Hello. I have the same problem and I installed from the DVD. My temporary solution is to go runlevel 3 from grub and login as root. After this I just type init 5 and evertything works!! This is very weird!!
Problem is that I have to do this everytime I boot my laptop.
And yes I have the same videocard: ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
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> Unfortunly, this do not work for me… (ATI Radeon XPRESS 200)
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I also have an xpress 200 (200m). tried sax2 -r -m 0=ati and it worked ok
until I clicked to save the configuration button. That’s where it
blackscreened and is still there a few minutes later. sax2 has not returned
to the command prompt (I had gone to init 3) before running sax2.
I have now just forcibly powered off and on again.
The lappy came back up first time and I see that sax2 did not update
xorg.conf. I’ll try a few more reboots and see if something else has
magically improved the blackscreen problem - but I suspect not.
This posting is coming from my very stable 11.1 x64 desktop (nvidia 6600gt
and proprietary driver). Stable is not a word I would use for my 11.2 x64
laptop with the ATI Radeon Xpress 200M (chip 5975).
What if you modify xorg.conf manually? add driver radeon or driver ati? I think it should also work without an xorg.conf as well, so might also be worth a shot.
/var/log/xorg.0.log should show what errors are happening.
I’ve got an xpress 200M so I’d be very intreested in hearing if you got it working
I’ve tryed every workaround discussed here in openSUSE foruns (and others forums, too), but none was capable of make an xpress 200 work with openSUSE 11.2.
It seems that all users with a relatively old ATI graphic card is having a lot of problems to make openSUSE 11.2 work. Indeed, it does not work at all (at least the graphic interface).
I have to downgrade my Dell Vostro 1000 to openSUSE 11.1 again. It’s very disappointing, because we have 6 notebooks with the same configuration and I could not upgrade to openSUSE 11.2.
I was having the same issue and I resolved it the same way with sax2 -r -m 0=ati but I can’t get the display setting 1440X900 to work. I am currently set at 1152X864 without 3D. I would like to get this fixed but ot sure how.:embarrassed:Other that that all is well with oS.
Just an update. I did do the install of the ATI Prop drivers and now I have a new shiney openSUSE system. This is the first tine I have been able to get everything working sense version 10 <:)
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> What if you modify xorg.conf manually? add driver radeon or driver ati?
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> /var/log/xorg.0.log should show what errors are happening.
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> I’ve got an xpress 200M so I’d be very intreested in hearing if you got
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manual setup of xorg.conf does not make a difference, still get intermittent
black screen startups.
xorg.0.log files have lots in them, but nothing shouts at me like “here’s
the problem!”
I currently have the default display and window managers set to xfce,
instead of kdm amd kde4, just to rule out kde. No difference.
I am now running without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf* files (moved them to
another folder) and X11 starts, but not consistently.
Thinking of trying the 9.3 proprietary drivers, but not tonight.
Apparently, 9.3 is the latest that supports the 200 series, among many
others. I also thought I saw mention that 9.3 is too old to support the 11.2
kernel, but others seem to have it running. Hope to try this tomorrow all
being well.
I am more and more inclined to think it’s an X11 7.4 in conjunction with the
kernel type of problem, but no evidence to support that yet.
I also reckon it is xorg + mesa + new kernel that is the issue.
As far as I have been able to google[sic], the old fglrx (9.3) is not compatible with the new kernel - something possibly to do with KMS
The ati driver is supposedly a ‘wrapper’ that will pick the correct open driver (either radeon or radeonhd) for the detected card. So in our case it should pick radeon
When I have tried the radeon driver (still on 11.1 here), xorg.log says that DRI is not enabled for xpress chipsets (its too experimental), but that it can be enabled but gives no info how.
Apparently on ubuntu 9.10, people using the ‘ati’ wrapper driver do get DRI on xpress chips - either ubuntu has done something which enables the experimental DRI for xpress chips, or something funny is going on. Also is those same users use ‘radeon’ directly, I think they don’t get DRI. This makes me think that ‘ati’ is NOT just a wrapper around radeon & radeonhd
mesa is what is responsible for doing DRI with the free driver. Apparently mesa has been able to do DRI on xpress chips since mid 2007.
I’m just going to sit back and wait with 11.1 until this sorts itself out. My laptop is my only computer & I don’t really feel like wrecking it just yet
Apparently on ubuntu 9.10, people using the ‘ati’ wrapper driver do get DRI on xpress chips - either ubuntu has done something which enables the experimental DRI for xpress chips, or something funny is going on. Also is those same users use ‘radeon’ directly, I think they don’t get DRI. This makes me think that ‘ati’ is NOT just a wrapper around radeon & radeonhd
mesa is what is responsible for doing DRI with the free driver. Apparently mesa has been able to do DRI on xpress chips since mid 2007.
I’m just going to sit back and wait with 11.1 until this sorts itself out. My laptop is my only computer & I don’t really feel like wrecking it just yet
Interesting. I have read similar re ati/radeon drivers (but I can’t remember source of info). I didn’t know about the mesa developments concerning DRI, but I’d like to think that the open source drivers would now have this functionality. I want to install openSUSE 11.2 (currently using 11.0), but wary og the ATI driver issues with my 3 yr old laptop (X300 chipset). Don’t really want to give up 3D capability for the sake of an upgraded OS.
As a side note doing it this way doesn’t brake my sound. I have tried other similar options and they all resulted in no sound on kde4 startup. The order seems to be important in that you must boot to init 3 then start the kdm using su/sudo and then login from kdm.
I also posted some interesting finding for loaded drivers on my laptop that I found when I ran #hwinfo --gfxcard. Would love to hear thoughts on this to.
This is just a clipping of the full report. For the full report click link above.
Driver Info #0:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: radeon
Driver Info #1:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: fglrx
