I got brave, too brave it seems. I'm used to the ease of the NVIDIA installers (not to break up the ATI/NV discussion) And I knew this weren't going to be easy but still.. come on :S
SPECS:
2500+ Barton
512mb pc3200 kingston value
80gb Seagate Barracuda
Asrock K7S8X Motherboard
Sapphire 9600xt Fireblade edition (128mb ram)
Anyways here's the deal.. I used rpm2tgz to conver the package. installpkg'ed the resulting package.. followed the custom kernel module guide written and available at ati.com
All of this goes extremely well.. No errors. Just one warning about the non-GPL nature that will "taint the kernel". This was to be expected they say.
After doing my best to set it all up with fglrxconfig I run startx and I get a completely BLACK screen.. Nothing to do. Can't change to another virtual console (CTRL+ALT F2 for instance)
What am I to do, this seems ridiculos that a perfect compile and install would screw up
I set my monitor (a 15" liteon flatscreen, black) to 1024x768 @ 60hz
Right now I moved this comp over to my main rig to use my Viewsonic E71 CRT monitor which runs linux slackware 9.1 with 1280x1024 good and well....
I tried also modprobing for fglrx before issuing startx.. Same result.. Now I never seen something like it... What can I do ? Please help as this is making me rather desperate..
