Re: Radeon 9200SE problems with SUSE10.1

hjcooke@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Suse installs this video card as vesa. Any attempt to use Sax2 either
by the command line or the Yast version results in a blank screen
without any input after the sax2 command. Screen refresh is then
incredibly slow with vesa so I tried to install the ATI drivers using
the installer from their web site. This does not generate any errors
but restarting X with a cntrl-alt-backspace gets back to a blank
screen. cntrl-alt-F1 gets me back to a terminal and reverting to the
Xorg.conf file from installation or uninstalling the fglrx drivers gets
me back to a working display.
I think the only way to fix this is by editing the xorg.conf file
created by the ATI installer but I have no Idea which bits. Can any one
guide me?
This can be indeed a time consuming task. A few guidelines:
1. Try to investigate each line of your /var/log/Xorg log file. Look for
errors in this file and compare it with xorg.conf
2. Rename the hopefully still available OLD xorg.conf and vsplit it in vi.
ATI will have added lots of stuff (don't know what, never used ATI).
3. NEVER use sax2, it should be renamed to sucks2
taco
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