Re: Radeon 9200SE problems with SUSE10.1

hjcooke@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Chad G wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:19:57 -0700, hjcooke 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?

After installing the driver from ATI, did you read the install notes in
/usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx??

Thanks for the pointer - I did do that but hidden within the folder is
this which describes my problem.
"Blank display using DVI connector on some RADEON 9200 boards

This information applies to the following:
ATI Proprietary Linux Driver
RADEON 9200 family graphics cards with DVI connector
When launching X-Windows, any monitor connected to the DVI port will
appear blank. The display appears fine for the text console, however.
Monitors connected to the VGA connector function normally.
Not all RADEON 9200 cards are affected.
This issue has been resolved in ATI Proprietary Linux Driver version
3.14 and later.#
But the driver I've installed is 8.28.8!!
looks like this combination doesn't work?


OK - more effort shows me that the xorg.conf file produced by the ATI
installer has device0 as PCI 1:0:0 - this is the address of the onboard
SIS video according to lspci. The Radeon card is shown by lspci as
0:0b:0 but if I edit the ATI xorg.conf file so that this is the address
for device0 (0:0b:0) I still get a blank screen. Any ideas?

.

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