Hello,
I have installed OpenSuse 11.1 on my Desktop pc Athlon 2600 with ATI Radeon 9200, 1gb ram.
After istallation ended, prompting login screen appear distortion! I cant see anything, It seems a bad tv channel!
I rebooted system in safe mode and login works well, but rebooting with default kernel option login screen appear with noise.
How I can fix this? Installing ATI Driver?
How Can I install drivers for ATI Radeon 9200 for OS 11.1?
Thanks
well the simplest way would be to add the ATI repo to yast and install the driver.or you can download the latest ati driver from Drivers & Software and generate the os specific package and intalla it from a terminal.
There is a howto in the wiki for installing the ATI proprietary driver. Read that carefully all the way through before installing it. If you have not done that, then the video driver being used now is either vesa or the open source ATI driver (named “radeon”) which may not be able to handle your device. You will not see a problem with this during installation because the install uses “framebuffer” graphics with a lower resolution than what is native to your laptop.
Try adding this to the Boot Options, using the default menu choice:
edd=off
If that doesn’t work, and the problem does not occur when using failsafe, then look at the file /boot/grub/menu.lst (must be root) and find the “kernel” line within the Failsafe boot stanza. The line will have a number of kernel arguments (e.g., “acpi=off”). Write those down and try them one at a time in the Boot Options with the default menu choice, until you find which one solves the problem. Then use a text editor to add that argument to the kernel line in the default stanza in menu.lst, which will make it permanent (do this with the edd=off above if that solves the problem).
Under yast “Card and Monitor Proprieties”
Card: ATI RV280 5964 ( io ho una 9200)
Monitor: SAM SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER (io ho Syncmaster 152s)
linux-8777:/home/pgrazian # hwinfo --monitor
27: None 00.0: 10000 Monitor
[Created at monitor.95]
Unique ID: rdCR.Ao4HwOkYA7E
Hardware Class: monitor
Model: “SAMSUNG SyncMaster”
Vendor: SAM “SAMSUNG”
Device: eisa 0x0088 “SyncMaster”
Serial ID: “HJDW602601”
Resolution: 720x400@70Hz
Resolution: 640x480@60Hz
Resolution: 640x480@67Hz
Resolution: 640x480@75Hz
Resolution: 800x600@56Hz
Resolution: 800x600@60Hz
Resolution: 800x600@75Hz
Resolution: 832x624@75Hz
Resolution: 1024x768@60Hz
Resolution: 1024x768@70Hz
Resolution: 1024x768@75Hz
Resolution: 640x480@60Hz
Resolution: 800x600@60Hz
Resolution: 1024x768@60Hz
Resolution: 640x480@75Hz
Size: 304x228 mm
Detailed Timings #0:
Resolution: 1024x768
Horizontal: 1024 1048 1184 1344 (+24 +160 +320) -hsync
Vertical: 768 771 777 806 (+3 +9 +38) -vsync
Frequencies: 65.00 MHz, 48.36 kHz, 60.00 Hz
Driver Info #0:
Max. Resolution: 1024x768
Vert. Sync Range: 56-75 Hz
Hor. Sync Range: 30-61 kHz
Bandwidth: 65 MHz
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
28: None 00.1: 10000 Monitor
[Created at monitor.95]
Unique ID: jyhG.Ao4HwOkYA7E
Hardware Class: monitor
Model: “SAMSUNG SyncMaster”
Vendor: SAM “SAMSUNG”
Device: eisa 0x0088 “SyncMaster”
Serial ID: “HJDW602601”
Resolution: 720x400@70Hz
Resolution: 640x480@60Hz
Resolution: 640x480@67Hz
Resolution: 640x480@75Hz
Resolution: 800x600@56Hz
Resolution: 800x600@60Hz
Resolution: 800x600@75Hz
Resolution: 832x624@75Hz
Resolution: 1024x768@60Hz
Resolution: 1024x768@70Hz
Resolution: 1024x768@75Hz
Resolution: 640x480@60Hz
Resolution: 800x600@60Hz
Resolution: 1024x768@60Hz
Resolution: 640x480@75Hz
Size: 304x228 mm
Detailed Timings #0:
Resolution: 1024x768
Horizontal: 1024 1048 1184 1344 (+24 +160 +320) -hsync
Vertical: 768 771 777 806 (+3 +9 +38) -vsync
Frequencies: 65.00 MHz, 48.36 kHz, 60.00 Hz
Driver Info #0:
Max. Resolution: 1024x768
Vert. Sync Range: 56-75 Hz
Hor. Sync Range: 30-61 kHz
Bandwidth: 65 MHz
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Is problem for frequency?
