From lines 933 onwards in file Xorg.0.log.old it looks as though the radeon
driver is loaded.
Did you mix-up the files?
Well…it seems that you were right, i replaced the files…sorry:shame:
Well, the mayhem is already here!
I guess all the advices that keellambert gave in his last post are no longer valid now?
In the meantime, at least i could try the the last oldcpu´s advice.
I am sorry again, i really did not see…
I tried again with “radeon” and then came back to “vesa”, here are new versions of the files.
Xorg.0.log.old: SUSE Paste
Xorg.0.log: SUSE Paste
Here is the output of less /var/log/messages | grep ‘Nov 27’ | grep kernel
SUSE Paste
And i know what you will think first…if i have changed the URLs and files now i will eat my hat!
And i tried what oldcpu did when dealing with his wife´s ati 9600 pro- but it didn´t work.
The way the things are going so far, i should have better started looking for a new hat by now.
Don’t forget to try this fix :
Workaround for R3xx/R4xx users (Radeon 9600/X300/Xxxx)
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- disabled KMS by adding 'nomodeset' to boot options.
- add the following section to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf
Section "Module"
Disable "dri"
Disable "dri2"
EndSection
I just have tried it, didn´t help.
Please post the output of these two commands (or indicate where you did already post this info):
lspci -nnk | grep -a2 -i vga
hwinfo --monitor --gfxcard
We can write a minimal xorg.conf for you, which might work or not. Don’t worry if the output of hwinfo --monitor doesn’t give the real resolution of your monitor (I have a Syncmaster too and it shows wrong results). Which screen resolution would you like to use?
Boot in runlevel 3 by appending " 3" (without the quotes) in the Options line of the boot menu. Use startx as root, since it won’t run as user. Login as root is OK for what you’re doing now. Watch for error messages when you run startx and report here.
Not sure if you have it, but if you had fglrx previously installed, you should uninstall it. Also make sure it wasn’t added to your initial RAM disk (!)
lsinitrd /boot/initrd | grep fglrx
More points from me,
The file posted “Here is the output of less /var/log/messages | grep ‘Nov 27’ | grep kernel
SUSE Paste”, isn’t.
Please try again, when you boot to the cmd line prompt, give cmd
less /var/log/messages | grep ‘Nov 28’ | grep kernel
as we have moved on a day.
Check that you do not have a file,
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-fglrx.conf
If you do delete it.
Check that there is not a statement in file /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf,
blacklist radeon
If there is put a # mark in column one of that line.
As root give the cmd,
lsmod |grep radeon
If there is no output, give the cmd,
insmod radeon
----Stop here if there are any failure messages from this cmd----
Go into yast2 --Software --Software Management and delete the package,
xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd
Gerate new files as given in message #19 above, section 2.
Power off with the cmd,
halt -hip
If the gui is not reached continue to 9.
Go to file 50-device.conf and replace the line
Driver “radeon”
with
Driver “vesa”
On the next reboot you should be back to where you started.
You should also re-install the package xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd
to stay with the standard install.
Please post the output of lspci -nnk | grep -a2 -i vga
dhcppc0:/home/sladjo # lspci -nnk | grep -a2 -i vga
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:4720]
Kernel driver in use: snd_via82xx
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600] [1002:4152]
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Sapphire Radeon 9600XT [174b:7c29]
01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600] (Secondary) [1002:4172]
…hwinfo --monitor --gfxcard
SUSE Paste
It was a little too big, so i pasted it there
Which screen resolution would you like to use?
1024x768…sir, please, sir :shame:
That´s it for now. I am going to try runlevel 3 and come back.
Boot in runlevel 3 by appending " 3" (without the quotes) in the Options line of the boot menu. Use startx as root, since it won’t run as user. Login as root is OK for what you’re doing now. Watch for error messages when you run startx and report here.
Eccomi, after typing 3 (without “nomodeset”), loged in, “su”-then “startx”. Then a black screen appeared, just for a part of a second with some text on it, then all dissapeared and i hop!, i was in the splash screen of 12.1. Obviously, x has started, everything runs a bit faster now, well wait, not a bit but faster=sensibly and tangibly better than before, there was even the splash screen of KDE, which was not the case before when i booted with “vesa”, and also let me add that all the settings of firefox, Kontrollleiste, Screen that i had on 12.1 previously are gone. But i suppose that is normal. Looked in Qonqueror: 2D-vesa; 3D: swrast (no 3D-acceleration) 7.11- Just like before, nothing changed.
(I even typed “starx” without “su”, it gave me a bug report, but that is probably irrelevant, i guess. Or it is not?)
[Not sure if you have it, but if you had fglrx previously installed, you should uninstall it. Also make sure it wasn’t added to your initial RAM disk (!)
Code:
lsinitrd /boot/initrd | grep fglrx
No, the “fglrx” driver was never installed on the system. The “sinitrd /boot/initrd | grep fglrx” command gave no output.
( If i may repeat, 12.1 gave me the message at the end of the installation, when trying to automatically configure the system, that i couldn´t find any driver for my graphic card.)
/QUOTE]
- ess /var/log/messages | grep ‘Nov 28’ | grep kernel
- Check that you do not have a file,
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-fglrx.conf
No, i do not have such a file.
