Radeon 9600 XT RV350
 

Ive currently moved from Windows XP to SuSe Linux 9.3.

But i seem to be having a problem with my ATI Radeon 9600 XT Drivers. I just cant get the OpenGL and the 3D Acceleration to work on it. Ive followed tutorials etc... and ive found no luck. I cant play any games on SuSe which is the only real let down since ive swapped from Windows. Ive seen posts about other people with the same Graphics card as me and same problem but i just cant figure out whats wrong with it.

With the latest ATI driver installer you should be able to just run it with the generic install and the afterwards if you run fglrxconfig you should be fine.

Just wondering where would i find this fglrxconfig file???

I did WHEREIS and got this....

/usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxconfig /usr/bin/X11/fglrxconfig /usr/X11/bin/fglrxconfig

Just wondering which one it is and how to run it?

Also which ones the latest driver??? Ive seen a few posts where people said to not get the ones from ATI get the ones on the SuSe FTP Server as they were made for and by SuSe.

Grab ATI video drivers on ATI site

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...e&folderID=300

I take it its the ATI Driver Installer 56.1 MB.

Once installed i run the fgrlxconfig?

Yes, pretty much it 'is. Also download manual from the same spot. it will help you to manage install of the drivers
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.16.20.html

Ive done all of that but the 3D Acceleration still wont work....

Its also come up saying i have Multiple Head enabled.....

If possible i can allow you to do Remote Connection to take a look...

to run fglrxconfig just open a terminal and type

su
enter password
fglrxconfig

This should run through the config program to make sure your video driver gets setup correctly. Alterbately go to ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ati

you will find suse's instalation instructions there, although I have had no luck with them since they switched to the new drivers. I just seem to get the kernel module to build and load. Anybody have istructions on manually building it?

Ive already ran the config file. Nothing in there said anything about 3D Acceleration.

Ill take a look at the link u posted.

Look in your X server's log file for any sort of error in initializing. The log file should be /var/log/xorg.0.log

Things to look for are anything related to ati or fglrx with and EE or possibly a WW next to the line. Post what you find. In my case I have the following errors in my log:

I just realized my own stupidity. I forgot to update my kernel-sources when I made the switch from suse 9.3 to 10.0 RC1 this weekend.

This is a common thing to miss for people who are new to linux also. If you have a similar message in your log, then go to YAST, Software Management (Install Software in pre 10.0 I think) Then search for kernel-source and make sure it is installed. If it is already installed, then set it to update in order to make sure your source matches the kernel you are using.

(WW) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version does *not* match driver.
(EE) fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated OpenGL will not work
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe0e81000 at 0xb7b0e000
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

What ive found so far....

Loadsa lines too look through.

Do you have rpms installed from older ati drivers? Go into yast and search for fglrx in software. Uninstall anything that comes up for ati drivers. Then check you make sure you have the kernel-source installed. After you do all that you should be able to get the driver installed fine by creating the distribution specific rpm and installing it with yast. It hase a post-install script that runs during the install in yast that should put in the kernel module.

You can also check for an ati installer log file I think it puts it in the / directory. That should tell you if the installer had trouble compiling the kernel module and why assuming you tried with the generic install method.

My best guess right now though is what I mentioned at the beginning of this post.

I cant seem to get it.... Im confused at what you mean....

I searched for FGLRX and installed the KM_FGLRX and also searched for ATI/ATI Drivers and nothing came up that was installed....

And i reinstalled the driver using the .rpm and nothing still...

Im getting 360 FPS from GLXGEARS.

Like i said i can let you connect via Remote Desktop to help out. Ive only used linux for a week or so now.

You need to remove the KM_FGLRX because that is the kernel module for the OLD ATI drivers. That is the reason you are getting the error regarding mismatched versions.

Here is a breakdown of what you need to do:

1. Remove every package associated with FGLRX
2. Update the kernel_source package
3. run the ATI driver installer (I had more luck using the generic install instead of distribution specific in SuSE 9.3)
4. The installer will install the driver and build the required kernel module on it's own.
5. Now if you reboot, everything should be fine.
6. If everything is not working post any new errors in you X log and I will try to help.