ATI Radeon X1270 drivers

[tcubed_bus]

Thoughts-
Take a look at /usr/src/ati/fglrx-install.log for hints on what if anything went wrong with the install.

See the work of user djdoo at Compiz Community Forums - Powered by vBulletin relating to setting up ATI cards. Lots of good info, not all of which pertains to compiz.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log, see the "EE" entries.

You probably have way too much stuff in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Most of the font and mode entries can be dispensed with, for instance--the information is gotten directly.

HTH

[TKS1125]

OK if anyone is having blackout problems here is an idea that might take some time but it worked for me. after having problems for several months and a lot of reading i came to the conclusion this was a software issue within suse. i was right. the drivers were not working with the newer version of suse.
on a 64 bit system the way i fixed this issue was to install 11.0 32 bit system using kde 3.5 and the glfrx drivers would install properly without 3d support. then i ran an update using the 11.1 dvd and it updated everything. once done the ati drivers were still installed and updated to the new kernel, and i now have 3d support wich is great. after all of that i then removed the ati repository so it would not change the settings i have set up. this was the only way i could get it to work......

[cmcgrath5035]

TKS1125, did you update to 11.1_32 or 11.1_64?

I assume you use Catalyst 9.3 from ATI or fglrx_01 from Suse?

[TKS1125]

I used the 32 bit version as the 64 bit version would not work with the ati drivers at all. i do not know why the 64 version would not work at all. but everything runs fine the way it is.
and no i did not download the catalyst at all this was all automatically done when i did the updating from 11.0 to 11.1