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Hi,

I am trying to install the ATI FireGL card under Opensuse 10.3 64 bits. For this I downloaded the new driver from ATI (7.12) which supports boths card and distribution. The installation in automatic mode works fine. I ran aticonfig --initial -f and it works fine.

However I cannot see the card when I run sax2 so that I always keep the generic Vesa Framebuffer instead of the ATi card.

If I run fglrxinfo, I get

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1)

Whats wrong? How can I force Suse to use the driver?


Thanks.

Hi, did you just install the driver or did you also compile the kernel module and then modprobe it?
I do not run SuSE so i don't know the exact procedure and names, but i think the installer creates four to five rpm's. Just install all of them (easiest ) with rpm. The fglrx-kernel or fglrx-kernel-src rpm then should compile the actual kernel module,that has to be loaded with modprobe. You then have to restart the xserver.
There is a logfile in /var/log/ for the xserver or for kdm.Browse these files for errors (marked EE).

Good luck
Micha

Hi,


I just used the standard procedure given by ATI
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/ ... -inst.html

There is also an option for creating rpm, but I would have thought that it is not necessary to install properly the driver.

Thanks.

Hi,

I installed the 7.12 on a t60p/v5200, i did it by manually building an rpm and installing from console.
The binary downloaded driver file builds one rpm only.
So far it seems to work, but i'm very unsure.
fglrxinfo reports everything correctly - but xorg.conf suggests that it uses vesa with driver = "fglrx". This looks wrong, considering the xorg.conf was updated with aticonfig as you also did.
I haven't got more time to play around with it now - after christmas.

But did you do this from a console ? -
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

If it doesn't work, I'd recommend you to uninstall everything by the name of fglrx in 'Yast' and then following the instructions here:
http://en.opensuse.org/ATI_Driver_HOWTO ... ATI_driver

If there are any errors when compiling, then you will know what they are instead of relying on the ati installer gui.