able to configure the DMA settings.
(3) I cannot configure my mouse to be left handed. When I try to configure that via Control Center, the left/right handed radio button is greyed out. I have to run a line command, using xmodmap. But I have to run it each time I sign on ( and I dual boot, so I sign on a lot ). =============
Why would you want to install the ATI driver? The 9200 is well supported using the radeon module in the kernel and with sax2. You also may want to update to the X.org drivers from SuSE's mirrors, if you are still running XFree86 files. Don't forget to update your sax2 files as well. Those will be needed to get the best setup from your new Xorg files. All those should be located close to where you got the ATI drivers. I'm running the 9200 myself and everything sets up nicely without the ATI drivers installed. regards, Lee