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Thank you very much for this tut. I am newbie and I've already followed some tuts on this, but none of them works for me except yours. Thanks

Hi Nick,

Followed your ATI installation instructions and everything went well but I have a question. When I go into Yast and select System Update, it now shows the ATI driver as a new package to install. Isn't it already installed? Would letting System Update run cause a problem or create duplicate files?

Thanks.

Hi Nick and all you additional contributors,

This page helped me more than the others. Finally have XGL working with 10.2 gnome and the ATI Radeon X1950XT PCIe. How sweet it is! I first tried the default method which didn't seem to work. However, following the instructions here I fixed things, and then tried installing the ATI 8.33.6 driver which worked at first. I had no 3D acceleration, but I had the effects. After then adding the X11:XGL download location and updating the XGL no longer worked. Next I reinstalled x11-video-flgrxG01 and ati-fglrxG01-kmp-default. Now I have 3D acceleration and XGL enabled successfully it seems. May still need to tweak things, but this is nice.

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I am trying to install the ATI drivers on openSuSE 10.2 for days now, without any success. My latest problem is that the screen goes blank when starting the X,. in both cases gdm, or kdm.

I must note first that I am using a D processor x64 bit, with two ATI cards -- RadeOn x850, x1600. The card I am trying to access now is the RadeOn x850.

My xorg.conf seems to be written properly, and the xorg.log seems to produce the proper values -- without any error -- although I can not tell whether it finished the process, if the card didn't halt at the last part. Thus, I do not understand why I am getting this blank screen.

If anybody see this please leave me a message here, or at my page.

Thanks in advance, Nighthawk

--Nighthawk Posted on 21:56, 1 May 2007

Nick, thanks for all the help getting it set up. I am really close, which is amazing considering what's running on my hardware. I have the ATI Radeon XPRESS 200m (PCIE 5955) on a Pavilion zv6000 laptop. Check out http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl#Problematic_Hardware. Anyways, I used openSUSE 10.3a4 and added the 10.2 ATI repositories to YaST to install fglrx. Then I followed these steps:

1. init 3
2. fglrx-kernel-module.sh
3. ldconfig
4. aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
5. sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

log onto KDE, then add YaST repositories for Beryl. Compiz is installed by default on 10.3a4. I also edited xorg.conf, but there were a few things that were different for this card -

composite manager was a large problem - got it working with [relevant parts only]:

 Section "Module"
   Load         "dbe"
   Load         "type1"
   Load         "freetype"
   Load         "extmod"
   Load         "dri"
   Load         "vbe"
 EndSection

 Section "Extensions"
   Option       "Composite" "0"
 EndSection

 Section "DRI"
   Group      0
   Mode       0666
 EndSection

under "Module" you'll notice Load "vbe" - a Ubuntu forum said to use it, I don't know why. It seemed to have no effect, but I left it in because eventually things started falling together. Anyways, Compiz decided it wanted to start automatically - KControl > KDE Components > Session Manager at the bottom has an option for preferred window manager. My options are kwin and compiz. It doesn't matter which one is selected, Compiz will work and Beryl won't. I can even use Beryl Manager to start Compiz, but Beryl gives me no window decorators. When I run beryl-manager --no-force-window-manager from terminal the output is:

 X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
   Major opcode:  152
   Minor opcode:  8
   Resource id:  0x52
 Window Manager "compiz"
 Found not compatible window manager. Waiting...
 Reloading...
 
 (emerald:4216): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_unref: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed
 Sending reload event...
 No window manager. Waiting...
 
 Beryl system compatiblity check                            
 
 
 Detected xserver                                : XGL
 
 Checking Display :0.0 ...
 
 Checking for XComposite extension               : passed (v0.3)
 Checking for XDamage extension                  : passed
 Checking for RandR extension                    : passed
 Checking for XSync extension                    : passed
 
 New Window Manager
 Window Manager "beryl"
 X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
   Major opcode:  152
   Minor opcode:  8
   Resource id:  0x52
 beryl-xgl: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
 No window manager. Waiting...
 
 ** (beryl-manager:4123): WARNING **: Beryl caught deadly signal 6
 Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Gilouche": Failed to find a valid file for theme Gilouche

--Amplifiedcomputers

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