No luck with Radeon HD 4870 and fglrx

[lostowl]

I as well have had trouble with the ATI on 64 bit. Here is what I did:

1) I installed compat-32bit and all of the libraries listed under the 64bit section of the 3. The Hard Way on the how to page. I made sure all the 32-bit libraries were installed. Note that Compat is incompatible with compat-32bit, so I only installed the 32-bit version. Also, there is no compat-libstdc++, so I installed all of the libstdc++ with all the numbers afterwards. Nothing reported any conflicts.

2) I then ran downloaded and installed the 9-4 driver from ATI.

3) I ran these commands exactly:

a) sax2 -r
b) aticonfig --initial -f
c) aticonfig --acpi-services=off <--- I got this from the ubuntu forums
d) sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

After this, the 3d started working, however, I can't get multi screen to work well, even using the ATI Control panal.

So, I have the compiz working on the laptop. I wonder if the acpi-services switch was the trick. It's the only new thing I tried from all these forums and it seemed to work. I hope this helps.

[kattice]

Okay. My issue has been resolved.

I'm using openSuse 11.1 64bit with Quad Core Intel. The video card is XFX HD4870 (overclocked version).

After so many tried and stuff, it seems my issue was that I was missing kernel-source. Before I install ATI driver, I installed kernel-source, compat-32bit,..... gcc (you can get the list at ATI - openSUSE)

After getting all that, I did online update.

I download latest ATI driver which is ati-driver-installer-9-4.... so on.

I used default with automatic option. After installation, I checked any error in a file (fglrx-install.log), and you can find this file at /usr/share/ati.

If there is no error, you are good to go. If you have error, you are missing some kernel-source or gcc. (If you get error, I'm not really sure what needs to be done. I ended up reinstall suse. )

Last step is

aticonfig --initial



After that restart xwin or just reboot.

you can type fgl_glxgears in terminal to test 3D.

I hope this helped. By the way, thank you for replying Havoc65.

[Havoc65]

kattice wrote:

>
> Okay. My issue has been resolved.
>
> I'm using openSuse 11.1 64bit with Quad Core Intel. The video card is
> XFX HD4870 (overclocked version).
>
> After so many tried and stuff, it seems my issue was that I was missing
> kernel-source. Before I install ATI driver, I installed kernel-source,
> compat-32bit,..... gcc (you can get the list at 'ATI - openSUSE'
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Ati))
>
> After getting all that, I did online update.
>
> I download latest ATI driver which is ati-driver-installer-9-4.... so
> on.
>
> I used default with automatic option. After installation, I checked
> any error in a file (fglrx-install.log), and you can find this file
> at
> /usr/share/ati.
>
> If there is no error, you are good to go. If you have error, you are
> missing some kernel-source or gcc. (If you get error, I'm not really
> sure what needs to be done. I ended up reinstall suse. )
>
> Last step is
>
> aticonfig --initial
>
>
>
> After that restart xwin or just reboot.
>
> you can type fgl_glxgears in terminal to test 3D.
>
> I hope this helped. By the way, thank you for replying Havoc65.
>
>
Glade i was able to help theres been times i forgot kernel-source myself lol
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Cheers Havoc65