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I made one of the biggest mistakes - I changed old and progressively dying NVidia for Asus ATI Radeon HD 4670. This makes up my life.
I never expected that Radeon is so hardly installed. I tried that: ATI - openSUSE and that: No luck with Radeon HD 4870 and fglrx - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums for installation and troubleshouting. I tried the original ATI driver and Catalyst => the command "sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx" gives black screen and locks up the rig. The driver from one of the SuSE repositories after installation and "sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx" affords funny parti-colored screen,but doesnt freeze the machine. I tried many times to play around - in one case the driver installed and the X started, but the fglrx module was not loaded. Now I'm running VESA driver, and the fglrx module is loaded: ------------------------ lsmod | grep fglrx fglrx 2447968 0 ------------------------ hwinfo --gfxcard ¦ card 11: PCI 8100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.310] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_9490 Unique ID: rESj.MP_+tC9em7D Parent ID: Exw8.wxFwtL2jas4 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:0e.0/0000:81:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:81:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "ATI VGA compatible controller" Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc" Device: pci 0x9490 SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x0294 Driver: "fglrx_pci" Driver Modules: "fglrx" Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (rw,prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xc0900000-0xc090ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0x4000-0x4fff (rw) Memory Range: 0xc0920000-0xc093ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 19 (29587 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00009490sv00001043sd00000294bc03sc0 0i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: fglrx is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe fglrx" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #12 (PCI bridge) ------------------------ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 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: 14 Current serial number in output stream: 14 ------------------------ Please, can someone tell me what's goning on ??? Thnx |
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I recompiled kernel without KVM. Doesn't help. "sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx" locks up the machine completely in all cases. Then I uninstalled native ATI driver & Catalyst and reinstalled the Suse Community driver. "aticonfig --initial" and "sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx"It gives a bit better result - it does not lock up the machine (vide supra) but renders a screen where I can see like four quadrants each one containing one and the same blured image, and the loading of the xserver is continuing, cause I get the diagnostic sound. The content of the xorg.conf is: # /.../ # SaX generated X11 config file # Created on: 2009-07-02T20:04:32+0200. # # Version: 8.1 # Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005 # Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users> # # Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1) # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! # Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" EndSection Section "Files" InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata" InputDevices "/dev/input/mice" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/xtest" FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "extmod" Load "glx" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on" Option "ZapWarning" "on" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Driver "kbd" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" Option "XkbModel" "pc102" Option "XkbOptions" "caps:shiftlock" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Driver "mouse" Option "Buttons" "9" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name" "ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse" Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" ModeLine "1600x1200" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor[0]" VendorName "SAM" ModelName "SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER" UseModes "Modes[0]" DisplaySize 408 306 HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 75.0 Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool" Option "DPMS" Option "PreferredMode" "1280x960" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device[0]" Driver "fbdev" VendorName "VESA" BoardName "Framebuffer Graphics" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen[0]" Device "Device[0]" Monitor "Monitor[0]" SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "default" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "default" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "default" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "default" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group "video" Mode 0660 EndSection ---------------------------------------------- And the fglrx daemon is not loaded (lsmod | grep fglrx renders nothing). Unfortunately, I'm not able to turn SaX2 back to using VESA driver. Sax2 doesnt boot, for instance, SaX2 -a and then SaX2 doesnt help. Only the uninstalling of the driver enables running X with VESA... I do not understand what's going on. ATI must pay me for my wasted time and all these troubles. More, they have to highlight everywhere that their graphic cards are NOT suitable for Linux (in most cases: see, how many complaints are on the forum). Merde. |
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>I do not understand what's going on. ATI must pay me for my >wasted time and all these troubles. More, they have to highlight >everywhere that their graphic cards are NOT suitable for Linux >(in most cases: see, how many complaints are on the forum). >Merde. Welcome to linux and the surprises! We all do a lot of unpaid work for the major vendors. In the early days linux was for geeks and you had to know exactly what hardware you had and for it to even install and then for Xwindows, exactly what your moonitor's specs were. Thankfully most of that has changed. I would either try: 1. Start in run level 3 and then type the aticonfig --initial and then configure sax2. If you get sax to run, start with a vesa monitor at 60 hz. or 2. run it all by unplugging the monitor from the kvm and plugging it all into the pc and starting afresh. Some of the cheaper kvm's don't allow a pass through for the monitor and the same goes for some of the high end ones (my old hp/compaq rackmount one is the same - it was designed for a max screen of 1024x768) and this messes up sax's autodetect routine. |
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KVM here is for a Keyboard, Video, Monitor switch.
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In this context what the the following means :
2. run it all by unplugging the monitor from the kvm and plugging it all into the pc and starting afresh. ? sorry |
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Make sure that your monitor is directly connected to the pc - ie it doesn't have any keyboard, video, mouse switch in the loop. Boot to run level 3 login as root and run /usr/bin/aticonfig --initial. Next configure sax by typing: sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx (The 0 is number zero not a letter) Once you have monitor configured, exit sax and type startx to get the xServer running. If everything is fine, reboot and login as usual. If you are still having problems, use yast in level 3 to remove the ati repo driver and download and install the ati driver from their site. Do the automated install in run level 3. Make sure you have first downloaded the latest kernel development for your kernel (also from yast.) |
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The "sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx" gives again a screen composed of 4 quadrants - a sort of blured pink & black picture in each quadrant. No progress. Thus, I had to shut it with ctrl-alt-del. Surprisingly, the yast2-mediated deinstallation of the fglrx drivers removed some configuration files (an authority issue) of the xorg server, thus, I had to reinstall it... What can I say. These drivers are not compatible with the card I have (Asus HD4670). If somebody would like to buy my graphic card (it is brand new), I can sell this **** for 40-50 euros (the origonal price 67 euros in France)... |
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