64bit Radeon Drivers

I've been trying for about a week now to get 64bit drivers for my x850xt to install properly in KDE, OpenSuse 10.2.

After much trial and error, I looked more closely at all the guides I've found, and they all mention something like this:

"Notes:
The drivers below support English only.
The display driver requires POSIX shared memory to be enabled on the system.
Kernel Source package is no longer required if Kernel Header package is installed.
32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit Linux drivers to install or work."--Ati.com

"Before following this tuturial please make sure you have the following 32-bit packages, as well as the 64-bit counterparts of the packages listed above in the 32-bit users section installed" --http://en.opensuse.org/Howto/ATI_Driver#64-bit_users

What does this mean? What do I need to have installed before I can install the drivers I downloaded from ati.com? All of my trials at this point have worked perfectly, right up until the
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
bit, wherein i get a no signal from my monitor and have to start all over.

I would really, really, appreciate some help with this.

Simply what it means is that you have to install the following packages; Note - many of these will have been installed by default when you installed SuSE.

* kernel-source
* compat-32bit
* qt3-32bit
* libstdc++
* libgcc
* xorg-x11-libs-32bit
* xorg-x11-devel-32bit
* Mesa-32bit
* Mesa-devel-32bit
* fontconfig-32bit
* expat-32bit
* freetype2-32bit
* zlib-32bit

* compat
* qt3
* xorg-x11-libs
* xorg-x11-devel
* Mesa
* Mesa-devel
* fontconfig
* expat
* freetype2
* zlib

Simply what it means is that you have to install the following packages; Note - many of these will have been installed by default when you installed SuSE.

* kernel-source
* compat-32bit
* qt3-32bit
* libstdc++
* libgcc
* xorg-x11-libs-32bit
* xorg-x11-devel-32bit
* Mesa-32bit
* Mesa-devel-32bit
* fontconfig-32bit
* expat-32bit
* freetype2-32bit
* zlib-32bit

* compat
* qt3
* xorg-x11-libs
* xorg-x11-devel
* Mesa
* Mesa-devel
* fontconfig
* expat
* freetype2
* zlib
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Okay, thank you. I'll make sure I have all of those before I try again.

I checked, and any one of those packages that I did not have, was installed. This attempt was on a clean installation of opensuse 10.2, because I had to completely re-install it to get Mesa working again after the last attempt at ati drivers. I followed the directions on the opensuse.org page to the letter. And despite ALL OF THAT, i STILL got a no signal to my monitor after running the sax2 configuration. This is bloody ridiculous, the amount of time I've put in to just getting my d*** video card to work.
http://en.opensuse.org/Howto/ATI_Driver
Now that it has failed again, I have another few hours of work ahead of me just trying desperately to get KDE to run again.
Please, if anyone sees something that I am doing wrong with this, tell me.

there was a good thread about the ati drivers and work arounds, are these the new drivers from Feb 21st?

If you were using the older driver versions ( dec 13th and jan 10th ) regardless how you installed them you needed to follow Zyzzy's instructions


1) add these lines to xorg.conf :
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "0"
EndSection

2) run command
gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl

3) reboot


This is after installing the drivers like this

run sh ./ati-......... the complete filename downloaded
press enter agreeing to custom ( there is no specific suse 10.2 option just use custom )
once finished run
# aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
# rcxdm restart

run fglrxinfo



hope this helps.

thanks for the reply
unfortunately,

When i ran the
# rcxdm restart
line, my monitor went immediately to "no signal"

Sympathies are extended Hyperblau. I too have an x850xt which I've used with the ati drivers on 10.0 and 10.1 (32 & 64 bit) but I can't get them to work on openSuSE 10.2 either. I've tried to use the ati installer, created a custom rpm, tried assigning the www2.ati.com repository all with no success. Every time I run sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx I get the 'no signal' error.

If you find a solution please post it. In the meantime I have reverted back to suse 10.1 which is working fine with the latest 8.34 drivers.