1. Take a look at your
/var/log/Xorg.0.log file, see what error and warning messages are present.
2. The importance of
/etc/X11/xorg.conf is diminishing these days. A lot of the traditional entries are superfluous now. E.g. all those font and module statements, and mode lines, can come out.
3. Over in
Setup an ATI card with the new FGLRX drivers for Compiz-Fusion - Compiz Community Forums, member
djdoo has authored hundreds of notes regarding ATI driver setup in OpenSUSE.
4. Remove your
/etc/ati/amdpcsdb file, restart X. Don't worry, it gets rebuilt.
5. Take a look at
/usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log, see where things go wrong.
6. The latest ATI driver notes recommend not running SAX2, just
amdcccle.
7. I have a radeon 2600 card. With the latest ATI fglrx driver, I just run it and accept all the defaults. It works fine.
HTH