ATI 3200 problem's, BIG PROBLEM'S

Hi guys, i have a very big nice problem with my ATI RadeonHD 3200 GPU. I have tried almost every how-to that i see on the internet to install the property ATI #@#$ Driver.

OS: openSUSE 11.2 RC2 (64bit)

First, i try to install by the repo, BUT, the repo www2.ati.com/suse/112 do not sync (refresh) with zypper. SO i try to add this repo on www2.ati.com/suse and works fine. AFTER that, I have listed the packages on the repo, zypper se -r ATI, and for fun I see that I dont have support for -desktop kernel, only default, smp, bigsmp, things like that.

S | Name | Summary | Type
–±----------------------±-------------------------------------------±-------
| ati-fglrx-kmp-bigsmp | ATI “fglrx” driver kernel module | package
| ati-fglrx-kmp-debug | ATI “fglrx” driver kernel module | package
| ati-fglrx-kmp-default | ATI “fglrx” driver kernel module | package
| ati-fglrx-kmp-smp | ATI “fglrx” driver kernel module | package
| x11-video-fglrx | X Window display driver for the ATI grap-> | package

OK. What i do? I go do ATI wiki page on openSUSE, and, try to do this wich Hard way. I follow all steps, first, installing all packagers for 64bit users, ALL, 64 and 32bits. After that, i run the driver that I have download from ATI and, for fun, this not work. I can’t create a rpm package for openSUSE 11.2 amd64.

SO, after that, what i do? I follow some pages on the google for this problem, and some threads where, without success. The problem is when i configure the Xorg with fglrx driver, the performance of radeonhd (free) is better than fglrx.

Some threads talk that i need to create a link of the real lib on lib64 dir for lib dir, and i have created this, but without success. Others threads talk that i need to ONLY make aticonfig --initial, without run sax2, and i have make this, but without success…

AFTER all theses pages, i think that the Best way is to install kernel-default and use the ATI repo. BUT after install the kernel, install the drivers from repo (ignoring some erros), i don’t have success because the Xorg dont find the fglrx module, and the kernel do not up the fglrx module… rotfl!

Anyone can help-me?

tkz!

What does /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log say?

If it ends with “… Failed to compile kernel module …”, you don’t have fglrx at all.

If you have an fglrx module, you can

grep fglrx /var/log/Xorg.0.log

, see how far things got.

Check out Setup an ATI card with the new FGLRX drivers for Compiz-Fusion - Compiz Community Forums for a thorough discussion of ATI’s fglrx driver.

I’m not sure if fglrx works with 11.2 RC2. I have had good results with 11.1 and all the updated kernels (now 2.6.27.37-0.1-default) on my AMD64 box. I just run the .run file, and accept all the defaults, and ignore the complaint about " …can’t install the DRI file …".

I run aticonfig, but no sax2, per ATI recommendations.

I tried with the 2.6.31.5-0.1-default kernel, and it failed to build the driver.

Hope this helps.