ATI 1950X

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Hi…

Are there some in recent fglrx-drivers? I just encountered some strange things: After the installation of fglrx i tried to execute

sax2

. So far, so good but as soon as I try to save my configuration the screen becomes black and there is no startup by

startx

possible.

I executed the following commands:


su
init 3
ldconfig
aticonfig --initial
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
restart of the graphicserver
amdcccle for dualhead

I have SUSE 11.1 and KDE 4.2 installed and acutally a freshly installed system.

uname -r gives me

2.6.27.7-9-pae

and rpm -qa | grep kernel


kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.7-9.1
kernel-pae-2.6.27.7-9.1
kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.7-9.1

So… what should I do now? The command mentioned above did not work the last time…

Thank you all in advance…

Scyth

2

How did you install the driver - via ati repo or from the ati install?
Either way, after installation and a reboot, I found the driver works with an older 939 m/board.

3

I installed them via the ATI-repositories.
Somewhy I believe, that it has something todo with the 2 screens I use… this is the xorg.conf of the last installation:

Section “Files”
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”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AIGLX” “on”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
Option “IgnoreABI” “on”
Option “ZapWarning” “on”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “dbe”
Load “type1”
Load “freetype”
Load “extmod”
Load “glx”
Load “dri”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “evdev”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Option “Pass” “3”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “de”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftnek4k”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
Option “XkbVariant” “nodeadkeys”
Option “evBits” “+1”
Option “keyBits” “~1-255 ~352-511”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “mouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “6”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “Logitech Optical Mouse”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Option “CalcAlgorithm” “XServerPool”
DisplaySize 474 296
HorizSync 31-64
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “1280X1024@60HZ”
Option “PreferredMode” “1280x1024”
VendorName “–> VESA”
VertRefresh 50-60
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
Modeline “1680x1050” 119 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 -hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection

Section “Device”
BoardName “Radeon X1950 Series (RV570 7280)”
Driver “fglrx”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Option “SaXDualHead”
Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps” “true”
Option “Capabilities” “0x00000000”
Option “SaXDualMode” “Xinerama”
Option “ForceMonitors” “auto,crt1”
Option “SaXDualHSync” “30-81”
Option “SaXDualMonitorModel” “SYNCMASTER 226BW”
Option “SaXDualVSync” “56-75”
Option “VRefresh2” “56-75”
Option “Mode2” “1680x1050,1600x1024,1600x1000,1400x1050,1280x1024,1440x900,1280x960,1366x768,1280x800,1152x864,1280x768,1280x720,1024x768,1280x600,1024x600,800x600,768x576,640x480”
Option “FSAAScale” “0”
Option “FSAAEnable” “off”
Option “VideoOverlay” “on”
Option “SaXDualMonitorVendor” “SAMSUNG”
Option “HSync2” “30-81”
Option “SaXDualResolution” “1680x1050”
Option “DesktopSetup” “Horizontal,Reverse”
Option “SaXDualOrientation” “RightOf”
Screen 0
VendorName “ATI”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “on”
EndSection

4

Looks like it’s trying to find the monitor on a differeent output.
When you installed and ran the configure, I take it that the server started normally?
I seem to remember having problems with my card when 11.1 first came out.
The trick was to run the installer program as root in runlevel 3 (no gui)
I then configured it with sax.
On another system, I had problems with SLES 11 so I just installed the driver and ran sax2 with no parameters.
If this doesn’t work, add the ati repo and install the pae driver, reboot if it installs a new kernel and then set up sax2 in runlevel 3.

5

Well… no… as soon as I hit the ‘Save’ button in sax2 the screen became black.
That’s quite interesting, I think: he starts up with the configuration but it seems as if he won’t like it as soon as he should write it into the file.