iced empire adjusted his/her AFDB on Friday 21 Aug 2009 19:36 to write:
>
> Hi everybody…
>
> I have made an update of the fglrx-driver from ati. From version 9.3 to
> 9.8. First I have deinstalled the old driver…after an reboot I
> installed the new one.
>
> So far so good…openSUSE is booting…I can log into my
> desktop…everything looks fine BUT the wallpaper who has definitely the
> right solution for my desktop (1280x1024) is bigger than normal and
> slightly moving to the right of my screen. It fit the screen…but more
> to the right.
>
> Move back to driver 9.3. and everything is normal…also the wallpaper
> fits the screen with the right resolution.
>
> What can I do?
>
>
> Something I recognize when I login to my desktop…when I move the
> cursor to the bottem or to the right or left…the whole desktop is
> moving to the opposite side.
> When the desktop has completely loaded the desktop is fix.
>
>
Sounds like the resolution system wide is slightly off and is not correcting
till the ATI config file in your user account is read.
One thing to try is to drop to drop to runlevel 3, create a new default
xorg.conf and then run the aticonfig command again.
If you logout of your desktop and at the login screen in the menu there is a
“console” option, select that and then do these commands ( I will explain
them in ]`s ) but first make a backup copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf just
call the backup something like xorg.conf-bak or similar so that you can
always get it back if something goes wrong.
login as root and enter the root password
init 3
[stop the x server and go to runlevel 3]
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
the -r tells sax2 not to read the current config and reprobe the hardware,
-m tells sax2 to use the default basic vesa module, 0=vesa tells it which
graphic card should use the vesa]
Now follow through the config but you should not change anything unless
there is something that is very wrong, then save, please do the test first
to make sure everything is OK.
after you are back at the prompt run:
aticonfig --initial
[this should create a new xorg.conf for your fglrx drivers, you will see a
little message to that effect]
now just type:
init 5
to get to runlevel 5 and your nice new desktop ( hopefully )
What has probably happened is that when you do aticonfig it read the current
xorg.conf and if it sees a default one or one that does not point to the
fglrx driver it will add the new parts to it, however if it sees that it has
already been configured it will leave the xorg.conf alone, this can
sometimes cause conflicts and give unexpected results.
Now when you are back at the desktop as your user then open a console and
type:
amdcccle and you can use the ATI catalyst GUI to configure your user
preferences for that specific login.
Hopefully that should sort you out.
Any probs just holler.
HTH
Mark
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