Restarted X
Now after starting X I get a white screen. If I reboot the pc, I get a black or white screen. If the black screen appears, the system hangs.
This is a part of what the Xorg log says during a black screen:
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(WW) Waring, couldn't open module fglrx
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0)
Quite interesting isn’t it? I just installed the thingie…
Second:
Downloaded the “ATI Catalyst™ 9.2 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver” from ati.amd.com.
Installed the driver according instructions in PDF.
Runned “rm /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so && ln -s /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so” afterwards
Now the installer tells me that all is fine, but looking carefully into the install-log it appears that compilation errors occured.
I’m wondering what I can do more to get the driver running… :’( Does someone has a brilliant idea?
I have the same model graphics card and I was UNABLE to use ATI Catalyst 9.2 version. I also tried 9.1 version but NO success. However, 8.12 version WORKS for me when I use the second step you described. The only difference was the part where you run
“rm /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so”,
I renamed the file as fglrx_dri.so.original by running
I have kernel version 2.6.27.7-9.1-default. I tried to update the kernel to 2.6.27.19-3.2-default and uninstalled the 8.12 ati driver and installed 9.2 but no luck there either. I also tried 9.1, 8.12, and 8.11 but all of these ended up with either black screen on boot up or fglrxinfo shows errors.
So try kernel version 2.6.27.7-9.1-default with ATI Catalyst 8.12 version.
Thanks a lot for your reply. I understand you used the 8.12 driver directly from the ATI site? I guess you’d to install the kernel-source / kernel-headers / gcc and make packages in advance of performing step 2?
Yes, I downloaded the drivers from the ATI website under previous version and then also used yast2 to get the packages needed before I installed the 8.12 driver. Note: all the required packages are available in the installer instructions (a pdf file) from the ati website as well. It also mentions that for 64bit version 32bit packages must be installed as well.
I am running 64bit openSuSE right now but I’m thinking of switching to 32bit because of other problems not related to ATI drivers.
Ok, for the ones who want to know… Got the dual head setup working too…, including 3D acceleration:
Open a terminal and login as root:
>> su
Specify the initial dual head configuration (my secondary screen is left of the primary, could also be right):
>> aticonfig --initial=dual-head --screen-layout=left
Tell the driver that your orientation is horizontal:
>> aticonfig --dtop=horizontal --overlay-on=1
>> aticonfig --desktop-setup=horizontal
Tell the driver to set Xinerama on:
>> aticonfig --xinerama=on
Now restart x by pressing two times Ctrl-alt-backspace and login again.
Run
>> glxgears
to check if the acceleration still works.
Glad to see that it worked for you. It seems that certain kernel version goes with certain ATI Catalyst driver. I just switched to 32bit openSuSE with kernel 2.6.27.19-*-pae and 8.11 version works while all the rest were useless.
Hmmm. Strange. Linux is a powerfull OS, but sometimes it’s really a fight to get things working.
The thing is that I wanted to do visualization things using VTK and ITK. These libraries use such an amount of memory that 32-bit almost standard fails after loading two or three volumes. That’s why I had to switch to 64-bit, but without OpenGL it wasn’t that better ;-). Now all works fast and fine!
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