Recently I installed SuSE 10.0 on my machine. I have an ATI Radeon 9600 video card, and I've been trying to get the 3D acceleration working properly. I know there have been a lot of questions about how to get ATI's cards working in Linux, and I've read several posts on various forums, some SuSE-specific and some not, but I still don't think my 3D is enabled.

I downloaded ATI's driver from their web site and followed a guide I found for installing it in SuSE 10.0, running the following commands:

./ati-driver-installer-8.18.8-i386.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE100-IA32
rpm -Uhv fglrx_6_8_0_SUSE100-8.18.8-1.i386.rpm

Then I read the instructions in /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/README.SuSE, which say to switch to runlevel 3 and then run this command to configure the fglrx driver:

sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/sax2-profile

However, when I ran that, nothing happened except that my screen went blank and sat with a blinking cursor in the upper-left corner, and my system hung there. It looks like the driver installed though - I went to yast from X11 and go to the Card and Monitor properties, and it looked like I had more options pertatining to my video card. However, 3D applications still run fairly sluggishly. I even tried running fglrxconfig, but that didn't help. I used quake3 as a test, and it says my system is using the mesa3d GL renderer - so I think there is something that isn't set up correctly. Is there anything extra special I need to do? I know ATI drivers aren't as easy to set up as Nvidia's drivers, but I know it can be done, and at the moment I can't spring for an Nvidia card (although I might end up doing that in the future).

There are not many guides you really need to be following. ATI has one called the "New Install Instructions" , and I have another, I have that card, and I have OpenSuSE 10.0. I wrote the guide on my website for everything but specifically for SuSE. So try following that guide, you are probably missing a few requirements, and if you don't know the commands to test for stuff, like glibc 2.2 or 2.3 and if you don't have kernel source, etc, etc. If you follow my guide, you will have video, with 3d hardware acceleration, in less than 15 minutes.

Hi Redshirt. I did everything that was written in your website about the ATI driver installation. I think it’s working now, but I guess I did something wrong and now my games don’t play at all (almost at all, the only one that is still working is CZERO, but all text messages disappear at all), and Q3 for example runs and I can’t see anything on the screen, but I hear the mouse passing over a link ( it makes a sound). I also can’t log out of the system because the screen becomes black, even trying to switch to console doesn’t work..... this is my glxinfo:
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float,
GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_multisample
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9200SE DDR Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.1017 (X4.3.0-8.19.10)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
GL_S3_s3tc, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_blend, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_ATI_element_array,
GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader, GL_ATI_map_object_buffer,
GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once,
GL_ATI_vertex_array_object, GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object,
GL_ATI_vertex_streams, GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATIX_texture_env_route, GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size,
GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp,
GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_EXT_vertex_shader, GL_HP_occlusion_test, GL_NV_blend_square,
GL_NV_occlusion_query, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_SGI_color_matrix,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x2b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2e 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2f 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x32 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None

Please if you find out something wrong or if you have any ideas about it, let me know as soon as you can. Thanks for your help

Ruslombia

Instead of glxinfo, lets first make sure it is working right.

Type "glxgears" into a terminal, what do you get as output for FPS? Assuming it is working, your FPS should be a few thousand.

Then let's see the "dmesg" and see if maybe something isn't loading for a reason.

Hi again:
Well!! I got this for glxgears, I don't think it's really hight
glxgears
5045 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1009.000 FPS
5507 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1101.400 FPS
5501 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1100.200 FPS
5400 frames in 6.0 seconds = 900.000 FPS
5000 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1000.000 FPS
5524 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1104.800 FPS
5524 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1104.800 FPS
5520 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1104.000 FPS
5526 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1105.200 FPS
5633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1126.600 FPS

and this for dmesg
dmesg
Linux version 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 (bhcompile@decompose.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050525 (Red Hat 4.0.0-9)) #1 Thu Jun 2 22:55:56 EDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 AWARD ) @ 0x000f7020
ACPI: RSDT (v001 AWARD AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 AWARD AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: MADT (v001 AWARD AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff6a40
ACPI: DSDT (v001 AWARD AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0457000 soft=c0456000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 1693.395 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 513836k/524224k available (2518k kernel code, 9776k reserved, 690k data, 180k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3358.72 BogoMIPS (lpj=1679360)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e28)
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1080k freed
softlockup thread 0 started up.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbbd0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Uncovering SIS962 that hid as a SIS503 (compatible=1)
Enabling SiS 96x SMBus.
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:02.5
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1132173026.268:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 42BD35A990375F72
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (45 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected SiS 651 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 76 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.5[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
SIS5513: chipset revision 0
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-4550A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: _NEC CD-ROM CD-3002A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 7, 917504 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI wakeup devices:
PWRB FUTS PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 AMR0 UAR1 PS2M PS2K
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
security: 3 users, 6 roles, 764 types, 87 bools
security: 55 classes, 180131 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.
SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda3, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe800, 00:0d:87:ca:34:21, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.7[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49689 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
i2c-sis96x version 1.0.0
sis96x_smbus 0000:00:02.1: SiS96x SMBus base address: 0x10c0
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.3[D] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: irq 3, io mem 0xe8102000
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:03.3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: irq 11, io mem 0xe8100000
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 9
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.1[B] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: irq 9, io mem 0xe8101000
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03e6820(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.19.10 [Nov 9 2005] on minor 0
[fglrx] ACPI power management is initialized.
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [FUTS]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
audit(1132162257.704:2): avc: denied { write } for pid=1762 comm="fsck" name=rhgb-console dev=ramfs ino=5959 scontext=system_u:system_r:fsadm_t tcontext=system_ubject_r:ramfs_t tclass=fifo_file
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
SELinux: initialized (dev hda5, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 674720k swap on /dev/hda4. Priority:-1 extents:1
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
SELinux: initialized (dev nfsd, type nfsd), uses genfs_contexts
Fire GL built-in AGP-support
Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected SiS 651 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
Power management callback for AGP chipset installed
[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f000207 (hardware caps of chipset)
AGP: Found 2 AGPv2 devices
AGP: Doing enable for AGPv2
[fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f000304 (selected caps)
[fglrx] free AGP = 121909248
[fglrx] max AGP = 121909248
[fglrx] free LFB = 116387840
[fglrx] max LFB = 116387840
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total AGP = 32768
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered

