On a fresh install of 11.1 on my Acer 5100 my Radeon Xpress 1100 video card is mis-detected as a 200M.
I’ve tried various drivers from an init 3 boot as follows:
This dumps back to command prompt
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
This loads sax2 and detects my video card as Radeon Xpress 200M with correct screen resolution but Blank screen in Power Manager won’t work
sax2 -r -m 0=radeon
This dumps back to command prompt
sax2 -r -m 0=radeonhd
This loads sax2 and detects video card as Radeon Xpress 200m but won’t allow for setting my screen resolution higher than 1024, even using generic LCD
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
Can anyone help with getting sax2 to detect my video card correctly?
Ski K2 adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 11 May 2009 21:16 to write:
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> On a fresh install of 11.1 on my Acer 5100 my Radeon Xpress 1100 video
> card is mis-detected as a 200M.
>
> I’ve tried various drivers from an init 3 boot as follows:
>
> This dumps back to command prompt
> sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
>
Have you installed the fglrx drivers either through one-click. adding the
ATI repo or d/loading the binary from |TI and compiling yourself?
If not that is why the machine is dumping you back to the prompt,
Trying to install the ATI drivers was a HUGE mess so I probably trashed anything ATI and the fglrx packages too. Probably because I’m 64bit 11.1. I think there are some 32 bit packages needed but could never figure out exactly what I needed to get them working.
Ski K2 adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 11 May 2009 22:56 to write:
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> Now I knnow why I need a tinfoil beanie
>
> Trying to install the ATI drivers was a HUGE mess so I probably trashed
> anything ATI and the fglrx packages too. Probably because I’m 64bit
> 11.1. I think there are some 32 bit packages needed but could never
> figure out exactly what I needed to get them working.
>
> How do I just get the fglrx stuff back?
>
> thanx
>
>
I`m on 64bit this machine and a 32bit on another machine here both with ATI
radeon, 4850+ 4350 I think it has been a long time since I built that
machine it just sits in the corner purring away doing "stuff"™)
Was that the one-click?
If you mean the ones from ATI themselves then you should only need the
kernel headers, make, gcc through YaST anything else should come down with
those packages.
Unless you want to grab the kernel source as well and prep that, but that is
a bit overkill
Ski K2 adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 11 May 2009 23:36 to write:
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> 1-click.
>
> ‘ATI - openSUSE’ (http://tinyurl.com/oghgda)
>
> I’m re-reading the ATI support page now and see allot of 32 and 64 bit
> package requirements that I didn’t have.
>
> Going to give it another go adding the repo in Yast and then
> installing:
>
> x11-video-fglrxG01
> ati-fglrxG01-kmp-<kernel-flavor>
>
> After that I’m not sure whether to use sax2 or the ati initial
> thingy???
>
> I’ve read numerous posts warning not to use sax2 but rather the ati
> config utility.
>
> Any advice on that would be much appreciated.
>
> thanx
>
>
I have never done one-click or the ATI repo so cannot comment on those I
always use the :
aticonfig --initial
Only had a prob with that once and that was due to the way my monitors were
laid out and was a very easy thing to fix once in the GUI with amdcccle (
Linux catalyst control panel thing )
The deps seem not to have been installed using the 1-click the firt go round
This works:
Install 32 and 64 bit deps
32-bit users
Before following this tutorial please make sure you have the following packages installed:
kernel-source
qt3
compat
compat-libstdc++
libstdc++
libstdc+±devel
libgcc
xorg-x11-libs
xorg-x11-devel
Mesa
Mesa-devel
fontconfig
fontconfig-devel
expat
freetype
freetype2
freetype2-devel
zlib
zlib-devel
gcc
patch
Note: libdrm must be version 2.3 --StephaneZ 18:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Through YaST check the version number of your Kernel-default and Kernel-source packets. Both must be the same. If they aren’t, get latest kernel upgrade with YaST.
[edit]
64-bit users
Before following this tutorial please make sure you have the following 32-bit packages, as well as the 64-bit counterparts of the packages listed above in the 32-bit users section installed:
kernel-source
compat-32bit
qt3-32bit
libstdc++
libgcc
xorg-x11-libs-32bit
xorg-x11-devel-32bit
Mesa-32bit
Mesa-devel-32bit
fontconfig-32bit
expat-32bit
freetype2-32bit
zlib-32bit
gcc
Terminal or boot to init 3
su
password
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make cloneconfig
make modules_prepare
make clean
Add ATI repo using Yast
Using Yast install:
x11-video-fglrxG01
ati-fglrxG01-kmp-<kernel-flavor>
Terminal or boot to init 3
ldconfig
aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
Hoooooraaaay
Only issue now is lappy still won’t suspend or hibernate.
I do have a much mor usable/enjoyable Gnome now with the ATI drivers
