ait driver & etracer


etracer was working crippled with the open source 3d driver so I tried
to install the proprietary ati drivers for a Radeon 9000 IP on a
Toshita a70.

ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run


from root shell:

ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run: Permission denied



as root from init 3:

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.28.8..
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Detected configuration:
Architecture: i686 (32-bit)
which: no XFree86 in (/usr/lib/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:
/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:
/opt/kde3/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:
/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:
/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/opt/gnome/bin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin)
X Server: unable to detect
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install





Run ati-check.sh from root shell OR as root init 3:

You are either not running this script from the console
or simply do not have console ownership. Requirement failed.
Unable to determine XFree86 Version. Stopping now.



So next I did a trial run of the online facilities via Yast and installed

ati-fglrxG01-kmp-pae
x11-video-flgrxG01


Now etracer doesn't work at all

X Error of failed request: BadRequest
(invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 20
Current serial number in output stream: 20



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