That's all. Again thanx for your time
Ruslombia

ooohh,,,I forgot to tell U that I had a conflict with the mesa library when I installed the fglrx from ATI, so I just --forced .....does it mean that something when bad since the begining?
rpm -ivh fglrx_6_8_0-8.16.20-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx_6_8_0-8.16.20-1 conflicts with file from package xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-31

I've seen some other posts on here referring to problems with the ATI Radeon 9600XT and motherbaord with nForce-based chipsets. My motherboard is an Abit NF7-S 2.0 motherboard, which uses an nForce2.0 chipset.. What should I be aware of with this combination of chipset & video card? Are there any extra steps I have to do to get ATI's driver working?

No, you don't need to be aware of anything in particular. Just be careful when following the directions, because one choice is going to seem totally obtuse. Because you have an nforce chipset, your agpgart needs to be set to nvidia, which being as you have an ATI card, may seem...odd. Just follow the directions and you should be just fine.

Thanks RedShirt - Your ATI guide helped for getting the ATI driver working (specifically, the step about the /dev/shm support). One thing that I think got it working for me was to quit out of X (init 3) before running /usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxconfig..

Hi RedShirt:
I have some questions about the ATI driver installing.
1. I am a bit confused about the AGPGART drivers...........as follows:

* lspci | grep AGP
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)

*The AGP related kernel modules installed on my comp:
I don’t have this directory on my computer (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/char/AGP)
but I think, the module that works for me is in this directory(/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/char/drm)

ls /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/char/drm
drm.ko i810.ko i830.ko i915.ko mga.ko r128.ko radeon.ko sis.ko tdfx.ko

so , when I run the lsmode:
....
....
ppp_generic 39893 6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async
slhc 7105 1 ppp_generic
radeon 76609 2
drm 70101 3 radeon
parport_pc 28933 1
lp 13001 0
parport 40585 2 parport_pc,lp
.....
....
Are those the related modules for AGP?

2.When I tried to install the fglrx...rpm I got this:
rpm -Uvh fglrx_6_8_0-8.16.20-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx_6_8_0-8.16.20-1 conflicts with file from package xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-31

Is it ok if I force the installation of this package?

Again Thanks a lot for your help and time.

Ruslombia

Hi, RedShirt I was wondering about the step in checking agpgart. Im getting a laptop with a PCI-E ATI card. .thus not having an AGP port. .its an X300 mobility. In that case I'm assuming it would be ok to skip that step? Or would 3D work at all for this card? I've not found anywhere stating whether or not it supports this card.. I'll be using Suse 10. .which suse's hardware database says it FULLY supports the X300 mobility. .So basically I'm asking is there anything thing else I'd need to do in the case of having a PCI-E card?

Seraph,
You are getting out of my specialty, not having a PCI-E card, I couldn't really tell you, I know I have seen many posts on LQ here about how to get that working, and most successful in doing so. As for particular steps which differ from those for the AGP cards, I apoligise, I cannot help you with what I do not know.

ruslombia
As for your problem, it does not look like agpgart_sis is running from the portion of the lsmod you posted, which should be. This means, it is likely it isn't loaded, so you will need to (I think, not having that .ko in my section as I compiled my kernel for my intel, I think that is what it is called, but I am not positive.
Your confliction with the mesas is unique to my knowledge. I follow most of the posts around here on the subject, and I am not sure I have seen anyone getting an issue like that, aside from you. You can check the ATI configure logs and see if it is erroring before it hits that point, but it seems like it wouldn't be installing correctly, to me. I would try not to force the install, as it might be damaging to the system. That said, you may be left with no other choice in the end, so you should probably try everything else possible first, before doing something like that. When you do in linux, in my experience you can risk crashing everytime an app using a library you forced in or over is run. Sometimes it works out, other not so much.

Hi Redshirt:
First thanks a lot for your time. There is something I am not really understanding. I have a “Elite Group MB”, with and AGP port, and a Radeon 9200SE AGP 8-X . How come I don’t have the AGP drivers?
Is it a hardware problem?, or it’s an installation problem!! Any Ideas?........
Thanks for you help
Ruslombia

Your motherboard doesn't matter. I have an ECS Elitegroup P4ITA motherboard, its chipset is Intel 850, which means I use the intel-agp driver. If yours is a sis chipset, which you need based on the lspci output and lack of lsmod.

You do have AGP drivers now, generic ones, which doesn't work for allowing 3d or for allowing the ATI drivers to replace the mesas. The mesas will work in any condition because they are full on software rendering. The ATI drivers need a proper hardware chain to give you more power and use hardware rendering. It is a linux problem which is very common. It works, but not optimized without a lot of effort.