I am trying to work on a machine that has openSUSE 11.1 installed on it and the graphic card is a Radeon HD 3650. With the open source Radeon HD driver X fails to start, because of this I installed the ATI driver from the ATI repo and the xorg.conf file is messed up.
# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2009-02-26T14:10:14-0500.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[5]" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection
Section "Files"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.1"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "15"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "15"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
Option "FingerHigh" "17"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "MaxSpeed" "3"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.2"
Option "Name" "ALPS;Touchpad"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[3]"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.1"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "15"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "15"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
Option "FingerHigh" "17"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "MaxSpeed" "3"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.2"
Option "Name" "ALPS;Touchpad"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[5]"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
ModeLine "800x600" 40.8 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 623
ModeLine "800x600" 37.2 800 848 880 960 600 603 607 618 +hsync -vsync
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
VendorName "ATI Proprietary Driver"
ModelName "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
UseModes "Modes[0]"
DisplaySize 353 198
HorizSync 30.0 - 40.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "800x600"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Device "Device[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 3840 1200
Depth 15
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 3840 1200
Depth 16
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 3840 1200
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 3840 1200
Depth 8
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
I tried running aticonfig --initial and then run sax -r in init3 but that doesn’t work, all that did is started causing kernel panics.