So…
I did an update last night with the newer kernal and several other updates. Okay
Then I downloaded the latest ATI drivers dated as 21 July. I thought, “Yeah, maybe this’ll make the graphics stop being so danged sluggish.” Well, after I shelled and installed the drivers and rebooted, it boots into the konsole rather KDE.
Any ideas? I’m sure its probably a simple little command I don’t know (I hope).
tdy i updated my ati driver .d compiz fusion …
i used control settings- desktop effects…after that nothing happened (only i can see white screen)
i cant see the desktop…did u had these problems?? if u know the solution help me!
Had problems once like that. At the login screen select terminal or console (cant remember what it is exactly). When at a command prompt type sax2. Should load up a screen that will let you reload default screen settings. My experience so far with ATI is that it is very finicky with settings and only a few really work.
Hope it helps.
Update:
I shelled the ati drivers in the terminal as su. Didnt help anything. 11 still boots straight to the terminal.
HELP!!!
Yet another update:
Found this interesting line on the load screen
“The failsafe X.Org configuration /etc/X11/xorg.cong.install no longer exists. Either move it back (if still available) or copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install to use the native graphics driver instead of the failsafe graphics driver. Of course the latter option no longer can be called failsafe.”
Thanks ATI. You killed my graphics drivers.
Still lost…
Okay. Here I am again.
So I went to the ATI installation page and found a text line in one of the install window pictures. It says that if X server fails to load then as root type ‘aticonfig --initial -f’.
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_cat87-inst.html
It worked. X server is back up on my notebook.
Hope this helps someone out someday.
~Knuckles
Be sure after you installed the ATI driver that you configured Sax2.
The above link will walk you through the process of configuring the drivers after you have installed them. One change, though: when you are in Sax2, be sure that 3D Acceleration is checked. If 3D Acceleration is off while Compiz(-Fusion) is enabled through desktop effects, this can cause errors. The white screen problem sounds like a driver issue, so as long as the driver (preferably the 1-Click installer found in the link above) is installed properly, the system is rebooted, and Sax2 is configured correctly, the white screen should go away.
Hope that helps! 
Hi,
I’m having simliar problems, and only yesterday I discovered that at
least you can toggle compositing with Alt+Shift+F12 at runtime. That’s
very helpful if you don’t want to go searching for the compositing
option in the .kde4 configuration files on the command line, because
your X is messed up completely…
prabhakaran1989 wrote:
> tdy i updated my ati driver .d compiz fusion …
> i used control settings- desktop effects…after that nothing
> happened (only i can see white screen)
>
> i cant see the desktop…did u had these problems?? if u know the
> solution help me!
>
>
>
OK I just got it working, and it even still works after a reboot 
Following these steps should help:
prabhakaran1989 wrote:
> tdy i updated my ati driver .d compiz fusion …
> i used control settings- desktop effects…after that nothing
> happened (only i can see white screen)
>
> i cant see the desktop…did u had these problems?? if u know the
> solution help me!
>
>
>
Getting the black screen with mouse pointer.
When I ctrl-alt-F1 and go to the console I go to sax2. But, it says “access to display denied.”
I’m assuming that the ati drivers have taken dominion over the sax configuration…
Does anyone know how to use aticonfig --initial?
How do you pause the screen that shows all the different commands (its 5 or 6 pages of stuff and i’d like to actually be able to read it.)
Thx
Did you try Ctrl+Alt+F12 on your black screen with mouse pointer?
jtopliff wrote:
> Getting the black screen with mouse pointer.
>
> When I ctrl-alt-F1 and go to the console I go to sax2. But, it says
> “access to display denied.”
>
> I’m assuming that the ati drivers have taken dominion over the sax
> configuration…
>
> Does anyone know how to use aticonfig --initial?
>
> How do you pause the screen that shows all the different commands (its
> 5 or 6 pages of stuff and i’d like to actually be able to read it.)
>
> Thx
>
>
>
I’m trying to --buildpkg for openSuse 11 on IBM T60 with Ati x1300 graphics with the latest drivers from ati (ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64.run) , I get this message:
Generating package: SuSE/SUSE110-IA32
/tmp/ati.P2KHzl
Package build failed!
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.6K2nEK
Any ideas?
Try downloading it again. Sounds like a bad download or it looks like you might be trying to run the 64-bit drivers on a 32-bit platform. x86_64 is the 64-bit and its showing a package built for Suse 11.0 32.
Not trying to talk down to you, just not sure about you experience level:)
Hope it helps!
Hi,
I’ve got the same problem. It is with the ati driver 8.7,8.8 under suse 11 but I have tired the same 8.7 package on the suse 103 and it was working fine. Of course both the suse 103 and the 11 are 32bit too.
Any idea?
Regards,
kistej
I got the same error (with 8.7 and 8.9); however, I got additional information; apparently, it’s not picking up the location of X.org 7.4 (included in 11.1b1) correctly (both times, it actually said that X was missing). I’ve also noticed that you can’t peruse /var/log/xorg.0.log as part of the system logs (which makes it hard to troubleshoot X errors/configuration issues).
After you run the installer (AKA the hard way) you still have to run the command
aticonfig --initial -f
But apparently you don’t need to run the sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx command any more. I don’t know if this is due to the new drivers or changes in the new version of xorg. I simply rebooted and the ATI driver loaded fine.
BTW, some of you people trying to run the installer and getting error messages might try installing the dependencies first.
The errors are not in the dependencies, but because the installer detects (correctly) that this is not a GM distribution (in my case, I get a versioning error).
This is the error I get with 11.1 beta 1:
Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.27-rc7-12-pae; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro
If you just run the file the 3d won’t work, that is the reason we try to do it manually. But when we try to build the distribution specific package it stops and it sends the “build failed” message.
To build the distro spec package you need to add the following after install: gcc, make, kernel-source. Since the SuSE11 is out there wasn’t any update in the docs to we need to install additional things.
“But apparently you don’t need to run the sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx command any more.” - apparently we could not run this command as the driver still not installed.
How do i get ATI drivers for 11.1?