Hi all,
First of all this is my fist attempt at Linux so go easy on me

Anyway, I have opensuse 10.3 installed and had my ATI video card installed/working.
After attempting a compiz install, KDE no longer starts on bootup, it is in runlevel init 5.
I have tried running sax2 with various options, for example:
sax2 -m 0=vesa
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
sax2 -r -m 0=radeonold
etc. to no avail...

when I then do a startx, I get the response:

Fatal server error:
Unrecognized option: -xgl
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks!


edit
ok so part of the compiz install required the command: gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl

so I tried disabling it: gnome-xgl-switch --disable-xgl

Low and behold, KDE start!

Sorry for wasting anyones time...

there is a first for everything and welcome to GNU/Linux

your direct rendering is not working

so know you disabled hardware acceleration.
is that something you think you will need?
I must have hardware acceleration otherwise scrolling though web pages is to jerky - that and I play games
do you want hardware acceleration?

Yeah I was trying to get compiz-fusion working...but it seems that Xgl is giving me trouble.
I am able to get hardware acceleration working, but I cannot enable xgl.
I may just have to wait for an updated ATI driver I guess.

could you post the output of

It returned the value "Yes"

looks like I made a mistake - you do hve direct rendering
looks like I nead to do more studing
and look futher into xgl

I'm thinking that it must just be that my ATI 200M just isn't supported any longer by ATI, or that they just don't care about Xgl compatibility. Although I think people may have had the 200M working with openSUSE 10.2? I'll have to check on that one.