Re: [SLE] ATI 9800 on 9.1

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On Fri December 30 2005 14:39, Paul Ryan wrote:
> I just purchased a 9800 pro graphic card and I'm having trouble getting
> 3D to work.
>
> I went to ATI and loaded the installer program and on reboot the
> computer wouldn't init level 5. Ran Sax2 and got my 2D graphic back.
>
> (Note that during the installation I did not have the graphical ATI pics
> that the site shows,looked more like Yast in console)
>
> I then went back to the ATI site and downloaded the RPM for my system
> and installed it with Yast, again upon reboot had to run Sax2 again to
> come to level 5
>
> When I open a shell window and type "fglrxconfig" it starts working I
> quit after it asked for the name of my mouse (PS2)witch I couldn't find.
>
> So basically I have two questions first what all does fglrxconfig want
> to know and if I go through the questions will 3D work or must I
> reinstall the RPM and run fglrxconfig from a failsafe boot?
>
> Thanks for your replies in advance
> Paul Ryan

Hi Ryan, I just went through a round of this with another user and solved the
problem. If you use the SaX2 walkthrough you should know that the ¨-r¨ flag
doesn´t work with the latest ATi drivers.

As per SuSE the command should be:

sax2 -r -m 0=fgrlx -b /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/profile/firegl

The -r flag tells sax to re-init the monitor database, but this is not working
as it did in earlier versions.

What we found is the using ¨-x¨ (xmode) or ¨-V¨ [ --vesa ] cause it to either
read the monitors DDC or similar or revert to standard X mode mod lines.

This solves the problem for most of us so far. It would be something along the
lines of:

sax2 -V -m 0=fgrlx -b /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/profile/firegl

or

sax2 -x -m 0=fgrlx -b /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/profile/firegl

So, one would use the ATi installer then back out of init 5 to init 3, call up
sax as above and it will write the file to /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of
XF86Config-4 as the ati fglrxconfig does by default. If you still insist on
using the fglrxconfig then just refuse to save the file (think it asks 2 or 3
times) and then it ask what (as in name) do you want to save the file to.
You can then tell it to save the file as XF86Config and copy this file
to /etc/X11. This may or may not work... some have had success while others
have not. But using SaX2 with either -x or -V (make sure this is CAPS) will
get you setup. You can then edit this file to put in other option like FSAA
or ansiotropic settings, et al.

HTH, Curtis.

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