sigh... 3D acceleration in Suse 9.3
 

Hey all, I'm running Suse 9.3 Pro and I'm trying to get the latest ATI Fire GL drivers installed for the X1 128. Now I have been doing some reading, and the more I read, the more I get confused. I have tried tio run the check.sh script but I get a console permission error. I have also tried to run it as root in run level 3, same error. If I go into the ATI FireGL X1 details it shows

driver info #0:
Xfree86 v4 Server module: Radeon
Driver info #1:
Xfree86 v4 Server module: fglrx
3D support: yes
Extension: dri
XFConfig Entry: Option "UseinternalAGPGART" "no"\nOption "mtrr"
"off"\nOption "VideoOverlay" "on"\nOption "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

I'm assuming I am using Xfree86 and not X.Org 6.8. I treid to install the
fglrx 4_3_0-8.12.10-1.i386.rpm package by using rpm -Uh --force fglrx 4_3_0-8.12.10-1.i386.rpm
but I got a dependency error regarding fglrx.
I've read some guides and as I said its getting more confusing.

Is there anyone running Suse 9.3 Professional that has done this. I don't know if the regular Linux installation guide applies to Suse. Crap, I can't even compose a concise question any more!! :p

I consider myself still a Newbee so I might be severly wrong .. :

As far as I know SuSE 9.3 uses Xorg 6.8.2
The driver & server module .. do they fit together .. arent they for different cards
one for radeon chips ... & the other one for FireGL cards ...
shouldnt there normally be only one ... in this case the fglrx module ... ?
Your options look a bit strange to me ... what about the ATI drivers ... I think there are some for new FireGL cards & such ...

You might find quite a lot of info on the SuSE page .... or search on LQ ....

Hope Ive maybe helped a bit .

Hi,

have a look at the readme on
"ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/suse93/i386/fglrx/8.12.10/"

For me it works fine.

ATI Radeon X800 Pro & SUSE 9.3 Pro

rgds,

Cybers19

That seems to have done the trick, I now have 3D hardware acceleration. Thank you.:)
I now have a new question, when I go to the desktop configuration utility>display settings>size and orientation,
it says my X Server does not support resizing and rotating the display. Please update to version 4.3 or greater. I need the X resize and rotate extension (RANDR) version 1.1 or greater to use the feature.
Is this a sacrifice I have to make to get 3D acceleration?

Also, is there somewhere I could get some information on how the graphics system and subsystem work on Linux, specifically Suse? I would really like to improve my understanding of the linux GUI. I don't want to just follow instructions on how to set it up, but rather be able to troubleshoot an issue on my own. I would like to understand the relationship of X Server, X Windows, and/or Xfree86 and Xorg. Does anyone have a good starting point? Thank you all for your input.