Problem With Ati 3d Config

I have installed the ati proprietary drivers, downloaded from ati.amd.com, but i don't have any 3d accel. i tried running the aticonfig --initial --force command. It all goes well, doesn't return any error, but still no 3d. Now, i tried reverting back to the initial xorg.conf file, but when i try using it, it doesn't offer 3d accel any more, as it did when i installed suse. Does anyone has any ideea on this?
Thx.

Forgot to manetion, my card is ati saphire radeon 9550 256vram DDR2

Hum.. that was problem before, but with newest drivers, everything gone smoothly for me.
I can't tell you now for certain, since I am at work on Ubuntu, but I have somewhere at home written down,...
have you ran the command that goes something like?:
~> sax2 -r -d 0=fglrx (humm can't remember, but something like it)
here in forum has this command, and as I remember, somewhere in ATI help.. or Suse help...

That enables ATI to work with SaX, so you can click 3d acceleration from YaST...

I hope that helped at least a bit.

well...i haven't really tried it...only ran aticonfig...
now that you mentioned it , i will try it right away...thanks...

nope...tried that but still doesn't work. The Enable 3d accel option in sax is available, but after i enable it and save the settings, the x-server i start still has no accel...

Is there anyway to revert to the radeon driver, that ships with suse? at least that one had 3daccel enabled by default.

have you checked the opensuse wiki? da link


on one of my systems, (ati) I simply installed and ran from command line

su
password
sax2 -r

then reboot after sax gui shows up and the settings are saved

that's it, nothing else and acceleration was enabled. double check the wiki, cause I don't know which version of SuSE you're on.
good luck

Thanks Keyser, but that still didn't do it. Nothing works. I tried with the specific rpms, but still nothing.Don't know what else to do. Is there anyway at least to go back to the initial suse radeon driver? Forgot to mention, i have suse 10.3.

I think i found something. As i was googling for info, i stumbled upon a site, which explained the basics on how to do it. There i saw the modprobe fglrx command, and i remembered that loads the fglrx kernel module. Tried that command but i get the following
dexter:/home/Andromeda # modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Module fglrx not found.
dexter:/home/Andromeda #

The ati driver is installed with the ati installer from ati.amd.com. I selected automatic install, and i did laso removed the previously installed rpms. Is there a chance that the installer is not able to create a kernel module? when i installed it i used te konsole, and there was no error....if the problem is indeed the kernel module, what do i do? i have the kernel-sources installed.

I just found a discrepancy between the kernel-default and the kernel sources. The kernel-default appears to be updated to the latest version from suse repos: 2.6.22.17-0.1 while the kernel source is 2.6.22.5-31.Should i update the kernel-sources as well, or shall i downgrade the kernel-default?
The ati installer i've got is ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run. Does this one work with the updated kernel?

Well, keyserSuSE told you the exact command, which I used also, remembered now.

su
password
sax2 -r

HOWEVER...
Since now I got better picture what you did, what you have etc, I may say that I had similar problem before, (kernels), so I didn't had trouble ever since because with new installation I always do following:
(just to mention that I am no linux expert, just expirience I gained by making a lot of problems to myself)

1. install kernel source, (selecting package during installation).
2. prohibit kernel updates with smart and online updates (I will explain why below).
3. recompile the kernel for my needs
4. install drivers (ATI+Printer -others, suse already has).

Now, let me tell you my expiriences with kernels.
Kernel which comes with distro is in my "prefere" list. Usually, it is checked and works. If you do not buy technology the same day it gets into sale (some turbo-mega-hyper-ultra hardware device) then you probably do not need newest kernel.

If you leave kernel updates and you do not specifically know what you are doing, you'll probably end the way you do: having/using kernel X, and having source for kernel Y.
This generates driver problems as many like to be compiled as a module

So, my advice for future is to always disable kernel updates, enter in current kernel source, disable things you certainly do not use and recompile the kernel.

My advice for now is to go into kernel source, type "make menuconfig", configure, compile and install kernel. It will be installed in GRUB, make it default (if everything works) and do not forget NOT TO delete the working one.
Then, go and install drivers.

well, i followed your advice man, i compiled my own kernel.then i tried installing the drivers using the 1-clic install... tried to configure, this timw when i click my computer it does shows driver:fglrx but still driver:fglrx(no3D support). In sax2 it does shows the check box to enable 3d and it is checked, however...no 3d...(reinstalled suse btw, before i compiled the kernel)...at least now i can revert back to the radeon driver...showld i remove the rpm's from the 1click install, and use the installer from ati.amd.com? Or is there anything else you can tell me? Thanks.

actually, this time I upgraded 10.2 to 10.3, I used packet manager but I do not recall manually installing driver and worked fine on the 1st attempt.
As I told you, before any of it, I recompiled the kernel (for my processor, as expirience from Gentoo minimal install tought me well :huh: )