i dont know about the frequencies but the resolutions are not that great.i dont think you installed the ati driver properly.a 9200 card can support up to 2048 X 1536 resolution which is now whare near the resolutions in your file.
so as mingus725 said go through the installation wiki and see it works.also check with the options from the failsafe kernel arguments.mostly that should work.
I have not installed yet Ati drivers for 9200.
I have another problem with USB wireless adaptor and I can’t find dependencies for install Ati drivers!
SGRUNT!
lets take one problem at a time.these are the minimum requirements for ATI drivers:
POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D apps
glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
Linux kernel 2.4 or higher
XOrg 6.7,6.8,6.9,7.0 or 7.1; XFree86 version 4.3
i think they will be available by default in the installation.post where exaclty did the installation fail.
and what exactly is your problem with you adapter??and if post it in the related thread you might get more responses.
I am not hi frequency electrician :\
Anyway, the Samsung datasheet says bandwidth=80 MHz, your data say bandwidth=65 MHz.
Maybe you should check that with Sax2!
I am not a hi frequency electrician :\
Anyway, the Samsung datasheet says bandwidth=80 MHz, your data say bandwidth=65 MHz.
Maybe you should check that with Sax2!
I don’t know about the Samsung datasheet by I have a SyncMaster which AFAIK are lcd’s with 60Hz native and 75Hz avail but that compromises performance. Messing with higher resolutions is a good way to fry a display.
As already commented, the base repository should have the dependencies for the ATI driver - you can set the DVD up as a repository in YaST for additional software to be installed from. You can even use the iso file you burned; it is one of the YaST Software Repository options. Installing the ATI driver is where you need to focus your efforts.
You could try one of the Live CDs (Knoppix, (K)ubuntu) and if they manage to run X in a decent fashion, just copy the xorg.conf that they created over the one created by your opensuse installation.
That was the easiest way many years back when I tried to put SuSE 9.0 on a new Centrino-Notebook with Intel Graphics. Not only was SuSE 9.0 unable to automatically create a working X configuration, it was even impossible to create one manually with SaX. Knoppix created one for me. 
Btw. opensuse 11.1 did correctly configure xorg.conf on my HP notebook which has an ATI XPress 1150 chipset&graphics, so I’m a little suprised to hear it fails on ATI 9200.
@mingus725
of course you are right, concerning 60 Hz for LCDs (most of actually do not complain at 75 Hz)
this is ok in g3mon’s data here
Resolution: 1024x768
Horizontal: 1024 1048 1184 1344 (+24 +160 +320) -hsync
Vertical: 768 771 777 806 (+3 +9 +38) -vsync
Frequencies: 65.00 MHz, 48.36 kHz, 60.00 Hz
However, these three frequencies concern different functions. 60 Hz is the frequency for writing line 1 to 768, thus “painting” one screen. However, there is another frequency for writing column 1 to 1024, which works at a much higher frequency, and another, still higher, which includes both movements together. (Well, again, I am not a hi frequency technician ;), so this explanation is quite low level).
As you said, it is very important, not to mess around with these data. So, I guess, when using the sax2 tools, g3mon could be able to carefully correct the wrong entry without entering mistaken harmful data.