- Check that there is not a statement in file /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf,
blacklist radeon
No, “radeon” is not blacklisted, but there is “blacklist radeonfb”. Should i put a # in front of it?
- As root give the cmd,
lsmod |grep radeon
dhcppc0:~ # lsmod |grep radeon
radeon 982425 1
ttm 69320 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 36953 1 radeon
drm 208191 3 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 radeon
i2c_core 34010 6 i2c_viapro,lm63,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,igo_bit
hwmon 12936 3 lm63,radeon,thermal_sys
You know what? I am going to reboot and go back to regular “vesa” sreen, and try the same command there, and then return here to compare the outputs.
What kind of device is that?
Is the monitor a CRT?
Keep booting in runlevel 3 until you have solved the problem.
Copy the code below in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
run startx and tell us what you see.
# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "SAMSUNG SyncMaster"
VendorName "SAMSUNG"
HorizSync 30-85
VertRefresh 50-160
DisplaySize 312 234
Option "DPMS"
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics card section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Device"
Identifier "radeon"
BoardName "Radeon 9600XT"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# BusID "PCI:1:0:1"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "radeon"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubsection
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# ServerLayout section.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen0"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0666
EndSection
It might be helpful to add modelines or other options in this file.
As root give the cmd,
lsmod |grep radeon
Here is the output from regular “vesa” screen:
dhcppc0:/home/sladjo # lsmod |grep radeon
radeon 982425 0
ttm 69320 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 36953 1 radeon
drm 208191 3 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 radeon
i2c_core 34010 5 i2c_viapro,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
hwmon 12936 2 radeon,thermal_sys
Well, in comparison with the output that came after “startx”, there are few differences.
startx | “vesa”
radeon 982425** 1 ** | radeon 982425 ** 0 **
i2c_core 34010** 6 i2c_viapro,lm63,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,igo_bit | i2c_core 34010 ** 5 2c_viapro,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c**_algo**_bit
hwmon 12936** 3 **lm63,radeon,thermal_sys | hwmon 12936 ** 2 **radeon,thermal_sys
What kind of device is that?
Is the monitor a CRT?
Yes. An old family´s PC with an old monitor. also from the family. 
Keep booting in runlevel 3 until you have solved the problem.
Copy the code below in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
run startx and tell us what you see.
Now i don´t understand. When am i supposed to do that, after i have finished what keellambert advised me to do, or right now (before the steps form no.5 to 9)?
I would need some help here: how to rename and create those files (step 6: 50-device.conf-9600…etc), it seems i need root permission to do so. Now i don´t know how to do it with mc, and i have forgotten how it goes with chmod… or it was chown. A few days ago it went nicely, both with cm and chmod, and now…
Just …,
From your CRT specification, I agree with you for flicker free preformance,
– the best resolution is 1024 x 768 / 85 Hz.
12.1 is recognising your graphics card, vesa is recognising your monitor.
Apologies I messed up in my response #19,
— the first: make new file 50-device.conf is ok
— the second: make new file 50-device.conf should read 50-monitor.conf
— the third: make new file 50-device.conf should read 50-screen.conf
As you are using a CRT the proposed modifications to the file 50-monitor.conf
— would make it look as follows,
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "VGA-0"
Option "VendorName" "SAM"
Option "ModelName" "SyncMaster_765_MB"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option HorizSync 30-85
Option VertRefresh 50-100
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
Option "TargetRefresh" "85"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 94.50 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync (68.7 kHz)
Modeline "640x480"x0.0 31.50 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz)
Modeline "640x480"x0.0 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz)
Modeline "720x400"x0.0 28.32 720 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz)
Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz)
Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz)
Modeline "800x600"x0.0 49.50 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz)
Modeline "640x480"x0.0 36.00 640 696 752 832 480 481 484 509 -hsync -vsync (43.3 kHz)
Modeline "800x600"x0.0 56.25 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync (53.7 kHz)
Modeline "1600x1200"x0.0 175.50 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync (81.2 kHz)
Modeline "1792x1344"x0.0 204.75 1792 1920 2120 2448 1344 1345 1348 1394 -hsync +vsync (83.6 kHz)
EndSection
The modes information has been extracted from the file SUSE Paste you provided.
This info can be confirmed with cmd,
cvt
to use cvt read the info from cmd,
info cvt
If I’ve goofed again, hopefully, oldpcu or please_try_again will jump in.
Open a termin, log in as root, you should then be able to use MC as you did before.
Hi All,
I have sony vaio with 512MB nVidia GForce 400 GCard, and i installed 12.1 Using the Downloaded ISO from opesnsuse.org, after the installation went well, Genome 3.2 showed message that Genome 3.2 failed to launch, starting Fallback version…
Can anyone help me on this why Genome 3.2 failed and went for Fallback ?
I have been using the OpenSuse since 11.2, but all my PC experience was without any grafix card, so i really don’t have much insight on how to get the NVidia GForce 400 driver and make it installed on 12.1 or even 11.4. any help appreciated.
Thanks
Forget about that! Put everything in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If this file exists, it will be read first.
too complicated.
Please, start a new thread or/and have a look at the many nvidia threads. Your problem in not related with the topic of this thread - which is about ATI radeon.
sorry ATI guys …keep it on…
Put everything in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If this file exists, it will be read first.
@please_try_again
And, off course… it does not exist! It would have been too easy…
What now?