On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:20, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 16:23, Grommley Spalanski wrote:
. I have also tried the instruction provided on the ATI website, both using the installer and generating a distibution specific driver package. As well, I have tried adding the ATI repository and adding the drivers through YaST (this resulted in MESA drivers). Some of these instructions left me with the MESA driver installed, but most of them ended with the same result that I have now.
CAREFULLY follow the instructions in the download from ATI, and build the rpm being careful to select the proper processor type.
Then install the rpm They type this as root: aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
That will build a proper xorg.conf for you.
There should be no reason to go into sax2 or yast, but if you want to launch sax2 you can by this command sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
Also, if after you get the xorg conf setup and you're still having problems run /usr/atigetsysteminfo.sh (best as root). In my case lsmod had shown the fglrx module loaded but it kept defaulting to Mesa software. After running atigetsysteminfo.sh it showed that it wasn't finding the fglrx_dri.so file but if I ran "locate fglrx_dri.so" it was indeed installed but in the wrong directory (either in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/ or /usr/lib/). I just had to copy the file to the directory it said it couldn't find it in and I had 3D. The points is that the ATI linux stuff has always been a bit on the kludgy side and often a PITA. If not this shell script I would still probably be cussing at ATI and swearing never to buy another of their cards (jury is still out on this contention). Cheers, Curtis. -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! I don't want a politician I can believe in. I simply want a politician I can believe! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org