Please HELP!
I have a problem with installation of ATI radeon driver.
After installation i’m running “sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx”, the configuration failed and at the end of /var/log/SaX.log I have:
(II) LoadModule: “fglrx”
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/fglrx_drv.so
(II) Module fglrx: vendor=“FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc.”
compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 8.59.2
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[atiddxSetup] X version mismatch - detected X.org 7.1.5.0, required X.org 7.4.-1.906
(II) UnloadModule: “fglrx”
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/fglrx_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module “fglrx” (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.
isemionov (and anyone else with “legacy” ATI cards):
The “legacy” Catalyst 9.3 ATI driver does not work under openSUSE 11.2; it does not support version 2.6.31 of the kernel or the current version of Xorg. ATI has said that they are not going to update the old driver. After looking at their website, they do not appear to have made any changes to the legacy driver since March of this year.
I do not know who put those packages together, made those 1-click installs, and edited the wiki, but whatever they slapped together is not supposed to work on 11.2, unless they have some sort of magic version of the Catalyst 9.3 driver recompiled for openSUSE 11.2 that nobody knows about.
Is there some entity that I can report this to, so that if the package has a bug, it can be fixed? Or if the packages are bogus, they can be removed? I’m new to the whole wiki/bug reporting thing for openSUSE.
Xpress 200 fix
This maybe a fix for the black screen issue in 11.2 for this card.
No promises, but we need testers to make sure it works.
O And Please post if it does or does not work.
As far as getting that driver working it seems we are out of luck. Ati has as one member put it dumped their 3 year old cards on the side of the road and left them to find their own way. But at least their helping make a radeonhd driver that is open source. That should give those cards a chance at having more than 3 years of support.
So far with the radeon driver I have desktop effects working good, but where heavy 3d games are concerned well lets just say I am kick-in it old school.
now I understand. Very bad for us (user’s of legacy ATI cards). I like linux especially openSUSE but there are such many problems with hardware support that makes me to thing about returning to windows
Add an xorg.conf with settings adjusted to fit your card. When I did this I got dramatic improvements in performance.
Try out the Mesa 7.7 release candidate. There are a number of changes in it that seem to reduce texture flickering and improve performance in the games I have tried. It also seems to remove a lot of weird artifacts that crop up when using OpenGL desktop effects.
Not the case for me with RADEON X550. For example when I enable desktop effects with open source driver then I get some blinks, lines on the screen…
Anyway I will not return to windows, I wrote it in in a weak moment :). I used so many efforts to be more less familiar with linux so can not come back.
About video card, think to buy NVidia, it has better support with drivers than ARI.
It is true that the binary (closed source) driver for nvidia is working better than ati’s but your are going to wait a lot more to see an open source fully working nvidia driver.
Open source ati drivers are getting better and better every day.
In what package is it supposed to be? My display is extremely slow and my card seems to have no corresponding kernel module installed!
coulomb:~> sudo /sbin/lspci -vmm -k -s 01:
Slot: 01:00.0
Class: VGA compatible controller
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Device: M64-S [Mobility Radeon X2300]
SVendor: Hewlett-Packard Company
SDevice: 6910p
No “Driver:” line! (I posted a specific thread here in the Laptop subforum, but I also try here since there seems to be more traffic…)
Thanks for answering. In the meantime I did some progress:
direct rendering was off (seen from glxinfo + an error line in Xorg.0.log)
Xorg was using the radeonhd driver
By fiddling with an xorg.conf I managed to force it to use the radeon driver, and now DRI is enabled. Problem solved for me, but not for any other owner of the same ATI card…
I seem to understand the problem could be solved by changing the files /var/lib/hardware/ids/20.xorg-x11-driver-video and /var/lib/hardware/ids/20.xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd, but maybe the devs of radeonhd could rather make it work with this card. During my investigations I read in some file a reference to radeonhd@opensuse.org . Is my problem worth posting there?
